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Ethan Hawke proudly walks with his daughter Maya to a special screening of The Last Movie Stars

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Ethan Hawke has gone into promo mode for his latest project: the new HBO Max documentary The Last Movie Stars. The acclaimed actor donned a director’s hat to help tell the story of the decades-long romance and partnership between Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. And on Sunday he arrived with his daughter Maya Hawke in his arms for a special screening at the Film Forum, a nonprofit cinema in the Downtown Greenwich Village neighborhood. Family support: Ethan Hawke, 51, arrives for a special screening of his documentary, The Last Movie Stars, holding hands with his daughter Maya Hawke, 24, in New York City Ethan, 51, arrives at the cinema with his daughter Maya Hawke, who is a rising star in the acting field. In a sweet gesture, the couple can be seen holding hands as they walk along the last block or two of the bustling streets. Beaming with pride, the four-time Oscar-nominated actor flashed a big smile as he wore a gray suit and white shirt, which he wore buttonless at the top and

The best sci-fi thriller on HBO Max reveals the brutal truth about life on Mars

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Mars is a hellish sight. Step onto this planet without a protective spacesuit and your eyes will pop out of their sockets as your veins burst and your whole body convulses. At least, that’s the premise of one of the most successful sci-fi films to ever set foot on the red planet. Fortunately, the colony of Mars in Remember Total ‘s imagined future don’t go out too much, stay in a big dome filled with breathable air. But this dome is a different kind of hell. For many people, the conditions are terrible. People are being charged for essential resources and poor radiation shielding has caused genetic mutations. There’s a lot of sci-fi wild and escapism in Remember Total. A talking taxi, a three-breasted woman, a flashing memory implantation machine, a is-it-all-dream? ends, and a psychic rebel leader joins the underbelly of his brother George. But director Paul Verhoven’s Arnold Schwarzennager vehicle also forces us to consider the harsh realities of life on Mars — and how those