Payroll Automation for Movie Productions Using BambooHR Integrations

Movie productions operate in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment where timelines are tight and budgets are closely monitored. Unlike traditional businesses, film projects involve a constantly shifting workforce that includes full-time staff, freelance crew members, union actors, technicians, and short-term contractors. Managing payroll for such a dynamic structure can quickly become complicated.

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Chiennes de vies (Life's a Bitch)

Everyone who grew up with pets knows that they can teach us a lot about life. If we pay close attention, we see that the way we look at them often reflects our own inner demons, beliefs, and insecurities. Pets also show us what loyalty looks like in its purest form. At the same time, they can reveal how easily we grow overly attached, or where our ability to connect with others starts to falter.

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How Female Entrepreneurs Play a Major Role in the Film Industry

by Nancy Fernandez

The global film industry has long been perceived as male-dominated, but over the past few decades, female entrepreneurs have emerged as powerful forces reshaping the landscape. From launching production companies to leading studios, financing films, managing distribution networks, and building streaming platforms, women entrepreneurs are not only participating in cinema—they are redefining it.

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MOVIE REVIEW: How to Make a Killing

It is the kind of dangerous amusement that advances the entire “eat the rich” schtick, even if there’s not a heap of thicker or more brazen commentary with it. Skipping the larger lectures, How to Make a Killing hovers at the amusing level more than a firebranded one. Not everything has to be a societal wrecking ball or message movie.

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MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the Kicking the Seat's YouTube Channel Talking "Dracula"

There have been too many Dracula movies. In fact, there have been over 200. Personally, I think they’ve been tough acts to follow since Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula in 1992. Coming from Frenchman Luc Besson, 2026 brings the closest—and most romance-forward—Dracula since Coppols. Join Ian Simmons of the Kicking the Seat podcast and YouTube channel hosting myself and Cati Glidewell of The Blonde in Front to talk all about Caleb Landry Jones and company in Dracula.

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PODCAST: Episode 227 of "The Cinephile Hissy Fit" Podcast

For their 227th episode, two third-string critics, two painkiller-addicted dads, and two steamin' teachers, Will Johnson and Don Shanahan, arrive at the weekend of the Super Bowl with one more football classic from a generation ago. As the complete opposite to the wholesome Remember the Titans from a recent episode, our hosts cover Oliver Stone's 1999 cinematic energy drink Any Given Sunday.

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MOVIE REVIEW: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

In the end, what is more interesting? Is it the past that made these loose characters, or the future that was foretold to open the movie? One could beg it’s the latter and not the former. The messy hodgepodge of it all feels random for randomness’s sake, and the character behaviors too often match that ridiculousness rather than win you over.

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