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The city of some 133,000 people became a household name in the 1990s as the setting of the black comic crime thriller with the same name. Now it's been ranked as America's fastest-growing boomtown by the financial news outlet 24/7 Wall St. By the end of the century, its population is set to balloon by 238 percent to nearly 430,000 people, the outlet said.

BRIAN VINER: If I compiled my list again today, I still wouldn't have space for The Italian Job, Forrest Gump, The Great Escape, or Titanic, which all of which encouraged readers to write in. By the way, that doesn't mean I don't like or even love those photos (although not Titanic), which makes me wish the iceberg would strike a bit sooner). Here is a list of the Top 20 movies you should have included in my Top 100 list, as well as your reasons for... The Shawshank Redemption (left), Mary Poppins (right), and Saving Private Ryan (inset).

Films from 2024 will disqualify films from Best Picture contention that are deemed not to have enough actors, are from the LGBTQ community, or disabled. If nominated today, a group of Best Picture winners from the decade, such as 2001 champion Gladiator (bottom right) and 1977 winner All the President's Men (bottom left), may lose out on the prestigious award if nominated today. The Godfather, who lived in 1973, and Schindler's List, which was awarded in 1994, may not have fulfilled the requirements.

Although the Academy is made up of over 9,000 voters, viewers are unlikely to agree with which film walks away with the award. For example, the film Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is supposed to take away the top prize. Its highest critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes, 95%, but it ranks in the middle of the pack among its competitors in audience ratings. These are the films that SHOULD win Best Picture if ranked by popular vote, based on fan reviews and ratings.

Lauren Groff's matrix is set in a medieval English abbey. Marie de France, the country's youngest woman, is irritated by being barred from the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine, where she has a strange obsession with psychology. Marie will turn the abbey and its riches into a mighty female fortress shielded by a maze in time. Sophie Mackintosh's uncanny The Water Cure is a dystopian feminist fable. Grace, Lia, and Sky were three sisters who were left alone on an island.

A group of Texas mothers has rents large billboards depicting photographs of their children who have been mistakenly killed by fentanyl-laced tablets. The families are using the big signs around the state to warn others of drug-related problems, as well as pleading with parents to talk to their children about the subject. With eight digital billboards and four vinyl billboards now in use, the billboard advertiser has even lent the families the free space for free.

BRIAN VINER: I'm not sure that after going to see The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, surrounded by the under-tenants, I felt so disconnected from a target audience as I did watching Magic Mike's Last Dance. It can be lonely to look out of a demographic group while still looking in. As the lights dimmed at Tuesday evening's preview screening, a kind of nervous euphory settled over the predominantly female crowd, giving way to whoops of excitement as soon as Channing Tatum, the beefcake's beefcake, appeared in the title role. A young man and his girlfriend were accompanied by a little whoop, followed by a self-conscious grin to announce that it had been, you know, ironic.

To lighten the mood, Claire Foy has revealed that co-star Rooney Mara snuck a fart machine into the set of their latest film Women Talking to lighten the mood. The Crown actress, 38, has also admitted that not being allowed to shave her legs or wearing makeup for the shoot was 'horror.' In a Mennonite colony, the Oscar winner, as well as Jessie Buckley and Frances McDormand, follows the true tale of men drugging and raping women.

Warning: this article contains links to a widespread sexual assault depicted in the film "Women Talking." Do nothing. Keep fighting and keep fighting. Or leave. Those are the three choices that the women of "Women Talking" are confronted with. Based on a true tale, writer and director Sarah Polley's latest film tells the tale of women in a fictional Mennonite colony who discover that some of the men in the area have been illegally drugging them and assaulting them at night for years. If a woman wakes up in pain, or bleeding, the man would tell them they had been beaten by devils or demons. The women learn the truth at the beginning of the film. The eight men are detained, and if nearly all of the colony's men are to bail them out, the women must decide what to do, leaving them with the three options.

Producer Lia Vollack and Michael Cassel announced Monday that the Broadway version of Almost Famous will close on Sunday, January 8. Almost Famous,' like the music it celebrates, will live on,' producers said in a tweeter. "We look forward to the release of the cast recording on March 17 and the numerous productions throughout the region and world for years to come." Previews of the musical, which will be performed at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, began on October 3 and opened on November 3.

Warning: this article contains hints of sexual harassment and assault. Since its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in September, critics have been buzzing over the Oscar prospects of the film "Women Talking." A group of eight Mennonite women who have 48 hours to determine their fate is the film, which is based on Miriam Toews' book of the same name. They've recently discovered that men in their families have been illegally drugging and raping for years. The perpetrators have been arrested, but the women must decide whether they should stay in the community that allowed them to hurt or leave everything they know.