My Best Friend’s Wedding 2: Celine Song to write sequel to hit comedy

The Past Lives and Materialists writer-director is set to pen a follow-up to the dark, Julia Roberts-led 1997 favourite A sequel to 1997 comedy My Best Friend’s Wedding is in the works with Celine Song tapped to write the screenplay. According to Collider , the playwright turned writer-director, who broke out with Oscar-nominated drama Past Lives , has reportedly been hired by Sony as the film enters early development. Continue reading... from Film | The Guardian https://ift.tt/yP2qNA8 via IFTTT

Never Look Away review – Lucy Lawless’s portrait of a fearless news camerawoman

Fascinating documentary about Margaret Moth, whose footage from war zones almost killed her in 1992, lives up to her motto ‘don’t be boring’

When TV news camerawoman Margaret Moth was shot through the face by a Serbian sniper in Sarajevo in 1992, her CNN colleagues were told that it was touch and go. One medic said that her face was so badly injured it might be better if she died. But not only did Moth survive, she went back to the frontline. “She didn’t do less war after she was shot,” remembers one colleague and friend. “She did more.” This documentary about her life, directed by the actor Lucy Lawless, is a fascinating portrait of a woman who had two mottoes: “no regrets” and “don’t be boring”.

With her jet-black hair, thick black eyeliner and army combat boots (which she slept in on the job) Moth looked more like a punk singer than a camera operator. Born and raised in New Zealand, she officially changed her name from Margaret Wilson to Margaret Moth in her 20s and went to court for her right to be sterilised: “I’m not a breeder.” She became the first female news camerawoman in New Zealand, then moved to the US, where she spent weekends skydiving, fooling around with hot long-haired hippies and dropping acid (there’s old home footage to prove it all). Eventually CNN hired her and Moth’s “ballsy” attitude won fans in the military; during the 1990 Gulf war she smoked cigars with General Norman Schwarzkopf.

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