American Doctors unite against the War in Gaza

 

AMERICAN DOCTOR 

by Academy Award-Nominee Poh Si Teng

Runtime 93 min

Year of Completion 2026

Production countries: United States of America, Malaysia, Qatar, Denmark, Palestine

I will never understand why someone would decide to start or participate in a WAR.  As someone who is a generation away from family who suffered through a war, to me the whole thing is senseless.  Nobody ever wins.   

Even if you make money on weapons, you destroy generations of people and destroy the world by the effects of all of the destruction, both physically and emotionally.

This documentary focuses on 3 American Doctors, Dr. Thaer Ahmad, Dr. Mark Perlmutter and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa who go to Gaza during the war in 2025 to try and help at the the Hospital in Gaza while Israel continued to send various weapons of destruction around Gaza and eventually on the hospital where the 3 Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian doctors tried to come together to save the lives of the patients brought in after each attack.

The war becomes more of a political activist exercise and social media push to try and get the truth out into the media than it is to save lives.

Their efforts become futile as the ceasefire pact ends in even bigger horror.

This documentary isn't for the faint of heart.  Children are the ones who pay the highest price.

No child should be exposed to war in any way, shape, or form.  No journalist, doctor, civilian, or institution should become collateral damage in this idiotic game of chicken ordered by greedy and cruel leaders. 

These documentaries are brutal, unflinching, and absolutely essential.  They force you to sit with the full weight of what war actually looks like.  Not the media, political spin, CGI-created videos, or biased opinions from people who aren't even there to bear witness.

No border dispute or ideology justifies the lives erased or the cities reduced to rubble.  

A country isn't just land; it's the people, the memories, the culture, and the lives lived.  War takes all of those memories away and replaces them with pain and suffering.

Wars should never be funded by other countries that continue to perpetuate these wars for years until they obliterate everything and everyone.  And then what, when everything and everything is destroyed,  what are these power-hungry leaders who just order people to do their bidding going to do then? 

THEATRICAL RELEASE BEGINS 
AUGUST 14, 2026
Exclusively at the TIFF Lightbox in Toronto
Followed by VIFF Cinema August 28, 2026

GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS.-the insane chase for a Hamm

 GAIL DAUGHTRY and the CELEBRITY SEX PASS

Director David Wain

Writers David Wain and Ken Marino

2026 · 14A · Comedy · 1h 33m

Ridiculous and Hilarious romp through Hollywood.

Starring: Zoey Deutch, Jon Hamm and John Slattery and celebrity cameos galore.

Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, is a Romp-com,  my new word.  It's a literal romp through Hollywood with gutzy Zoey Deutch as Gail Daughtry literally running through Hollywood trying to "catch the guy".  She is supposed to get married to her high school sweetheart, and they have "that conversation" about who they would give a pass to "be with"... wink wink.  Gail's dream celebrity is Jon Hamm, but thinking that will never happen in her lifetime because she thinks she will have a perfect marriage, so it can't happen.

But when some crazy happenstances happen, and she catches her fiancé exercising his pass with Jennifer Aniston before they walk down the aisle, Jennifer unapologetically states that it was supposed to be ok.

Gail literally runs away and drags her stylist, best friend, and coworker Otto (Miles

Gutierrez-Riley) to LA after he convinces her she needs to use "her pass".

Along the way to find Jon Hamm, the actual actor for real, they literally run into all sorts of calamities and, like a rolling stone, gather some very interesting characters, including John Slattery, who agrees to help them find Hamm even though he hasn't spoken to him in years.

 

They gather a paparazzi photographer and avoid and gather all kinds of crazy people and even have an unexpected meeting with "Weird Al" Yankovic just as they think they are getting close to their goal. 

 

This is an insane, hilarious nod to the Wizard of Oz with references like,
Gail Daughtry = Dorothy Gale.  Otto = Toto.  And you will probably find more easter eggs I didn't even notice in this film.

Jon Hamm really leans into his Jon HAMM and goes for it.  This film was really made for Deutch and Hamm,  an unlikely pairing, but even though the story seems ridiculous, it's so much fun to watch, and you are rooting for Gail all the way.

It shouldn't work, but it does.  Now, if you like serious films with no raunchy references, then this film isn't for you, but if you like to laugh, then you will get sucked in and hope she gets to fulfil her Sex Pass.

It opens in Canada on July 10th, 2026