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There is a murder in "On the Ice," but not really a crime. Two best friends try to escape the blame and then to take it. The stories are set in the icebound town of Barrow, Alaska, among three generations of the Inupiats. There's not an igloo or dog team in sight, snowmobiles are used more than cars, and the kids are into hip-hop and a couple of them into meth.

If only because of the setting, this is an uncommonly involving thriller. I could call it a film noir, except that the sun never sets in the film. That makes a perfect contrast with the only other feature filmed in Barrow, the vampire movie " 30 Days of Night " (2007), in which it never rises.

In a film that lives comfortably among the local residents, we meet two pals: the round-faced Qalli ( Josiah Patkotak ), who will be going to college, and the long-faced Aivaaq ( Frank Qutuq Irelan ), who figures he might as well look for a job now that is girlfriend is pregnant. Egasak ( Teddy Kyle Smith ), Qalli's father, is the head of the local search-and-rescue team.

One night, the teens party hearty, some drugs are consumed, and there's a fight. Bad feelings are carried over the next day when Qalli and Aivaaq join their friend James (John Miller) to go seal hunting. This trip ends with James dead. In the meticulous morality of the plot by writer-director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean , responsibility for his death is in a way shared by all three.

MacLean and all of his actors are Inupiat, although the politically incorrect word Eskimo is used in the lyrics of one of their hip-hop songs. Their town seems bereft of entertainment (apparently the bar in "30 Days of Night" has closed). Sometimes the kids climb the water tower to smoke pot. The homes are small and simple, the people decent, and Qalli's father and grandmother provide him with love and support. Aivaaq has it harder; his mom is an alcoholic who hardly stirs from a stupor.

What happens out on the ice, I will leave for you to discover. Qalli and Aivaaq push James' body and his snowmobile into a hole in the ice, return to town, and say he went too fast toward a patch of fog and drove into the water. This leads to a helicopter search for a floating body and a demonstration of local expertise as the pilot uses the direction and speed of the current to calculate where the body should come up.

It doesn't, and people notice how oddly the two boys are behaving. The search-and-rescue officer suspects something and begins to poke around on his own. There is also a nicely handled sequence in which the paranoid Aivaaq moves some bloody evidence from one Dumpster to another. It all comes down to an invitation that the boys cannot refuse: To go on a "hunting trip" with Qalli's father. They're not too sure what he might be hunting for.

Unforced conviction permeates every scene of "On the Ice." The local actors are persuasive (guilt almost paralyzes Qalli), and their lives seem limited by the opportunities in Barrow. Qalli's plans for college are the pride not only of his family but probably of many other residents. This bleakness provides a backdrop for what is essentially a morality play, in which MacLean shows the characters trying to decide how to do the right thing. In one stunning moment, Qalli's father leaves them with a cold moral choice, and MacLean finds impressive suspense in it.

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'On The Ice': Boys With A Secret, And A Chill Inside

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In isolated Barrow, Alaska, a fight between three boys over a girl turns violent, leaving Aivaaq (Frank Qutuq Irelan, left) and Qalli (Josiah Patkotak) with a secret that tests the bonds of their friendship. Silverwood Films hide caption

• Director: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
• Genre: Drama, Thriller
• Running Time: 96 minutes

With: Frank Qutuq Irelan, Josiah Patkotak, John Miller

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In Barrow, Alaska, they must be dancing in the streets. For the second time this month, a tiny town that sits north of the Arctic Circle has become a marquee name.

Along with Drew Barrymore and three stranded whales, Barrow became the unlikely star of the inspirational mammal-rescue picture Big Miracle . Now it serves as an arena for teen angst in the sympathetic feature debut of a young Inupiat filmmaker, Andrew Okpeaha MacLean.

In most respects, On the Ice is the kind of straight-ahead, underprivileged-teen drama beloved of Sundance audiences. Packed with teachable moments and a mostly non-pro cast, the film centers on two best friends who get into deep trouble when a fight with a third boy over a girl turns ugly.

The terrible accident that follows becomes a poorly hidden secret that keeps shame, guilt and long-festering resentment on the boil between two very different young men bound by old loyalties. Qalli (Josiah Patkotak) is a stolid, college-bound good boy from a supportive home, while his childhood buddy, Aivaaq (Frank Qutuq Irelan), struggles with the legacy of an alcoholic father who died young and the inattention of a mostly dead-drunk mother.

Crystal meth also hovers and occasionally moves in to occupy center stage. But it's a minor player that MacLean rarely uses; he's not in this to clout us over the head with quack sociology, or to define or demean the community in which he grew up.

Indeed, it's not booze or drugs that threaten the young of this tribe so much as the icy landscape. It's a cinematographer's gift — the director of photography is Lol Crawley, who also shot Lance Hammer's arresting extreme-indie Ballast — but a color-drained nightmare that might drive anyone to drink or drugs. (Or the impulsive violence that drives this film's bare-bones plot.)

Big Miracle 's running joke was the lucrative tourism bonanza that came when the media flocked to cover the whale rescue, but On the Ice can't afford such easy uplift. Just as an inner-city slum hems in its dwellers, so Barrow is marooned in an endless sea of white ice, relieved only by the bright red of the boys' snowmobiles — and of the blood that flows from a fatal knife wound. No wonder that an Eskimo variant of hip-hop — alternating on the soundtrack with an eerie lunar score by Czech-born composer iZLER — serves as an exuberant survival anthem for the youth of Barrow, just as mutant rap forms do for marginalized native youngsters from North America to New Zealand.

Perhaps it takes an insider to tell a hopeful native tale without recourse to goo or mawkish wallowing. However depleted by the ills that plague a region dependent on a single industry that's threatened by eco-collapse, MacLean's Barrow clings to the vestiges of a once-vibrant ritual life. Staggering under the collective burden of poverty and the compound troubles it brings, the town's damaged families — not least its feisty, take-no-crap girls, pregnant or not — still gather organically for the enchantingly named "sing-spiration" that will carry a dead member to the next world.

Many of their ceremonies may be gone or eroded beyond recognition, yet a father finds an inventive way to create a rite of passage for a suffering son and his friend, each groping for ways to tell the truth and move on. Where to, and how it works out, MacLean won't tell us. But it's a relief to know that this is one corner of America where helicopter parenting is not an option. Don't all migrate at once.

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‘Antarctica: A Year on Ice’ movie review

" Antarctica: A Year on Ice " is not your normal nature documentary. Shot in Antarctica over the course of 10 years, it includes, as one might hope, some breathtaking time-lapse photography of moving clouds, ice, shadows and lights. This last category includes not just the psychedelic atmospheric phenomenon known as the aurora australis, or the southern lights, but the normally dependable sun — which never dips below the horizon for several months of Antarctic summer and then disappears all winter. Keep in mind that the seasons here are reversed from what we know in the Northern Hemisphere.

What makes “Antarctica” unusual is that it focuses not on wildlife, despite a few requisite scenes of penguins, but on people. First-time feature documentarian Anthony Powell, a longtime year-round denizen of Antarctica, where his day job involves setting up and maintaining communications equipment, turns his lens largely on the “winter-overs” like himself — meaning the hardy few workers who stick around when the highly transitory population drops from around 5,000 in summer to below 700, along with the falling temperatures.

These self-described eccentrics, who include Powell's wife, Christine, come on camera to talk about what living year-round in Antarctica is like. They're not what Powell calls the "people you see on the National Geographic Channel," but the firemen, mechanics, office administrators, retail store clerks, pilots and chefs who keep McMurdo Station running. (That's the U.S. research center where much of the film was shot.)

Antarctica is a starkly handsome place, to be sure, but its hardships seem to take some getting used to, judging by the comments of the film’s subjects, all of whom readily admit that 12 months at the bottom of the world isn’t for everyone. Homesickness, cabin fever and something called polar T3 syndrome — a drop in the level of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine, causing forgetfulness and other cognitive impairments — make a career in Antarctica a difficult choice for most.

Then there’s the weather, which includes, over the average winter, one category 1 storm every week, one category 3 storm every month and one category 5 storm every season. This is not the place for people who hate snow. Powell includes some incredible footage of living quarters piled high with drifting snow — blown in through imperceptible cracks around the windows.

It’s also surprisingly poignant to hear people rattle off the simple things they miss, such as fresh cauliflower, a bath and the sound of falling rain.

That’s really what makes “Antarctica” so moving. Yes, it features some of the most rapturous footage of calving glaciers and ice floes — alternately freezing and thawing — that you’re likely to have seen (much of it captured on equipment designed and built by the filmmaker). But it is the simple glimpses of ordinary life in an extraordinary place that are the most stirring moments in the film.

PG. At Landmark’s E Street Cinema. Contains some mildly disturbing thematic elements and a bit of coarse language. 91 minutes.

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Moving story of the 1980 Olympic hockey team.

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What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

Kids will uncover a remarkable true story about a

Perseverance and dedication can lead to the most e

Through hard work, perseverance, and an exhausting

Unsurprisingly, there is a lot of hockey violence

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Occasional profanity. ""Ass," "bastards," "hell."

Players drink beer in a bar, and one of the player

Parents need to know that Miracle is a 2004 movie based on the true story of the unlikely Gold Medal victory of the United States hockey team during the 1980 Winter Olympics. Unsurprisingly, there's frequent hockey violence during the games and during a practice in which two players who went to rival colleges…

Educational Value

Kids will uncover a remarkable true story about a motley crew of Olympic athletes. They will learn about the history of this era (particularly interesting with the Olympics as a global backdrop), the gas crisis, lingering resentment of Watergate and Vietnam, the end of President Jimmy Carter's term, Cold War hostilities, the Iranian Hostage Crisis, and the Russian occupation of Afghanistan.

Positive Messages

Perseverance and dedication can lead to the most extraordinary victories. The can-do spirit of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team and their completely unexpected victory over the seemingly unstoppable Soviet Union hockey team rekindled a patriotic fervor in America that had dissipated in the 1970s backdrop of Watergate, the end of the Vietnam War, and the Iranian Hostage Crisis.

Positive Role Models

Through hard work, perseverance, and an exhausting practice regimen, Coach Herb Brooks trained his players to be gold medal champions in a time before professional players were allowed to compete in the Olympics. His coaching methods brought out the best in the players. The players themselves, pushed to the brink of mental and physical exhaustion, push themselves as hard as they can for the sake of themselves, their coach, the team, and ultimately, their country.

Violence & Scariness

Unsurprisingly, there is a lot of hockey violence in this movie. Players check, crosscheck, slash, trip, and knock each other onto the ice. When the U.S. Team is trying to coalesce, two players from rival college teams get into a fight on the ice; Coach Brooks allows the fight to go on so the two rivals can get their hatred for each other out of their system.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

During a game, some players on the bench of the U.S. team point out attractive women in the stands and how they would like to take them home.

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Occasional profanity. ""Ass," "bastards," "hell." During a hockey match before the Olympics at Madison Square Garden, fans unfurl a banner that reads, "Soviets Get the Puck Out of Afghanistan."

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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

Players drink beer in a bar, and one of the players wants to fight a former rival who walks in but is held back. Drinking at a Christmas party.

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Parents need to know that Miracle is a 2004 movie based on the true story of the unlikely Gold Medal victory of the United States hockey team during the 1980 Winter Olympics. Unsurprisingly, there's frequent hockey violence during the games and during a practice in which two players who went to rival colleges throw down the gloves and get into a fistfight on the ice. Coach Brooks allows the fight to go on so the rival players can get their hatred for each other out of their system and they can start working together as teammates. While there is certainly a "Hollywood" feel to what was an extraordinary event, the movie also pulls no punches in showing the intense training and practice regimen Coach Brooks put his players through; after a loss before the Olympics begin, Brooks has his players skate a drill in which they skate as fast as they can from the goal line to the blue line and back until some begin to fall or vomit from exhaustion. Occasional profanity includes ""ass," "bastards," and "hell." During a hockey match before the Olympics at Madison Square Garden, fans unfurl a banner that reads, "Soviets Get the Puck Out of Afghanistan." Overall, this is an inspiring presentation of a team who transcended their sport and helped make Americans believe in themselves and their country again. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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Sportscaster Al Michaels unforgettably called out "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!" as the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team beat the Russians. They then went on to win the Gold Medal. And so the team, the last group of amateurs sent by the United States to play ice hockey, has been known ever after as the "Miracle on Ice." MIRACLE is a meticulous recreation of the training, strategy, and the key moments of the team's path to Olympic gold.

Is It Any Good?

The silver medal goes to Kurt Russell 's fine performance as coach Herb Brooks. Russell is willing to be unattractive in appearance and behavior to convey Brooks' famously tough and withholding style. As this movie shows, miracle is the very last word to be used to describe this team. It's better than a miracle because it's the story of a team that succeeded through heart and hard work and commitment. If it's a miracle, it's in the "God helps those who help themselves" category. This isn't an "up close and personal" saga. You're not going to get to find out all the quirky personal details of the members of the team. This is a movie for hard-core hockey fans.

The movie is less successful when it gives us the inevitable toll-on-the-family scenes, even with the magnificent Patricia Clarkson as Mrs. Brooks, explaining that just because Herb is coaching the Olympic team doesn't mean that he can shirk his responsibilities at home. And the movie's weakest point is its attempt to make the team's triumph too much of a symbol. It spends too much time trying to convey the sense of the era, with an opening credit sequence of clips showing lines at the gas station and Jimmy Carter's speech about how depressed everyone was. Yes, the Miracle on Ice was immensely satisfying at a moment when America needed some heroes. But trying to re-create that mood takes away from the genuine splendor of the team's achievement, which is more than enough on its own.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

Families can talk about how Brooks picked the team he wanted. He was not much of a team player himself when it came to the committee members. Families could also talk about the coaches and teachers and mentors who have inspired them to do their best -- probably not always the ones who were the nicest.

Throughout the movie, there are references to the recent and current events of that time. There is mention of Watergate, the end of the Vietnam War, gas shortages, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iranian Hostage Crisis, and excerpts from what came to be known as Jimmy Carter's "malaise" speech to the American people. What purpose does this historical backdrop serve? How does it heighten the stakes of the story?

How does this movie compare with other "sports underdog" movies? What are some other examples of this genre?

Movie Details

• In theaters : February 6, 2004
• On DVD or streaming : May 18, 2004
• Cast : Kurt Russell , Noah Emmerich , Patricia Clarkson
• Director : Gavin O'Connor
• Inclusion Information : Female actors
• Studio : Walt Disney Pictures
• Genre : Drama
• Topics : Sports and Martial Arts , History
• Character Strengths : Perseverance
• Run time : 130 minutes
• MPAA rating : PG
• MPAA explanation : language and some rough sports action
• Last updated : May 5, 2024

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• Kurt Russell as Herb Brooks; Eddie Cahill as Jim Craig; Michael Manenuto as Jack O’Callahan; Patrick O’Brien Demsey as Mike Eruzione; Patricia Clarkson as Patti Brooks; Noah Emmerich as Craig Patrick

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Movie Review

In 1980, a ragtag team of amateur hockey players, led by Herb Brooks, a drill-sergeant of a coach, pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Olympic history by beating the Soviet Union in Lake Placid, N.Y. Miracle chronicles their path to Olympic gold, but it isn’t a hockey movie per se. It’s a film about the intense personality and tactics of Coach Brooks as he selects and trains his men.

Brooks stresses chemistry over talent (“I’m not looking for the best players; I’m looking for the right ones”). He preaches hockey basics, teamwork and heart. He knows his players will never be the most gifted in the world (“You don’t have enough talent to win on talent alone”), but he’s committed to molding them into the best conditioned team on the ice.

This discipline combined with a sense of team-as-a-family (a significant obstacle, initially), plus a bit of destiny is what keeps the United States from experiencing Olympic embarrassment. Of course, before the big game nobody really believes the U.S. team will hear the “Star Spangled Banner” during the award ceremony, they just don’t want to get humiliated. Coach Brooks bucks popular opinion and refuses to shoot for anything short of everything. “If we play [the Soviets] 10 times they might win nine,” he tells his team, “But not this game.”

Positive Elements

Coach Brooks loves his family, but he’s a driven man who easily leans too far on the side of devoting time to job/hockey/Olympics and not enough to Patti and their two children. This domestic conflict of interest could be fodder for after-movie discussions on what is, and what is not a healthy balance. Furthering that dialogue are Patti’s personality and responses. While willing to let her husband’s compulsive coaching style continue, she’s no doormat, and she knows when to put her foot down (“Don’t ever criticize me for caring about you”). Still, in fairness, the movie highlights these issues better than it answers questions about them.

In one scene, Coach plays table hockey with his son. In another, he apologizes to his wife for not talking to her about the time commitment required by coaching, and tells her sincerely that whatever the outcome of his career, it would be meaningless without her involvement.

In addition to his family, Brooks cares about his team. His coaching style is rough and often abrasive, and early on, he tells potential players he’s not their “friend.” Still, he agonizes over having to release a player in order to get down to the maximum team size of 20.

Elsewhere, player Jim Craig’s special bond with his father is encouraging. The team doctor laments the fact that there’s “so much hate and fear” between the United States and the Soviet Union, before pointing out that the U.S. hockey team has its own “cold war” between players from Minnesota and those from Boston. Profanity mars the sentiment, but Coach Brooks stresses that his team is playing for the country, not their own personal goals (“The name on the front [of your jersey] is a h— of a lot more important than the one on the back”). To prove his press conferences are not about his own ego (as implied by a reporter), Brooks sends his assistant coach to the follow-up meeting.

Spiritual Elements

A few fans and one player are shown praying during the big game. Coach Brooks encourages his team to greatness by appealing to a bigger—some may assume Divine—plan (“You were born to be hockey players … you were meant to be here tonight”).

Sexual Content

A newsreel clip from the early ‘70s shows a naked hippie (rear view). Rebuking two players involved in a brawl, Coach Brooks describes their antics as “a couple of monkeys trying to hump a football.” U.S. players check out girls at the Olympics (nothing overtly sexual is said or implied).

Violent Content

Hockey is a rough sport and Miracle doesn’t soften the blows during game time. Two players duke it out on the ice (Brooks let it happen) over unsettled “cheap shots” during a game they competed in in college. One winds up with a bloody nose. An angry Brooks turns over a table in a locker room.

Crude or Profane Language

More than 30 mild profanities are included here, mostly “h—.” There are also a few uses of “crap,” “screw,” “ass” and “bastards.” God’s name is misused a half-dozen times. Jesus’ once. A banner at a hockey match reads, “Soviets get the puck out of Afghanistan.”

Drug and Alcohol Content

The U.S. hockey players socialize in a bar where they drink beer. At a team Christmas party, players and Coach celebrate the occasion by downing suds (most are shown holding beer bottles even though only a few are seen taking swigs). No one is intoxicated. Cigarette smoke drifts upward at a meeting of Olympic Committee members. A newsreel clip shows Billy Carter drinking his signature beer.

Other Negative Elements

After being worked to near total collapse, one player spits up (more saliva than vomit).

Teens will identify with these everyman athletes even if they can’t relate to Brook’s 1970s plaid slacks. And parents can capitalize on the film’s attention to family issues, the pursuit of excellence and the ethics of competition. They can even turn some of the movie’s socio-political references into an impromptu civics lesson.

Content-wise, Miracle skates along pretty smoothly for the most part, but the ice gets a tad rough and rutted when it comes to language. So families hoping it would follow the same restrained path taken by Disney’s The Rookie will be disappointed.

Ultimately, Coach Brooks proves that he’s no saint. His temper gets the best of him. His workouts border on abuse. And his professional obsession creates conflict at home. But it’s this balancing act of job, team, success, wife, children and authority—and how best to treat people along the way—that provides a relatable microcosm of everyday life and everyday pressures that we all have to face. Here, it just so happens to be packaged in a motion picture about an Olympic hockey team.

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‘ice on fire’: film review | cannes 2019.

Leonardo DiCaprio narrates and produced 'Ice on Fire,' a documentary directed by Leila Connors that lays out how the Arctic's melting ice caps affect us all.

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Actor-producer and activist Leonardo DiCaprio , director Leila Connors and writer-consultant Thom Hartmann, who all collaborated on the 2007 environmental documentary The 11th Hour , team up again for another measured, well-illustrated and highly persuasive examination of climate change, scheduled for broadcast on June 11 on HBO.

Showing theatrically first as a special screening at Cannes, where DiCaprio was in town with competition entry  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , this feature-length film essay focuses, as the rather too on-the-nose title might suggest, on the swiftly melting polar ice cap in the Arctic and the horrifying impacts that situation is already having on the planet.

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However, the filmmakers put considerable emphasis here on the rise of renewable energy sources and new advances in carbon sequestration. These technologies offer hope that the world might, just might , be able to keep the global rise in temperature to a still dangerous two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, as committed to by the Paris Agreement. That’s probably a good accentuate-the-positive tactic to take for a television audience, although some might argue that the thrust of Ice on Fire ‘s argument is too reassuring given how high the stakes are and how bad the data actually looks. For those who agree with David Wallace-Wells, author of the harrowingly well-researched recent book The Uninhabitable Earth , that the situation is “worse, much worse, than you think,” then Ice on Fire can seem a little too cheery and hopeful that an assortment of science boffins, some of whom appear here and eloquently explain their work, will save us.

Putting quibbles about pitch and approach aside, then as a beginners’ guide to Arctic thaw and its consequences this is pretty exemplary stuff. Instead of anchoring the explanation around a dominant, often onscreen TED-talk-cum-storyteller like campaigner Al Gore or naturalist David Attenborough, Ice on Fire keeps the narration (only heard) from DiCaprio to a judicious medium, bedding it over stunning high-definition footage, often shot with drones or using time-lapse techniques, under the direction of cinematographer Harun Mehmedinovic. Mostly composed of original footage but with bits of archive material thrown in as needed, the film travels to the Arctic, Alaska, Norway, Iceland, Costa Rica and the fire-ravaged ruins of Northern California to tell its story.

Connors mostly draws from a pool of scientists for her interviewees, particularly ones working in the field gathering evidence of rising CO2 levels and other worrying metrics, and each of them seems to have mastered the art of explaining their work in manageable, clearly summarized sound bites. But the passion from all is also evident, as well as the horror, especially among those not working specifically in research, such as two firemen, Tony Gossner and Mark Basque, who sorrowfully recount how the recent fires in Santa Rosa were unlike anything they’d seen in their careers. Elsewhere, hope is generated by the efforts of fisherman Bren Smith, who marvels lovingly at the potential of kelp farming, while chef Itef Vita in Los Angeles shows just how glorious and fruitful an urban garden can be.

As strong as Ice on Fire is on people and landscapes, arguably its strongest achievement lies in the presentation of onscreen graphics. Like they say, a picture can be worth a thousand words, and in this instance the charts and animated effects presented do more to clarify the scale of the challenge than all the swooping shots of windmills and solar farms put together. 

Production companies: HBO, Tree Media, Appian Way With: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Frances Morse, Patricia Lang, Pieter Tans, Jim White, Thom Hartmann, Michael Mann, Guthmundur Ingi Guthbrandsson, Catherine Lund Myhre, Peter Wadhams, Elizabeth Brown, Tony Gossner, Mark Basque, Daniel Rothmann, Janine Benyus, Ottmar Edenhofer, Brigette Knopf, Paul Hawken, Linwood Gill, Raymond Baltar, Kate Scow, Itef Vita, Bren Smith, Stasa Puskaric, Martin Hermann, Gabrielle Petron, Anna Robertson, Don Schreiber, Juergen Mienert, Pavel Serov, Katey Walter Anthony, Christoph Gebald, Jan Wurtzbacher, Daniel Nocera, James Murray, Chris Milne, Neil Kermode Director: Leila Connors Producers: Leonardo DiCaprio, Leila Connors, Mathew Schmid Executive producers: George DiCaprio, Roee Sharon Peled, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Jennifer Davisson Co-executive producer: Philip Watson Director of photography/co-producer: Harun Mehmedinovic Editor: Leila Connors Music: Jeremy Soule, Jonah Johnson Venue: Cannes Film Festival (Special Screening) Sales: HBO

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When a Prince visits a small town to investigate a business deal, he gets more than he bargained for when he meets a former Olympic skater. A Royal Christmas on Ice aired on Great American Family (GAC) on November 5th. Here's a look at the story and my review.

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Abigail (Anna Marie Dobbins) is a former Olympic ice skater who now runs an ice skating school that trains the next generation of Olympic hopefuls. With her business in need of some help, and the rink she uses possibly closing, she has to figure out how to turn things around.

Prince John (Jonathan Stoddard) is bored with his royal life and wants something that is all his own and not tied to his family. So he secretly travels to the United States to search for a hockey team that he can purchase. Daryl (William Baldwin) is a business agent helping him find the perfect opportunity. He recommends looking at a small town where he can get a good deal on the team and the rink.

Prince John bumps into Abigail when he gets to town. When the two collide it causes Abigail to drop a cake that she just picked up for her mother's party that night. John sets out to make things right and he brings a new cake to the party. It's clear that he is smitten with Abigail right away, but it takes a while for her to warm up to him.

A Royal Christmas on Ice Review

If you've read any of my other articles, or looked at my ranking for the Hallmark Christmas movies this year , you know that I tend to love a British-themed movie. Not that A Royal Christmas on Ice is British themed since it doesn't take place overseas. But, it does involve a theme about royals and a guy with an English accent. Too bad neither of those things could save this movie.

The Verdict: Snore, What a Bore. This movie was not good. The pace was slow, and it lacked any emotion or spark. I also couldn't get behind the couple at all. She was so miserable throughout much of the movie that I can't imagine the Prince being interested in her at all. Let alone using the L word with her. Which yes, spoiler alert he does tell her he loves her. This was another thing I felt was absurd. A royal Prince who is probably very reserved wouldn't tell a woman he loves her after a couple of days. I just can't see it happening.

Not that I expect a GAC Christmas movie to be realistic, but there does have to be something that draws me into the story. Which brings me to the second big issue. I have a hard time getting behind the premise of the movie. A Prince is going to own a hockey team in the United States? Seems pretty far fetched to me. Another type of business perhaps, but a hockey team? Seems silly to me and not something that I can see happening at all.

A Royal Christmas on Ice Recap

With so many Christmas movies to watch each season, I think it's safe to say that A Royal Christmas on Ice is one to skip. There really is nothing to get excited about with this movie. No stars, or great acting to draw you in. And, it lacked the emotion and heart needed to make the movie touching or exciting. There are no big Christmas-y scenes, or situations that pull at your heartstrings and really draw you into the movie. Just another mediocre Christmas movie from the Great American Family. I'm hoping that the upcoming movies scheduled for the Thanksgiving weekend will be more successful, because this one was very disappointing.

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The film is a slim story about a girl named Bea (Cailey Fleming) who helps a crank named Cal (Ryan Reynolds) play matchmaker. Oh, and Bradley Cooper is a glass of ice water.

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The big “IF” — as in “imaginary friend” — in John Krasinski’s treacly kids dramedy is a grizzly-sized purple goon who goes by the name Blue. The boy who conjured him was colorblind, he explains. Blue (voiced by Steve Carell) is one of dozens of dreamed-up creatures in Brooklyn who long for their now-grown BFFs to remember they exist.

At the Memory Lane Retirement Community underneath Coney Island, there’s also a pink alligator (Maya Rudolph), a superhero dog (Sam Rockwell), a worn teddy (Louis Gossett Jr.), a retro cartoon butterfly (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), a robot (Jon Stewart), an astronaut (George Clooney), a glass of ice water (Bradley Cooper), a gummy bear (Amy Schumer), a unicorn (Emily Blunt), a flower (Matt Damon), a cat in an octopus costume (Blake Lively), a ghost (Matthew Rhys), a soap bubble (Awkwafina), some green slime (Keegan-Michael Key), and an invisible blob who the credits claim is none other than Brad Pitt.

What’s more impressive: Krasinski’s imagination or the very real friends in his Rolodex?

Most of these characters merely stroll through the frame to say hello, or whine to each other in group therapy. Yet these celebrity cameos take up about as much space as the plot, a gentle, slim story about an unflappable 12-year-old girl named Bea (Cailey Fleming) who helps a crank named Cal (Ryan Reynolds) play matchmaker for the lonely IFs.

If — and this is a rhetorical if — you’re still traumatized by the last shot of Bing Bong, the forgotten imaginary friend in Pixar’s “Inside Out,” breathe easy. There’s no existential threat (or narrative tension) about what might happen if the goofy gang remains consigned to oblivion. Palling about with kids again just sounds nice.

Bea, a solemn preteen with stick-straight hair, is the only child able to see all of the IFs, which is hard to reconcile with the fact that she also seems like the oldest little girl in the world; Reynolds, her foil, is regularly cast as the world’s most immature man, although here he’s been dialed down to a benevolent grouch. With her mother dead, her father (Krasinski) in the hospital, and her grandmother (Fiona Shaw) distracted watching Jimmy Stewart’s “Harvey” on TV, Bea is free to roam the streets of New York — which, to the fellow kids in the audience, might be as extraordinary as all of the shots of her strolling slowly through bedazzled fantasies. (The standout, odd as it sounds, is a musical number set to Tina Turner’s “Better Be Good to Me,” that’s wholly divorced from its erotic context.)

Any child over five will predict the Keyser Söze twist in Bea and Cal’s relationship. But this is a film that spells out its intentions for an audience still learning its ABCs, a film where Michael Giacchino’s misty violins never stop insisting how to feel, where Krasinski’s goofy dad literally wears a heart on his chest.

Krasinski has the worthy goal of making a children’s movie with an air of prestige — like his characters, he’s striving to be remembered long past opening weekend — and so the cinematographer Janusz Kaminski obligingly fills the screen with handsome images of spiral staircases and leather-bound books. Still, only two scenes accomplish the transcendence Krasinski is after, and both involve the simplest of all special effects: a shot of an adult human being that asks us to use our own imaginations to see the child inside.

IF Rated PG. Running time: 1 hour 44 minutes. In theaters.

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“The script penned by Brooke is beautiful and delicious and can only be elevated more by Natalie and Jamie’s immense talent and vision,” Cooke said. “To be working with this brilliant bunch is a dream.”

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“Writing this movie for Olivia was an incredible experience, and I immediately resonated with Nathalie’s inspired and visionary take on the material,” Baker saiid. “I couldn’t be more thrilled that Nathalie, Olivia and Jamie are going to bring this story and these characters that I love so deeply to life.”

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The movie will star Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.

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• Marvel's The Fantastic Four cast keeps growing, now including Natasha Lyonne alongside other talented actors like Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby.
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Casting just doesn't seem to stop for the next big project in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Natasha Lyonne , best known for her roles in the television shows Poker Face, Russian Dolls, and Orange is the New Black, is joining the cast of Marvel's The Fantastic Four, according to Deadline . Details on Lyonne's character are being kept hidden in the Baxter Building, but she will join the preivously announced cast of Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/the Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/the Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/the Thing.

Beyond not much being known about Lyonne's character, not much is known about the plot of The Fantastic Four at all. However, it has been reported that the film will take place in the 1960s, and will see the heroic quartet face off against the planet-eating villain Galactus, played by Ralph Ineson . Other members of the film include Paul Walter Hauser and John Malkovich in unnamed roles, as well as Julia Garner , who will portray Shalla-Bal, a version of the Silver Surfer. So while Lyonne's character may not be known - yet - she is clearly in the company of good actors.

On the creative side, The Fantastic Four will be directed by WandaVision's Matt Shakman off a screenplay by Jeff Kaplan, Ian Springer, Eric Pearson and Josh Friedman . WandaVision's Peter Cameron has also contributed to the script. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is producing the film alongside Nick Pepin and Grant Curtis.

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This isn't the first time, technically, that Lyonne has been in a superhero film. She previously voiced the character of Merton in the Warner Bros. and DC animated film DC League of Super-Pets. Her character, who is graced with super speed, later becomes the pet of the Flash. But The Fantastic Four will mark Lyonne's entrance into both the MCU and the world of live-action superhero stardom. While many recent DC films have been critically panned, League of Super-Pets was mostly well-received and has an 88% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Beyond this, there are a number of roles that Lyonne is recognizable from. She first broke onto the scene with roles in classic 1990s films like Dennis the Menace and American Pie, later garnering a notable role in Scary Movie 2. She is just as well-known on the television side, portraying the hardened but streetwise prisoner Nicky Nichols in the aforementioned Netflix series Orange is the New Black . Lyonne portrayed Nicky for all seven seasons of the show, earning an Emmy nomination in 2014. She then went onto co-create the series Russian Doll for Netflix, likewise garnering critical acclaim for her Groundhog Day -like role as software engineer Nadia. Lyonne would become the showrunner for the second season before teaming with Rian Johnson to star in the case-of-the-week mystery series Poker Face, which also proved highly popular and earned a second season renewal in 2023 .

The Fantastic Four will be released in theaters on July 25, 2025.

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