The Back Garden – A Review
The Back Garden is a promising independent short that could use a little pruning. The premise is intriguing enough: Lorenz (played by Melanie Gretchen,...
Deals, Devils, and Dante: Nihal Singhsachathet on Crafting Just the Worst Time
In Just the Worst Time, filmmaker Nihal Singhsachathet offers a sharp and surreal twist on the classic Faustian bargain, where even the Devil can't...
High Spirits and Animated Truths: A Conversation with Morgan Young on Stoned for Christmas
Blazing past convention, Stoned for Christmas is a kaleidoscopic animated short that combines weed culture, queer joy, and visual experimentation in one irreverent, emotionally...
Threading Tension: An Interview with Louise V. Mason on Sewing a Nightmare
In Sewing a Nightmare, fashion and fear are stitched together in a surreal, genre-bending exploration of isolation, ambition, and anxiety. We sat down with the...
April: From Abortion to Birth
April, directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili from Georgia, shares an astonishingly realistic image with its audience; a compact, raw, harsh, and gripping film about abortion...
Turnip Faced C-Word – Bring Them Down Review
When you’re committing an act of vengeance, you really hope that final triumph will be the cherry on top to set everything right. But...
Freaky Tales – A Review
Every so often, a film will be released that is essentially a collection of short films. In film school, we only watched Martin Scorcese’s...
Paging the On-Call Doctor – Medical Dramas Rising on Streaming
Medical shows have been a mainstay of network television for decades, from soap operas like General Hospital (the longest-running scripted series in the US)...
Police Brutality Can Be Fun – Deva Review
Police brutality is a pervasive evil with a long history. But in Deva (new to Netflix as of March 28th), this evil is deployed...
Disney’s Snow White Never Meets the Need for Storytelling
Disney's Snow White, the latest live-action adaptation from Walt Disney Pictures, represents an ambitious yet contentious retelling of a cherished fairy tale. Directed by...
Black Bag: Soderbergh’s new spy movie would have been better as a miniseries?
Berlin's historic Delphi Palast cinema is famous for one of the most iconic scenes in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009). Its monumental colonnaded façade,...
Death of a Unicorn – A Review
I grew up loving Jurassic Park; it was my favourite movie as a kid, and I’m still instantly transported to Isla Nublar when I...
Time, Memory, and the Art of Getting Lost: Miguel Gomes on Grand Tour
In this conversation with acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes, we explore the layered world of Grand Tour, a film that slips between 1918 and...
Mid-Century Modern – A Review
The multi-cam sitcom is a staple of television, beginning in the late 1940s and becoming popularized with shows like I Love Lucy in the...
No Return – Yellowjackets Review Season 3
From the pilot episode of Yellowjackets (created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson), audiences were presented with duel timelines in 1996 and 25 years...
Love, Anarchy, and Cinema: A Conversation with Outi Rehn of the Helsinki International Film...
The Helsinki International Film Festival, known as Love & Anarchy, has carved out a unique space in the global film landscape, celebrating daring and unconventional storytelling....
Championing Queer Cinema: An Interview with Bard Ydén of the Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival
In this conversation, Bard Ydén, the festival director of Norway’s only queer film festival, discusses the origins of the Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival, its approach...
Adolescence: Do You Know Who Your Children Are?
Adolescence, the latest effort from one take wonder Philip Barantini (Boiling Point), has been widely lauded as the best drama of the year. A...
Supernatural: The Power of a Shaman
Can a shaman heal someone from a distance? This is the question posed by the documentary Supernatural, which follows a character who was healed remotely...
Black Bag: Sex, Lies, and Satellites
Black Bag, the latest feature from the seemingly tireless Stephen Soderbergh, is the kind of smart, stylish thriller we see too few of these...
Long Bright River – A Review
One of the most enduring genres of television are “cop shows,” whether procedurals or crime dramas. Even in the wake of horrific cases of...
Souleymane’s Story: Cycling Around Paris to Find Solace and Safety
Boris Lojkine, the French director whose film Hope won the SACD Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and narrated a migrant story, has...
Montreal Critics Week: A New Space for Bold Cinema and In-Depth Discussion
In its inaugural year, Montreal Critics’ Week has already made a name for itself by focusing on thoughtful curation and extensive discussions with filmmakers....
New York Asian Film Festival: A Conversation with President and Executive Director Samuel Jamier
In this conversation, Samuel Jamier, President and Executive Director of the New York Asian Film Festival and Foundation, offers insights into the festival’s origins, its...
I’m Still Here: Echoes in the Darkness
I’m Still Here, Brazilian director Walter Salles’ first feature film in over a decade, explores a dark period in his nation’s history. Recently awarded...
Through the Devil’s Lens: The Horror of a Cursed Polaroid
Horror thrives on the intersection of the seen and the unseen, the tangible and the supernatural. In this chilling new film, a cursed Polaroid...
Grand Theft Hamlet: Method in the Madness
As we hurtle clumsily into the future, our lives increasingly mediated by electronic interfaces, it can be easy to overlook the dramatic shift in...
Unmasking Desire: An Interview with Bethany Brown, the Director of Meet Me en Rêve
In Meet Me en Rêve, the boundaries between fantasy and reality blur as a woman wrestles with the confines of heteronormativity, self-repression, and the weight...
Severance Season 2 – Review
The first season of Severance built a world of mystery as audiences were abruptly introduced to Helly R (played by Britt Lower) alone and...
Unveiling Desire: Denis Côté on ‘For Paul’ and the Politics of Sexuality in Cinema
Denis Côté has long been known for his fascination with unconventional characters, often navigating the fringes of society and human desire. His latest film,...
Paddington in Peru – A Review
Paddington in Peru is the third installment in the Paddington film series and the first to occur most predominantly outside of England. The Paddington...
The Recipient – A Review
Getting any film made is extremely difficult. Films made in the independent space are a product of passion, determination, and often a lot of...
Exclusive interview with Mohammad Rasoulof before the Oscars
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, directed by Mohammad Rasoulof, is one of the contenders for the Best International Feature Film award at the...
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The Voices of Tomorrow: Educators in a Dangerous Time
In recent years, as we are faced with tremendously controversial electoral politics and shocking global conflicts, political discourse has become increasingly polarized and emotionally...
Hysteria; Quran Burning and Today’s Germany
Hysteria, which was screened in the Panorama section of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, blends the world of filmmaking with the reality of...
On Fumes – A Review
Connections. They are the building blocks of life. We become who we are because of the connections we make. But connections are not something...
Berlinale 2025 | Kontinental ’25: In Post-Communist Romania Absolution Costs Only 500 Euro
Peaceful green forests are streaked with sunlight, giving the air a golden colour. A scruffy-looking man, Ion (Gabriel Spahiu), enters the field. He mumbles...
Berlinale 2025 | The Message
The Message, the latest feature from Venezuelan director Iván Fund, is a skillfully realized meditation on love, hope, and the unexpected families we build...
Berlinale 2025 | Ancestral Visions of The Future
Sundance Prize Winner, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, pens a lengthy piece of personal poetry on a blank cinematic canvas, dreaming of his lost city, while...
Berlinale 2025 | No Beast. So Fierce: Burhan Qurbani and a Modern Take on...
Burhan Qurbani, the German-Afghan filmmaker who captivated audiences with his remarkable film Berlin Alexanderplatz—featured in the main competition of the 70th Berlin International Film Festival—returns...
Berlinale 2025 | The Memory of Butterflies
History, as common wisdom would have it, is written by the victors. Unsatisfied with the determinism of this adage, however, scholars and storytellers alike...
Abandoned Instruments: AI, Music, and the Future of Human Creativity
In an era where artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping creative industries, the question of human artistry’s survival becomes more pressing than ever. Abandoned Instruments...
Berlinale 2025 | Living the Land
Change is a part of life and growing up happens. It happens even in the face of traditions and, at times, it can be...
Berlinale 2025 | Two Times João Liberada
The Portuguese director, Paula Tomás Marques, delves into the themes of time and space in her film as she unveils the tumultuous tale of...
Berlinale 2025 | Blue Moon: A Melancholic Ode to Art, Beauty, and Longing
Richard Linklater returns to the Berlinale with Blue Moon, a film that marks another deep dive into the complex interiority of artists. Eleven years...
Berlinale 2025 | Under the Flags, the Sun
The world is huge with nearly 250 countries, states with full or partial UN recognition, and territories all combined. As a result, people often...
Berlinale 2025 | Where the Night Stands Still
In the ethereal dark, Where the Night Stands Still emerges as a captivating cinematic experience crafted by the visionary Liryc Dela Cruz. This debut...
Berlinale 2025 | What Marielle Knows: A Philosophical Reflection on Truth, Lies, and Social Cohesion
The Berlin competition film What Marielle Knows presents a compelling philosophical and psychological inquiry into the nature of truth and deception. The film follows...
Berlinale 2025 | Dreams
Being equal, isn’t it the most difficult thing for a couple to achieve, if at all possible? Isn't love ultimately about balancing power and...
Berlinale 2025 | How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World
Festival programmers work hard to build lineups that fit their sections. It’s part of the trust they build with audiences who come with expectations...
Berlinale 2025 | Fwends
Fwends, the debut feature from Australian director Sophie Somerville, takes a meandering look at the complexities of friendship and the existential struggle that so...
Berlinale 2025 | Paul
Paul, the latest documentary feature from prolific Quebecois director Denis Côté (Curling, Vic + Flo Saw a Bear) takes a detached and sympathetic look...
Berlinale 2025 | Special Operation
In the dawning hours of February 24, 2022, a shadow crept across the storied land of Ukraine as Russian forces cast their grasp upon...
Berlinale 2025 | Hysteria
Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay returns to Berlinale with the World Premiere of Hysteria, he previously attended the festival with Oray, which won the Best First...
Berlinale 2025 | Mickey 17: The Paradox of Progress, the Ethics of Cloning, and...
Premiering at the Berlinale, Mickey 17 is Bong Joon-ho’s latest foray into science fiction, delving into the ethical and existential dilemmas of cloning in...
Berlinale 2025 | The Good Sister
Does unconditional love have limits? Does forgiveness? As women navigating a predatory world where should our loyalties lie? At what cost to our own...
Julie Delpy: “It’s used to be a big handicap to be a pretty woman
Julie Delpy, who began her career at the age of sixteen with Jean-Luc Godard, has been active for several decades as an actress, director,...
Mário, an Entangled Life
Who was Mário Pinto de Andrade? An activist, a writer, a father, a guerrilla, a politician, a partner, a traveler, a dreamer, a sociologist,...
Inside the Lens: RaMell Ross on Adapting The Nickel Boys for the Screen
In this in-depth conversation, filmmaker RaMell Ross offers a behind-the-scenes look at his cinematic adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s powerful novel, The Nickel Boys. Ross delves...
“Emilia Pérez”: Hollywood’s Transgender Storm Against Trump or the Disaster of the Century?
“Emilia Pérez,” the controversial musical-crime film by Jacques Audiard, exploded like a bomb in Hollywood: it tells the story of a Mexican cartel boss...
Sundance Film Festival 2025 | Sundance Shorts
Sundance announced its Short Film Program Award winners on Tuesday, January 28th. If you’ve scrolled the IMDb pages of most feature directors, you would...
My Favorite Cake: That daring quest called life
Long before I watched My Favorite Cake, I was struck by the power of some of the scenes shown in its trailer. I wasn’t...
Three Kilometers to the End of the World: Homophobia and the New Wave of...
Three Kilometers to the End of the World by Emanuel Pârvu, began its festival journey in the competition section of the Cannes Film Festival....
Sundance Film Festival 2025 | Heating Up in Ice Cold Sundance
Sundance is the first big festival of the year, as the major awards bodies prepare to honour the films from last year, Park City,...
Ice Breath: An Existential Meditation on Eternity and Extinction
At times, a subject can be so vast, so all-encompassing, that it would be challenging to contain it within the bounds of traditional narrative...
Showcasing the True North: A Conversation with Ashleigh Rains on Canadian Film Fest’s Mission...
In its 19th edition, the Canadian Film Fest (CFF) has established itself as a vital platform for celebrating Canadian stories and filmmakers. At the...
Brooklyn International Short Festival at Stuart Cinema
The latest edition of the Brooklyn International Short Festival, held at the iconic Stuart Cinema on January 12, brought together a diverse range of...
Meet Me En Rêve: The Thin Line Between Fantasy and Reality
Meet Me En Rêve, directed by Vancouver-based actor Bethany Brown (F**k, Marry, Kill), takes a brisk but illuminating look at one woman’s contentious inner...
The Hard Truths Within
Marianne Jean-Baptiste gave one of, if not the best performance, of the year that few people will see in Hard Truths as its current...
A Different Man – Review
Leading up to this week, Sebastian Stan seemed like a shoo-in to get nominated for his first Academy Award for A Different Man, as...
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Cometa 1600: A Kaleidoscopic Vision of the Future
Cometa 1600, the debut feature film from multi-disciplinary visual artist Alejandra Díaz Olvera, taps into her passions for innovative photography, spirituality, and the environment...
Breakfast with Giraffes: Iranian absurdism for absurd times
Iranian cinema has long been known for its poetic films and, more recently, for its intense dramas. But one oft-ignored Iranian genre is comedy,...
Nyctophobia: An Experimental Journey Into Fear and Anxiety
In her debut feature, experimental film director Seayoon Jeong takes a deep dive into the mind of one woman suffering the debilitating effects of...
Why Jeanne Dielman Is Not the Greatest Film in Cinema History
The 50th anniversary of Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels by Chantal Akerman is being celebrated with screenings by the British Film Institute....
Exploring the Complexities of Growing Up: A Conversation with Riya Agarwal
In her captivating film If You Show Me Yours I’ll Show You Mine, screenwriter and filmmaker Riya Agarwal delves into the delicate interplay between innocence,...
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Nosferatu: A Remarkable Achievement of Genre Filmmaking
Genre films often are often relegated to the margins, ill-considered by many critics favouring more “serious” cinema. But as Robert Eggers demonstrates in Nosferatu,...
The Sensitive Vampire and the Blend of Horror and Comedy in “Humanist Vampire Seeking...
An emotional vampire who doesn’t want to kill people; a peculiar combination of horror and comedy is showcased in Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal...
A Complete Unknown: A Conventional Biopic for an Unconventional Artist
Director James Mangold is no stranger to the prestige biopic. Cutting his teeth on Girl, Interrupted (about author Susanna Kaysen’s extended stay in a...
Babygirl: Bumbling Towards Ecstasy
For many years, turning forty sounded something of a death knell for the careers of many actresses in Hollywood. Often relegated to the background...
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When I think of favourite films in any given year, it’s the films that I thought most about after seeing, the ones I would...
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As one year gives way the next, cinephiles of all stripes play that familiar game of identifying the cream of the crop. From quiet...
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Exclusive interview with Jim Sheridan; from Daniel Day-Lewis to film as a belief system
Jim Sheridan, one of the most important filmmakers in the history of Irish cinema, ventured into rarely explored territories with My Left Foot (1981)....
Small Things Like These: Cillian Murphy Surpasses Expectations
Tim Mielants’ cinematic adaptation of “Small Things Like These” has reached the audience with a poignant message, anchored through the remarkable performance of Academy...
Perspective in Nickel Boys – A Review
Perspective, aka whose story is being told, is one of the basic entries to engaging with narrative. In film, the perspective is often that...
The Fire Inside – A Review
Film development, production, and release can vary widely in length due to various factors. Smaller productions, because of less lengthy post-production needs and prohibitive...
Legacy, Art, and Resilience in The Brutalist – A Review
Since the first screenings of The Brutalist at the Venice Film Festival, where director Brady Corbet was awarded the Silver Lion for Best Direction,...
Queer – A Review
Queer, the latest effort from director Luca Guadagnino, brings the 1985 novella by William Burroughs to life in a gloriously messy exploration of longing...
Maria: A Swan Song for La Divina
Biographical dramas tend to be polarizing affairs. Many prefer their biopics to be something akin to slavishly devoted documentary works, nitpicking at every historical...
Cairo Film Festival 2024 | “Vittoria”: A Touch of Human Emotions
Vittoria, directed by Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman, which captivated audiences for the first time at this year's Venice Film Festival, has also enjoyed...
Black Doves – A Review
I entered Black Doves really wanting to like it. I’d first been introduced to series creator Joe Barton’s work with his screenplay for the...
Red Sea Film Festival 2024 | Viola Davis Shines at An Intimate and Transformative...
At the Red Sea International Film Festival, the iconic Viola Davis delivered an electrifying and deeply personal conversation that left the audience profoundly moved....
Red Sea Film Festival 2024 | To A Land Unknown
To A Land Unknown - the confident feature debut from Danish-Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel - is at its core a tale of displacement and...
Red Sea Film Festival 2024 | Spike Lee’s Masterclass: A Celebration of Storytelling and...
The Red Sea International Film Festival hosted an electrifying masterclass with the iconic Spike Lee, a trailblazer in cinema whose work has inspired generations....
Red Sea Film Festival 2024 | Michael Mann: Mastering the Art of Cinema
Michael Mann, one of cinema's most revered directors, recently treated an audience at the Red Sea Masterclass to an intimate glimpse into his creative...
The Man in and Behind the Cape | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story Review
Christopher Reeve was not the first man to portray the dual role of Superman and Clark Kent on film; he was not even the...
Red Sea Film Festival 2024 | Benedict Cumberbatch Shines at Masterclass
Benedict Cumberbatch captivated audiences at the Red Sea International Film Festival with a revealing and thought-provoking masterclass. The celebrated actor, known for his dynamic...
Red Sea Film Festival 2024 | Brendan Fraser: A Masterclass in Resilience and Storytelling
Brendan Fraser captivated audiences at the Red Sea International Film Festival with a masterclass that was as much about his remarkable career as it...
Moonage Daydream: A Psychedelic Portrait of Artistic Evolution
Few approach David Bowie’s legendary status in the cultural imagination, and Moonage Daydream goes to great lengths in its attempt to unpack just what...
Red Sea Film Festival 2024 | Olivia Wilde’s Journey: A Masterclass in Storytelling and...
At the Red Sea International Film Festival, Olivia Wilde captivated the audience in an engaging conversation, reflecting on her journey from acting to directing...
Dear Santa – A Review
As pumpkin spice season closes and you enter the season of yule logs, roasted chestnuts, and egg nog, you also signal the annual release...
Red Sea Film Festival 2024 | Cinema’s Eternal Flame: Thierry Frémaux on Festivals, Theaters,...
At the Red Sea Film Festival, Thierry Frémaux, the esteemed director of the Cannes Film Festival, offered a masterclass in cinematic philosophy, festival curation,...
Red Sea Film Festival 2024 | Celebrating Women in Cinema at Prestigious Gala
The Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF), now in its 4th edition, has firmly established itself as a leading platform for cinematic excellence, showcasing a...
Red Sea Film Festival 2024 | A Spectacular Opening
The Red Sea International Film Festival commenced with a spectacular opening ceremony that set the tone for a vibrant celebration of cinema. Directed by...
Memory in Flux: Review of Perchance to Dream
Perchance to Dream, a film by Amir Ganjavie, is a compelling psychological thriller about a group of passengers struggling with mysterious memory loss following...
Blitz – A Review
Many films and books have focused on the World Wars, both the battles themselves and the effect on the home front. One particular aspect...
The Girl with the Needle: A Skillfully Executed Expressionist Nightmare
The Girl with the Needle, the latest feature from Swedish director Magnus von Horn, premiered this year at the Cannes Film Festival, to great...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024 | Lotus
Lotus is an experimental film and a love letter to cinema, particularly arthouse/experimental cinema. The film, from writer/director Signe Birkova, opens with a visit...
Mothers’ Instinct: Better Luck Next Time
Mothers’ Instinct, the debut feature from French cinematographer Benoît Delhomme (The Theory of Everything), is high on melodrama, but lacks bite. Pitting Hollywood heavy...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024 | The Exalted
The Latvian director of Soviet Jeans, the 2024 acclaimed series that narrates a romantic political story set in the Soviet era, after his successful...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024 | Pink Lady
Taking home the best director prize at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival for his latest effort, director Nir Bergman tackles the taboo topics...
The Diplomat Season 2 Review
Season 2 of The Diplomat picks up only moments after Season 1’s explosive finale. Ambassador Kate Wyler (played by Keri Russell), still in France,...
Gladiator 2 – Review
The first Gladiator movie was a cultural moment. The thumbs-up and thumbs-down stuff rippled into pop culture and down to the playgrounds. With a...
Cairo Film Festival 2024 | #3 Dispatch
A modern miracle unfurled in the heart of Cairo, where the echoes of ancient civilizations murmured through the busy streets: the International Film Festival—a...
Wicked – A Review
After years of development and pushed release dates this weekend, audiences finally got to see the theatrical version of Wicked: Part 1. Wicked began...
Cairo Film Festival 2024 | #2 Dispatch
Cairo Film Connection concluded its activities on Wednesday, November 20, at Sofitel El Gezirah Hotel as part of the 45th Cairo International Film Festival....
Cairo Film Festival 2024 | #1 Dispatch
The Cairo Film Connection (CFC) has revealed its selection of 18 projects for its 10th edition, scheduled to run from November 17 to 20...
Cairo Film Festival 2024 | Passing Dreams
The 45th Cairo International Film Festival opened with Passing Dreams directed by Rashid Masharawi; a movie that follows the story of a 12-year-old Palestinian...
Cairo Film Festival 2024 | Maldoror
Maldoror is a bitter portrayal of a true story that took place in Belgium, which became a sensational case in the 1990s. In this...
Rabat Author Film Festival 2024 | Girls of the Sea
Premiering in competition at this month’s Rabat International Author Film Festival, Girls of the Sea stars Bahareh Afshari stars as Goli, a young Afghani...
Blink Twice: Fool Around and Find Out
Blink Twice, the debut feature from actor Zoë Kravitz, has generated a lot of buzz this year, much of it focused on the director’s...
Emilia Pérez: Style Over Substance
Emilia Pérez, the latest project from celebrated French filmmaker Jacques Audiard (Rust & Bone) represents a wild departure for the elderly director, and is...
The Piano Lesson – A Review
The Piano Lesson, screenplay by Virgil Williams and Malcolm Washington, is the screen adaptation of the August Wilson play of the same name. Washington...
Dreams of Flight and Resistance: Unveiling the Interwoven Realities of Cometa 1600
In Cometa 1600, the filmmaker takes us on a powerful journey that connects environmental harmony with human dreams and mental well-being. At its core is...
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In the beating heart of the Kingdom of Morocco, the effervescent city of Rabat stands as a bastion of creativity and intellect, set to...
An Ethical Production Model to Co-create and Set Free, Inside the Prison and on...
It’s difficult to write about a movie that shook you emotionally. How not to be biased? How to do justice to it? Every word...
The Apprentice: The Young Trump At The Gate of Power
“I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And...
The Unseen Struggle: An Interview on the Ambitions, Tensions, and Hidden Fears Behind Untitled
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The power of music is that it is transportive. In a very simple way, music is a method of time travel because when you...
A Real Pain – A Review
Jesse Eisenberg marks his sophomore feature as writer/director with A Real Pain, which he also stars in (as David Kaplan) alongside Kieran Culkin (as...
Bird: Horses and Feathers and Bugs, Oh My
Bird, the latest feature from celebrated British filmmaker Andrea Arnold (Red Road), sees the director circling back to her old stomping grounds with a...
A Room of Our Own: Rediscovering Identity and Legacy Through Music, Dance, and Film
In A Room of Our Own, Jude Adams takes us on a deeply personal journey, revisiting and reimagining songs from her past albums through acoustic...
In Focus | Andrea Arnold
Independent British filmmaker Andrea Arnold has amassed an impressive filmography over the past twenty years, first coming to the attention of audiences with the...
Rick Amsbury discusses his performance in Perchance to Dream
Produced by Phantom Film Production Corp, the Perchance to Dream is a film directed by Amir Ganjavie, a filmmaker, university scholar and critic based...
Agatha All Along – A Review
Disney+ launched in November 2019 and became the place for DET to create television expansion series for their various properties. The first original series...
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Returns: A Gothic Revival for Halloween Night
In the hauntingly imaginative world of Tim Burton, a visionary director known for his signature gothic style and whimsical narrative flair, a familiar presence...
Drama in the Vatican – Film Review of Conclave
In the spring of 2014, Toronto theatre-going audiences had the opportunity to see Roger Crane’s play The Last Confession, which one of the main...
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French Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop, niece of legendary Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty (Touki Bouki), has emerged in recent years as cinematic force to...
Wicked Little Letters or the Littlehampton libel’s mystery
“You bloody fucking flaming piss country whores go and fuck your cunt. It's your drain that stinks not our fish box. Yo fucking dirty...
Familia: From Domestic Violence to Myth
Familia, directed by Francesco Costabile, which premiered at this year’s Venice Festival and has since made its way to other international festivals, tells the...
Anora – A Review
Years ago, I sat in a small theatre on Sunset to watch Starlet, a film about an adult film star who becomes friends with...
Old Fox – A Review
Inequality is a facet of life, and it comes in many forms. Laio Jie (played by Run-yin Bai) is 11 years old, and he...
Dahomey: Reckoning With Ghosts of Colonial Pasts
Dahomey, the latest documentary from Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop, was awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlinale earlier this year. It was only the...
The Hawks and the Sparrow, Pasolini’s most difficult signature work
An almost full moon in a cloudy sky offers a static background to the most dynamic opening credits of The Hawks and the Sparrows...
Changing how you look, can change who you are? Emilia Pérez review
You can change how you look but not who you are, the doctor responsible for the transition of a brutal cartel boss argues. This...
Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara – A Review
Most people going through life become fans of place, people, and things. It’s an everyday occurrence, from having a favourite team, movie, or pizza...
Everybody Loves Touda – A Review
Every year, countries outside the US decide on the film to submit for Best International Film. They only get one submission, so each country...
Saturday Night – Not Live but Lively
Saturday Night Live has been around for a long time; its 50th season premiered this fall on September 28th. The show has been nominated...
Exploring the Spirit of Eastern European Cinema: An Interview with Vera Mijojlic
Introduction: In this interview, we have the pleasure of speaking with Vera Mijojlic, the founder and director of the Southeast European Film Festival (SEE Festival)...
Like a family fight, It does not leave you indifferent – Review of His...
“If there is any guilt I have, it’s that maybe I should have… I could have expressed myself better”. These are among the last...
Animalia; Faith and apocalypse
Supernatural apocalyptic film from Arab Cinema, Animalia portrays a mystic survival journey to faith and meaning of god. Sofia Alaoui in this exclusive interview...
Beáta Imre and the challenges of working in Perchance to Dream
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Toronto Film Festival 2024 | The Life of Chuck
I did not go to the festival expecting to see the People’s Choice Winner. I was pretty sure I wouldn’t because I focused on...
Women, love and music; exclusive interview with Lola Arias about Reas
Portraying solidarity between women, trans women and trans men, Reas is very intimate approach to people who have been in Buenos Aires prison and...
Toronto Film Festival 2024 | Daughter’s Daughter
Xi Huang showed a lot of technical skill in making Daughter’s Daughter. The composition of every shot was impeccable, right down to the wardrobe...
Toronto Film Festival 2024 | The Substance
The Substance, one of the most anticipated releases of the year, is finally set to arrive in Canadian cinemas this week. Starring Demi Moore...
Fighting Demons: Jay Chorney on Redemption, Resilience, and the Inner Battle in “Never Back...
Introduction: In his short film Never Back Down, Jay Chorney introduces us to John Enzio, a man caught between the shadows of his past...
Never Back Down: A Different Kind of One-Man Show
Necessity is the mother of invention, as Jay Chorney proves with his short film Never Back Down. Shooting nearly entirely on a smartphone, Chorney...
Toronto Film Festival 2024 | Sketch
A certain magic happens when you mix a little horror/adventure with compelling child actors, you get films like The Goonies, Jumanji, or Super 8,...
Toronto Film Festival 2024 | Superboys of Malegaon
While Bollywood unquestionably dominates the popular imagination when it comes to Indian cinema, the subcontinent is home to a rich tapestry of cinematic traditions...
Heirloom: Navigating Family, Identity, and Surrogacy in LGBTQ+ Narratives
Introduction: In "Heirloom," the filmmaker delves into the complexities of family, identity, and the evolving dynamics of LGBTQ+ relationships through a compelling narrative that...
Toronto Film Festival 2024 | Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
While the title may indicate that Jane Austen wrecked the life of Agathe (played by Camille Rutherford), the protagonist in Laura Piani’s Jane Austen...
Toronto Film Festival 2024 | Shook
Some movies are made with a certain niche audience in mind. The demographic might be along specific age or cultural divides, but in Shook...
Toronto Film Festival 2024 | Eden
Eden is synonymous with paradise. But what is paradise? In the film Eden, from director Ron Howard and screenwriter Noah Pink, when the Wittmer...
Toronto Film Festival 2024 | The Party’s Over
From this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, comes The Party’s Over (Spanish: Se acabó la fiesta).This movie has many variations on its title. I’ve...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | The Room Next Door
Pedro Almodóvar's latest film, The Room Next Door, his first English-language work, premiered in the competition section of the Venice Film Festival and has quickly...
Toronto Film Festival 2024 | Polvo Seran
My God is the opening of Polvo Seran (showing at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, English: “They Will Be Dust”) dazzling! I watched...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | One of Those Days When Hemme Dies
Ever had a boss so terrible that you considered homicide? If the answer is yes, you’ll find plenty to relate to in Murat Firatoğlu’s...
Toronto Film Festival 2024 | U Are The Universe
From Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey” to “Spaceman,” directed by Johan Renck, the film industry has evolved to explore complex narratives that...
Toronto Film Festival 2024 | The Damned
The Damned - an improvisational meditation on masculinity and marginalization in the American West - takes a close look at the rarely explored fringes...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | Manas
In the heart of nature with a mesmerising photograph that framed the audience's eyes, we are waiting to witness the hidden gem of life...
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Venice Film Festival 2024 | Labirinti
Founded in 2004, the Giornate degli Autori (Venice Days) is an independent section of the Venice Film Festival intended to highlight the work of...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | Aïcha
Narratives frequently serve as mirrors, reflecting the sociopolitical landscapes from which they emerge in the complex tapestry of film. Aïcha, directed by Tunisian talented...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari
Touted as a “docu-encyclopedia,” the latest opus from acclaimed documentarians Martina Parenti and Massimo D’Anolfi points a microscopic lens at a macroscopic subject: the...
Dancing in Reflections: Behind the Scenes of Jesus Christ Flamenco – An Interview with...
Introduction: In this insightful interview, Laura Muñoz takes us behind the scenes of the documentary Jesus Christ Flamenco, which captures the dynamic creative process...
Nineteen: Crazy world of 19-year-old, from literature to Pasolini
Nineteen (DICIANNOVE), the official selection of Venice Film Festival in Orizzonti section, tells the story of 19-year-old Leorndo. Giovanni Tortorici in this exclusive interview...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | The Ties That Bind Us
The Ties That Bind Us, the latest feature from director Carine Tardieu, explores the dynamics of a non-traditional family thrown together by the winds...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | The Mohican
The Mohican, one of ten films selected to compete in the Orizzonte Extra programme at this year’s Venice International Film Festival, examines just how...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | To Kill a Mongolian Horse
There is something to be said about cinema made by people familiar with a subject. They often bring a passion to capturing it in...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | The Fisherman
From out of the sea and this year’s Venice Biennale, comes writer and director Zoey Martinson’s whimsical comedy The Fisherman. Atta (Ricky Adelayitar) is...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | Maldoror
A blend of thriller and film noir in a similar style to David Fincher’s Zodiac, Maldoror, directed and written by Fabrice Du Welz, a...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | Why War
Film festivals are not unfamiliar with courting controversy. It is pretty much unavoidable when many topics are polarizing. Some festivals will try to mitigate...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | Cloud
I have long been familiar with Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s name as a filmmaker. However, I have to admit that I had not seen his work,...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | Se Posso Permettermi Capitolo II
Short films, usually considered the purview of up-and-coming directors eager to demonstrate their potential, can also serve to provide the most established of filmmakers...
Reimagining Empowerment: An Interview with Aly Mang on Directing The Beginning
Introduction: In this interview, we speak with Aly Mang, the director, writer, and lead actress of The Beginning, a film that explores themes of...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | Battlefield
There are many war films, particularly surrounding the great wars (World War I and World War II), because with all the lives lost war...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | Nonostante
Opening the Orizzonti competition at this year’s Venice International Film Festival is the delightfully bittersweet confection Nonostante, the second feature from Italian director Valerio...
Interview with Milad Tangshir, Director of the Film ‘Anywhere, Anytime’: A Story of Migration...
Introduction: The presence of Iranian directors in Europe and elsewhere has become increasingly noticeable, and their numbers continue to grow day by day. These...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | My Everything
According to German scholar and philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche, humans are the children of necessity, and their needs shape who they truly are. My Everything,...
Venice Film Festival 2024 | Quiet Life
Quiet Life presents a Russian family seeking political asylum in Sweden after having fled after an attack on the patriarch. We are introduced to...
The Making of ‘STAY’: An Interview with Dylan Kaufmann on Crafting an Animated Story...
In this interview, we dive into the creative process behind "STAY," an animated short film by Dylan Kaufmann that explores themes of isolation, depression,...
Four Films to Check Out Before You See The Substance
One of the most talked about films at the Cannes Film Festival this year was The Substance, a wild body horror thriller destined to...
Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Cinema: An Interview with Hussain Amarshi, Founder of Mongrel...
In this insightful conversation, Hussain Amarshi, the founder and president of Mongrel Media, reflects on his nearly 30-year journey in the film distribution industry....
Interview with Yorgos Krassakopoulos: Insights from the Head of Programming at Thessaloniki International Film...
Introduction: In this insightful interview, Yorgos Krassakopoulos, the head of programming for the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, shares his experiences...
Unlocking Memories: An In-Depth Conversation with AJ Lutsky on Emotional Storage
In the ever-evolving landscape of cinema, few films manage to blend the intricacies of human emotion with cutting-edge concepts as seamlessly as Emotional Storage. Directed...
Unveiling the Layers of Comedy and Commentary: A Conversation with Diane Thomassin on My...
In a world where social media platforms like TikTok have become the new frontier for storytelling and cultural commentary, Diane Thomassin and Michael Miceli...
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 Stretched Out Beneath the Blood and Fire
Kevin Costner, renowned for his role in the film Dances with Wolves, when he gallantly rode a horse over the vast American desert with...
The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards will take place on September 15, 2024, only eight months after the strike delayed 75th awards ceremony and, once...
Interview with Josef Kullengård, Head of Industry at the Goteborg Film Festival
In this insightful interview, we sit down with Josef Kullengård, the Head of Industry at the Goteborg Film Festival. Josef, who has been with...
Coup! – A Review
Coup! Supposedly arrived in theatres last Friday (August 2nd) after its Venice premiere last fall but you’d be hard-pressed to find a showtime. With...
There will still be more blood / A report on the 28th edition of...
This year’s annual exuberant celebration of the genre cinema was about to be clouded over with some concerning developments at its very start. Almost...
Latin Quarter with Juan Castro
At the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Juan Castro, the founder and CEO of Latin...
The Young Generation with Sebastian Markt
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Sebastian Markt, who has been the head of the Generation section for the Berlin International...
Challengers – Another view
The film opens and closes with a tennis match. On one side of the net is Art Donaldson (Mike Faist), the face of Wilson...
Olympics on Film
Faster-Higher-Stronger is a line probably considered when test-marketing new superheroes or rollercoasters but it’s also the Olympic motto. The Olympics bring out top athletes...
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Trap – A Review
Trap opens with Cooper (played by Josh Hartnett) taking his daughter Riley (played by Ariel Donoghue) to see her favourite artist, Lady Raven (played...
The Lido’s Cinematic Symphony: All Eyes on Venice Film Festival 2024
At the shimmering edges of the Venetian Lagoon, a grand congregation of cinematic dignitaries, film aficionados, and international media will assemble from August 28th...
Barbara Kopple – Exclusive Interview
Barbara Kopple, has been credited with “pioneering a renaissance of cinema vérité”. Winner of two Academy Awards here in this exclusive interview talks about...
Deadpool & Wolverine: Enter the Meta-Multiverse
Fans of the Deadpool movies knew that a little thing like Logan (AKA Wolverine played by Hugh Jackman) dying at the end of the...
Beyond the Arrogance of Interpretation: Rethinking Art Criticism in the Contemporary World
I recently had a conversation with a film producer about a new film project. She told me that the message of my script was...
TIFF PREMIERES
Raised in Toronto, with a love of films, I grew up in awe of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). When the festival launched,...
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Cannot Root in a Wasteland
In the pantheon of cinematic achievement, few directors have managed to create worlds as visually arresting and thematically complex as those crafted by George...
A Quiet Place: Day One Is Where We Have to Pause and Listen to...
In the era of apocalyptic films, audiences enter movie theatres in search of a glimmer of hope—to witness films, plays, and visual effects that...
From the Danube Delta to Cannes: An Interview with Miruna Berescu on Filmmaking, Festivals,...
In this insightful interview, we sit down with Miruna Berescu, the accomplished producer of Three Kilometers to the End of the World and the long-time director...
TV Consumption in the Streaming Age
There is no question that how people view television is vastly different now than before the boom of streaming. But I would argue, that...
Let’s Twist Again – Twisters Review
Twister is one of those summer popcorn flicks I have fond memories of watching, often with lots of ad breaks, with my father. It’s...
Interview with Marketa Santrochova: Leading Czech Cinema on the Global Stage
Marketa Santrochova, the head of the Czech Film Center, has been a pivotal figure in promoting Czech cinema internationally for over two decades. In...
Why Safety on Set Can’t Get Rusty
On Friday, July 12th the case against Alec Baldwin in the death of Rust’s cinematographer Haylna Hutchins was dismissed, which may also affect the...
Irène Jacob and Krzysztof Kieślowski; exclusive interview
Irène Jacob will receive Leopard Club Award in Locarno Film Festival. Jacob still shines in The Double Life of Veronique (winner of the best...
Toronto Screening of Political Thriller on August 18 at York Cinema
Toronto audiences will have the opportunity to watch a gripping new political thriller on August 18 at York Cinema, featuring the harrowing journey of...
Pascal Diot: Bridging Film Production and Market Success at Venice
Pascal Diot has been a stalwart in the film industry for over 44 years, wearing multiple hats as a sales agent, producer, and market...
The Case for an Intimacy Coordinator Oscar: A Response
Recently, The Hollywood Reporter published an article highlighting the growing prominence of intimacy coordinators in the film industry. Featuring interviews with intimacy coordinator Mam...
The Talk of the Ton – Bridgerton Review
Dearest Gentle Reader,
A cliché, but one cannot begin a review of Bridgerton without those three words. Bridgerton is a romance series, I would say...
In Focus | Denis Villeneuve
Denis Villeneuve is arguably the most prominent Canadian filmmaker working today, rising from his early work on independent arthouse fare in Montreal to directing...
A Promise of Blood – House of the Dragon Review
The opening credits for the first season of House of the Dragon featured a Targaryen sigil, that of Aegon the Conqueror, and flowing blood....
IF: The Audiences Enjoyed it, but The Critics Did Not
We may all recall the times when we would gather in a room and converse with the fictitious companions who helped us endure the...
A Triumph or a Failure – The Bear Review
A lot of parallels can be drawn between the stories and themes The Bear explores in the series in the world of restaurants and...
In Focus | Yorgos Lanthimos
Yorgos Lanthimos has over the past few years become one of the buzziest directors in Hollywood, collaborating with high profile stars like Emma Stone...
Toronto Film Festival 2024 | The Sound of TIFF 2024 Coming
Last week TIFF made its first announcements for its 49th festival. This included unveiling select films and some of the honourees of their 6th...
Kinds of Kindness – A Review
In my first quarter of grad school, we spent three weeks watching Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours trilogy. There was something different to enjoy or...
Exclusive interview with Baz Luhrmann; From watching Lawrence of Arabia to Mixing cinema and...
Baz Luhrmann, Australian director of Moulin Rouge and Elvis, in this exclusive interview talks about how he started to be a cinema lover and...
Yorgos Lanthimos and the Absurd Symphony of Control in Kinds of Kindness
After the premiere of Kinds of Kindness at Cannes, it is clear that Yorgos Lanthimos, often regarded as a master of surrealism and absurdity,...
In Focus | Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater, born in Houston in 1960, is one of the most prolific and respected filmmakers working today. A staple of the Austin creative...
Pride 2024 | Rounding Up the Most Notable LGBTQ+ Releases of the Year
As Pride 2024 rapidly comes to a close, what better way to celebrate than with a few great films! 2024 has been a great...
Agency and Responsibility for Crimes: Analyzing Rasoulof’s Cinema Through the Lens of Hannah Arendt...
After the premiere of The Seed of the Sacred Fig at Cannes, it is evident that responsibility for actions under oppressive regimes remains a...
Those Summer Frights
Anyone who has been to an AMC theatre or is even vaguely familiar with the Nicole Kidman AMC ads knows what they expound about...
The Exorcism – A Review
The Exorcism, written by M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller (Miller also directed), opens letting you know that you are on the soundstage with...
Preserving Memories: An Interview with Alvaro Garcia on Dernier Souffle
In a poignant exploration of aging and memory, Alvaro Garcia presents a deeply introspective film centered on an elderly woman reflecting on her life....
Hit Man: Something Doesn’t Add Up
Richard Linklater is one of my favourite directors. Whether experimenting with the form in films like A Scanner Darklyand Boyhood, crafting one of the...
Artistic Integrity and Bold Decisions: An Exclusive Interview with Alberto Barbera
Universal Cinema is honored to present an exclusive interview with Alberto Barbera, the esteemed Artistic Director of the Venice Film Festival. Recently reappointed for...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | Norah
Getting into any legitimate film festival is a feat because, with the amazing, and needed, democratization of film, making it more accessible to create,...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | Exclusive interview: The Other Way Around; Break Up With...
After 15 years together, Ale and Alex have come up with the crazy idea of throwing a party to celebrate their recent break-up. This...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | Sauna Day
Cannes Critics’ Week (Semaine de la Critique), which runs parallel to the Cannes Film Festival and showcases the work of talented up and coming...
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Festival de Cannes 2024 | The Hyperboreans
The Chilean artistic duo Leòn & Cociňa once again captures attention at the forefront of major European festivals with The Hyperboreans.
Presented at the Cannes...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | Exclusive interview: The Story of Souleymane; Migrants and Paris
As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has to go through his...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | In His Own Image
In His Own Image (“À son image”), shown at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, explores violence from a distance despite its protagonist living a...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Accomplished documentary filmmaker Nebojša Slijepcevic makes his first foray into narrative film with the powerful short The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, premiering...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | Exclusive interview: “When The Light Breaks” and Secret Islandic...
From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty. Rúnar Rúnarsson director of this opening film of...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | Exclusive interview: Block Pass; Forbidden Love Story
Willy and Jojo are childhood friends who spend their time together. To kill time, they practice motocross on a track called La Pampa. One...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | The Other Way Around
The first scene of a film is often very telling about the kind of film you’re going to embark upon. It’s all about setting the tone. That said, I...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | Block Pass
French director Antoine Chevrollier, most well-known for the television miniseries Oussekine, makes his feature film debut at Cannes Critics’ Week with Block Pass (La...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | East of Noon
Humans possess a unique and distinguished ability to tell stories, shaping unions, communities, patriotism, and belief systems accordingly, and generation after generation has shaped...
Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight with Julien Rejl
In this engaging interview, Amir Ganjavie of Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal converses with Julien Rejl, the Artistic Director of Cannes' Directors’ Fortnight....
Festival de Cannes 2024 | When The Land Runs Away
“Oh, get down high mountain, let my cattle pass. The girl who tends it has golden hair. On the top of that mountain where...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | Universal Language
Universal Language is a wonderful surrealist film, and a great follow-up to Matthew Rankin’s directorial debut, The Twentieth Century. The first thing that will stand out to Canadians watching the film...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | Holy Cow
Coming-of-age films often center characters facing unexpected/unplanned changes in life and follow how they adapt and change/grow because of them. Holy Cow (Vingt Dieux)...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | Something Old Something New Something Borrowed
After working as an editor, screenwriter, photographer, and, of course, director, Hernan Rosselli arrives at the Cannes Director's Fortnight with his third feature film,...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | Savanna and the Mountain
When will all this life of unrest end, this anguish, this fear, this life in fright. Frayed nerves, I have a bad feeling eating me up...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | The Shameless
Bulgarian director and visual artist Konstantin Bojanov (Avé, Light Thereafter) returns to Cannes with his latest film, The Shameless. Inspired by his extensive travels...
From Winnipeg to Tehran: Matthew Rankin Discusses the Cross-Cultural Fantasia of Universal Language
“Universal Language," directed by Matthew Rankin, is a surreal comedy that serves as Canada’s official entry for the Best International Feature Film at the...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | When the Light Breaks
When the Light Breaks (Ljósbrot), the latest offering from Icelandic director Rúnar Rúnarsson, is a brief and searingly honest meditation on grief and the...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | Meeting with Pol Pot
Inspired by true events, Meeting with Pol Pot (Rendez-Vous Avec Pol Pot) follows a trio of French journalists invited to interview Pol Pot in...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | Simon of the Mountain
Established in 1962, Cannes Critics’ Week (Semaine de la Critique) - conceived by the French Union of Film Critics to run alongside the Cannes...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | Directors Factory Philippines
May 14–25, 2024, will mark the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The jury president for the main competition is Greta Gerwig, an...
Mohammad Rasoulof, a famous director, was sentenced to 8 years in prison
According to the report of Mansour Jahani, an independent and international cinema journalist, Mohammad Rasoulof, a well-known director of Iranian cinema, was sentenced to...
Festival de Cannes 2024 | The Iranian Film Association (IIFMA) on the Way
For more than 75 years, Cannes has been hosting the annual celebration of the 7th art. The festival receives extensive promotion and advertising, establishing...
Abigail – A Review
I left my screening of Abigail considering the different types of horror films and their marketing. This review will contain spoilers for the film but nothing outside of...
Civil War (2024): Alex Garland in one of his most disruptive works
Premiering at the South by Southwest festival, Civil War arrived in US cinemas in mid-April, sparking controversy and division among audiences even before its...
Love Lies Bleeding: Blood, Sweat and Tears
Love Lies Bleeding, the confident second feature from British director Rose Glass (Saint Maud) is a gloriously pulpy tale of lust, deceit, and violence...
Challengers – A Review
I have probably already noted it before, but I will state it again, I love a sports movie. I love them when they are formulaic or...
The cinematic position of Mohammad Rasoulof in France
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, made by Mohammad Rasoulof, has found his way to the competition section of Cannes Film Festival. According to...
She is Conann: An Unlikely Feminist Fable
She is Conann, the latest outing from experimental French film director Bertrand Mandico (The Wild Boys, After Blue), premiered in competition for the Queer...
Shogun: A Japanese Power Game Captivates the Western World
The 1980 series adaptation of James Cavell's acclaimed 1975 historical fiction novel, Shogun, moves viewers to medieval Japan in the year 1600. Rachel Kondo...
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, A Sheer Entertainment Film with a Boneless Narrative
After four decades of cosplay, merchandise, animated series, video games, and comic books propelling the Ghostbuster brand into the twenty-first century, the fifth installment...
Deve Patal’s Monkey Man Promises His Directorial Talent
Slumdog Millionarie’s Deve Patal, with his directorial debut, brings out a revenging narrative of poverty, wealth, power, and corruption by relying on a Hindu...
The Red Sea Makes Me Wanna Cry: A short film by a German-Jordanian artist...
Recently, Mubi has added a short film that showcases the immense talent of multidisciplinary artist Faris Alrjoob, who works in the fields of cinema,...
Iranian filmmakers compete in the 2024 Cannes Film Festival!
The French media extensively cover the completion of the official selection list for the Cannes festival, including Télérama, Le Monde, Libération, Le Figaro, and...
Gasoline Rainbow: Uncertain Futures and a Party at the End of the World
Gasoline Rainbow, the latest outing from the directing duo known as the Ross Brothers (siblings Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross), premiered at the...
Entering “Fallout” – A Review
Adaptations are all the rage because they can have built-in fanbases. That is a driving factor behind many features or TV shows getting made...
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World: If You Don’t...
If you’ve ever had one of those extremely vivid dreams that seems to meander in a thousand directions, bordering on the nonsensical but actually...
The Mystery of “Palm Royale” – A Review
As someone who has watched probably what can be classified as too much TV, I generally get a pretty good read of characters early...
Anselm: Wim Wenders Pushes the Artistic Boundaries of the 3D Documentary
In Anselm, which premiered at Cannes in 2023, Wim Wenders applies to the painter and multimedia artist Anselm Kiefer the same 3D treatment he...
How to Have Sex: Troubled in Paradise
How to Have Sex, the debut feature from British director and cinematographer Molly Manning Walker, tells a tale far more grim than its title...
The Settlers: Casting Light into the Dark Corners of History
The Settlers, the debut feature from Chilean director Felipe Gálvez, casts an unflinching eye on the continent’s brutal colonial past. Turning the concept of...
The Fall Guy – A Review
Ryan Gosling has been a romantic lead to me since I was a child. My friends and I would watch all the reruns of...
Scoop: Royally Exposed
Scoop, directed by Philip Martin from a screenplay by Peter Moffat and Geoff Bussetil, tells the story of Newsnight’s infamous interview with Prince Andrew...
The Visitor: quite a disgusting movie at Berlin International Film Festival 2024
Presented in the Panorama section of the 74th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival and nominated for a Teddy Award, The Visitor was...
Miu Miu’s Women’s Tale #27 – I Am The Beauty of Your Beauty, I...
For over ten years now, the brand Miu Miu has decided to commission two short films each year, focused on themes related to femininity...
Damsel: A Heroine’s Journey into the Heart of Darkness
“There are chivalry stories in which the knights are to save the ladies, but this is not one of them.” Damsel, directed by Juan...
Berlinale 2024 | Dahomey
In 2021, the French government returned twenty-six royal treasures, out of the estimated seven thousand, that were looted in the 19th century by the...
The Beast – A Review
The Beast from filmmaker Bertrand Bonello based on a story he co-wrote with Guillaume Bréaud and Benjamin Charbit, which itself was inspired or loosely...
SXSW 2024 | Pure O
Inspired by his personal life, the writer and director of Pure O, Dillon Tucker, delves into the innermost thoughts and concerns of an individual...
Things Will Be Different – Interview with Director Michael Felker
“Things Will Be Different” is the debut feature from filmmaker Michael Felker, who has previously written and directed short films and has worked as...
SXSW 2024 | My Sextortion Diary
SXSW, held annually in March, attracts a multitude of people to Austin and is globally recognized as a top-tier event that highlights music, film,...
SXSW 2024 | An Army of Women
South by Southwest, known as SXSW Festival, is an annual gathering of films, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that takes...
Yannick: Theatricus Interruptus
Years ago, at a film festival far far away, I went to see a very strange film called Deerskin. Starring Jean Dujardin and Adèle...
Racism manifests in various patterns and forms / Interview with Ilker Çatak
The Teachers' Lounge by Ilker Catak was nominated as the representative of Germany in the Best International Film category of the 96th Academy Awards....
SXSW 2024 | An Interview with Stormy Editor Inbal B. Lessner ACE
Universal Cinema’s Ester Bovard interviewed Stormy editor Inbal B. Lessner ACE following the release of the film at the 2024 SXSW Film & TV...
A Conversation with Martin Horyna from KVIFF
During the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Martin Horyna, a festival curator and freelance film...
SXSW 2024 | Audiences Awards
It comes as no shock to anyone who has been even paying passing attention to this year’s SXSW festival from the Headliner section Dev...
SXSW 2024 | The Black Sea
The Black Sea, from award-winning filmmaker Crystal Moselle (The Wolfpack) and multi-faceted musical artist Derrick B. Hardin (Dear Derrick), takes inspiration from their travels...
Niagara Falls International Short Festival Online Screening
The Niagara Falls International Short Festival is a seasonal online film festival dedicated to showcasing short films. With an emphasis on brevity and creativity,...
SXSW 2024 | Stormy
As Donald Trump charges through a sea of criminal indictments towards yet another presidential nomination, Stormy - Sarah Gibson’s documentary about controversial figure Stormy...
SXSW 2024 | Can
The young Californian director and visual artist, Kailee McGee, presents another autobiographical work at SXSW, starting from her battle against cancer to tell the...
SXSW 2024 | Roleplay
“Sexual Assault! Gay people!” A queer student says this in Katie Mathews feature documentary Roleplay, the story of a theatre group developing a play...
SXSW 2024 | Mamifera
One of the most anticipated films at this year's SXSW is certainly the feature film by Liliana Torres. After Family Tour (2013) and What...
SXSW 2024 | Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
It would be easy consider the current surge of transgender performers to be a contemporary phenomenon, but Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story,...
SXSW 2024 | Film & TV Festival First Look
One of the most significant cultural events of the year is fast approaching, as preparations for the 31stedition of the South by Southwest (SXSW)...
SXSW 2024 | SXSW Announces Comedy Festival Lineup
The SXSW Comedy Festival, part of the larger South by Southwest Festival and Conference since 2008, returns to Austin this month for five days...
Berlinale 2024 | Autofictions of Iranian Women in Exile: a Berlinale Affair
At the 74th Berlinale, two autofictions of Iranians in exile produced in Germany seem to echo Scorsese’s statement. At the press conference for his honorary...
Berlinale 2024 | Memories of a Burning Body
Antonella Sudasassi Furniss’s dramatic feature film, Memories of a Burning Body, which was co-produced by Costa Rica and Spain, made its global debut on...
Berlinale 2024 | The Secret Drawer
Berlinale 74, Forum section. Sometimes we still discover small gems, and Costanza Quatriglio certainly offers us one. The Italian director made her debut in...
Berlinale 2024 | Reas
Lola Arias, actress, writer, and theater director, ventures into the world of cinema behind the cameras in 2018 with Teatro De Guerra. Her second...
Berlinale 2024 | Through Rocks and Clouds
A delicate drama was presented at the 74th edition of the Berlinale in the Generation K Plus sidebar section. Following Southern Wind (2018) -...
Berlinale 2024 | My Stolen Planet
Farahnaz Sharifi was born in 1979, three weeks after the Islamic Revolution in Iran. She’s lived under dictatorship her entire life. Her brilliant documentary...
Berlinale 2024 | Faruk
For the third time in the Panorama section of the Berlinale after her second feature film Lifelong and her first German-language feature film All...
Berlinale 2024 | Above The Dust
Wang Xiaoshuai returns to the Berlinale, depicting the dramatic migration from countryside to city, focusing on an entire village in northeastern China transitioning to...
Berlinale 2024 | The Festival’s Task? To Affect How We Think
The 74th Berlinale is taking place from the 15th until the 25th of February 2024, and once again it attracted the media’s attention before...
Berlinale 2024 | Cu Li Never Cries
The Berlinale, also known as the Berlin International Film Festival, is one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. In its 74th...
Berlinale 2024 | Who Do I Belong To
Who Do I Belong To, the assured feature film debut from Tunisian-American director Meryam Joobeur, weaves a mystical and mysterious tale of atonement and...
Berlinale 2024 | Les Paradis de Diane
Does giving birth make a woman a mother? Les Paradis de Diane, co-directed by Carmen Jaquier and Jan Glassman, makes an exploration of one...
Berlinale 2024 | Memories of a Burning Body
Memories of a Burning Body, the second feature film from Costa Rican director Antonella Sudassani Furniss, takes a rare close look at sexuality through...
Berlinale 2024 | The Editorial Office
The Editorial Office is a satire in the way it’s filmed and framed… however, the political and media landscape it exaggerates hardly feels overly...
Berlinale 2024 | Young Hearts
Is it enough for a movie to be nice? Yes. Is it okay for a movie to relentlessly tug at your heartstrings? If you’re...
Berlinale 2024 | Marija’s Silence
The 74th edition of the Berlinale once again delves into the tragedy of totalitarianism with Marija's Silence, which had its international premiere as part of...
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During the Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie was able to interview Marie Zeniter...
Rotterdam Film Festival 2024 | 78 Days
Emilija Gašić skillfully employs the home-video format of Hi8 tapes to depict a family's experience in Serbia during the spring of 1999 and narrate...
Rotterdam Film Festival 2024 | Godsterminal
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Rotterdam Film Festival 2024 | Small Hours of the Night
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Rotterdam Film Festival 2024 | The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
Legacy, how do we define it, capture it, quantify it? You create a legacy with your actions in life, but for most, how that...
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Rotterdam Film Festival 2024 | The Light
The Rotterdam International Film Festival is scheduled to continue until Sunday, February 4, having begun on Thursday, January 25. Professionals in the film industry...
Rotterdam Film Festival 2024 | Eternal
I was almost immediately aware of the cinematography in Ulaa Salim’s Eternal (For evigt). The camera was rarely static, almost always moving, especially in...
Rotterdam Film Festival 2024 | Praia Formosa
Texture. That was the first thing I noticed in Praia Formosa from filmmaker Julia De Simone, was how richly textured the film. The entire...
La Chimera: Alice Rohrwacher in a film that will divide the audience.
Presented at the main showcase of the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or and won the...
Red Sea Fund with Emad Z. Eskander
During the Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Emad Z. Eskander the Head...
A Conversation with Tom McSorley
During the Toronto Film Festival, Universal Film & Television Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Tom McSorley who is the executive director of the Canadian Film...
Julien Razafindranaly of Films Boutique
Universal Film & Television Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Julien Razafindranaly who has been a Head of Sales for Films Boutique for almost four years,...
Mean Girls Revisited Again
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Sundance Film Festival 2024 | Your Monster
Caroline Lindy’s Your Monster rests on several distinct worlds, each with their own rich traditions. No wonder critics have been unsure how to categorize...
Guadalajara International Film Festival with Pavel Cortes
During the Toronto Film Festival, Universal Film & Television Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Pavel Cortes the Director of Programming for the Guadalajara International Film...
A Trip to the IFC Center with Harris Dew
During the Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie was able to interview Harris Dew,...
The Lesson: When Form Eclipses Meaning
The fascinating confluence of cinema and literature has always been profoundly admirable, whether the films bring out the autobiographical aspects of the industry or...
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The Teacher’s Lounge: A delve into the Heart of Chaos
The Teacher’s Lounge, skillfully directed by Çatak, shines in all aspects - from its inventive concept to its captivating plot to its visually stunning...
Talking BAC Films with Alexis Hofmann
During the Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF), Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie was able to interview Alexis Hofmann,...
A Conversation with Taku Kato of Nikkatsu Japan
During the Venice Film Festival, Universal Film & Television Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Taku Kato who works for Nikkatsu in Japan doing international sales....
On Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight with Hervé Aubron
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Discussing Nitrato Filmes with Cristina Mota
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Ferrari – A Review
Much of Michael Mann’s Ferrari (written by Troy Kennedy Martin) focuses on Enzo Ferrari (played by Adam Driver) caught between his dissolving relationship with...
Moonshot with Kasia Karwan
During the Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie was able to interview Kasia Karwan...
The Old Oak: The Need for Insight Renovation
Cruising through the frames of photos with an absorbing camera’s shutter sound at the very first scenes of The Old Oak, 87-year-old Ken Loach...
Perfect Days: An Existential Quest in a Daily Life
The cinematic narrative of films has long been touted as an exploration of human existence on Earth and occasionally beyond. With tales, complex meanings...
Red Sea Film Festival 2023 | An Interview with Baloji on Omen
Hypnagogic Congolese melodrama Omen is a film of many contradictions, not least of which is its status as Belgium’s 2024 Oscar submission. The story...
The Promised Land, Where Humans Will Win the Nature Determination
Initially, films were created to satisfy the desire for entertainment. However, as time progressed, the historical, political, cultural, and psychological dimensions of movies began...
Saltburn: The Destination of a Gothic Thriller
The scholarship boy is walking through the Oxford University campus while the music plays in the background of the very first scenes of Saltburn—God...
Red Sea Film Festival 2023 | Omen
A masked woman rides across the desert on horseback. She stops at an oasis, pulls down her shirt and pumps milk out of her...
Cyrus Film Festival 2023 | A Beacon of Hope for Iranian Cinema
In the heart of winter, from 15th to 17th December, the city of Toronto swathed itself in the vibrant cultures and stunning artistry of...
Leave The World Behind: a must-see now on Netflix
Adaptation of the eponymous novel by Rumaan Alam, which received the National Book Award for Narrative in 2020, and directed by the Egyptian-American screenwriter...
Evil Does Not Exist (2023): Hamaguchi’s latest masterpiece is now in cinemas
Presented in preview at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, Evil Does Not Exist wins the Golden Lion for Best Director, confirming Ryūsuke Hamaguchi as one...
The Last Snow: a stunning drama from Iran presented at the Red Sea Film...
After its successful premiere at the 40th Fajr Film Festival in Tehran, where it garnered numerous accolades including the Special Jury Prize, Best Actor,...
Nicolás Guillér Landrián is Alive and so is his Obsession for Creative Freedom
On the 20th anniversary of his death, and 85th of his birth, the Cuban Institute for Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) celebrates Nicolás Guillér...
“Napoleon” by Ridley Scott: almost a good movie.
There are two ways to make films: to make easy films, and to make difficult films.
Throughout his career, Ridley Scott has always chosen one...
Afreet Merati – A Review
One of the most delightful quirks of classical cinema is how much films used to appreciate the movies themselves. Movie-love pervades many of the...
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Red Sea Film Festival 2023 | Dispatch #2
Jeddah, a port city on the Red Sea, played host to one of the largest film festivals from November 30th to December 9th, 2023....
Red Sea Film Festival 2023 | Roxana
An intelligent glimpse into the Iranian working class is presented at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah in December 2023. Directed by Parviz...
Red Sea Film Festival 2023 | The Teacher
“The sky was perfect blue; the day was wonderful, and the olive harvest was generous.” These are the first sentences that “Adam” is reading...
Red Sea Film Festival 2023 | One Of A Kind – Wahkri
A film that derives strength solely from being inspired by a tragic story that occurred in 2016 is the one presented at the Red...
Red Sea Film Festival 2023 | Saleem
Saudi Arabia's Jeddah is hosting the prestigious Red Sea Film Festival for its third year. A large gathering of individuals from diverse sectors of...
Red Sea Film Festival 2023 | Night Courier
The third edition of the Red Sea Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) commenced in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on November 30, 2023. Its expanding influence...
Red Sea Film Festival 2023 | Priscilla
Despite a varied filmography that spans genres, Sofia Coppola always tackles her work with a clear POV, from her early explorations of loss in The...
Red Sea Film Festival 2023 | Dispatch #1
On November 30, 2023, in Jeddah, the 3rd Edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) kicked off with its Opening...
King Khat: an interesting form of animation directed by Uri Marantz premieres in Tallinn
The experimental black comedy directed by Uri Marantz had its premiere at the 27th edition of the Black Night Film Festival in Tallinn. Inspired by...
In the PöFF Shorts section, Abbas Taheri’s work: There is no Friends House makes...
This short film is a Franco-Iranian co-production that once again highlights one of the growing problems faced by most festivals: hosting films with content...
The Killer (2023): the new David Fincher now on Netflix
The same year when John Woo is shooting the remake of The Killer (the Korean revenge movie that made him famous in the ‘80s),...
Gazing at the New Horizon; Red Sea Film Festival on the Way
Along with the many other advancements the kingdom has achieved in recent years, such as economic, cultural, and touristic ones, Saudi Arabia is also...
Dream Scenario (2023): Nicolas Cage at his best in a disturbing and intelligent movie
After gaining international fame with the recent Sick Of Myself (2022), presented at last year's Cannes Film Festival, the Norwegian director and editor Kristoffer...
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Walking in silence, following fireflies | Review of Marrying the Night
Contemplation is a revolutionary act, not a bourgeois luxury. This is what g. olmo stuppia suggests through his work, Sposare la notte – literally...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023 | The Writer
The films made about queer lives have almost been engaged with the common challenges about the relationship – youth, physical connection, and rare seen...
Many Shades, Little Light | Review of A Sun
Two people riding a motorbike in the dark pouring rain, a fast walk through the backyard of a restaurant. The warmth of a family...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023 | Amal
Set in a bustling Brussels school, “Amal” takes the viewers on a problematic and unavoidable journey of ideological prejudice and tolerance. Directed by Jawad...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023 | Baan
L (Carolina Miragaia) lives between two worlds: Bangkok and Lisbon. Apparently far, they are not as distant as someone would imagine. They are both...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023 | Skunk
The film Skunk from filmmaker Koen Mortier based on the novel by Geert Taghon opens with the script, “Every child has a story to...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023 | Winter Howl
Matias Rojas Valencia had already explored the dark period of Colonia Dignidad with the fictional feature film A Place Called Dignity, which premiered at...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023 | Monogamia
The Israeli documentary Monogamia has won the International Critics' Week of Locarno Film Festival 2023, and since November 3rd, it has also landed at...
The Dish on DIFF
During TIFF, Universal Film & Television Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Andrea Voges the festival manager and head of programming for the Durban International Film...
Julia Weigl of the Munich Film Festival (FILMFEST MÜNCHEN)
During TIFF, Universal Film & Television Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Julia Weigl, Artistic Co-Director of the Munich Film Festival. She works closely together with...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023 | Five and half Love Stories in an...
Shakespeare Sonnets are to bring out love, but Tomas Vengris, Lithuanian/American filmmaker, by hiring five sonnets in his Five and half Love Stories in...
Where the Tracks End, the Hope Might Begin
Making film out of poverty and deprivation in a rural area seems not that challenging as the stories find the narrative forms through the...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023 | Nobody Leaves Alive
The Colônia Hospital was founded in 1903 under the direction of Dr. Joaquim Antônio Dutra. Located in the Brazilian municipality of Barbacena, in the...
Xavier Giannoli on Of Blood and Money
Universal Film & Television Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Writer/Director Xavier Giannoli about his new series Of Blood and Money (D'argent et de sang).
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Conversation with South International Series Festival Director Joan Alvarez
Universal Film & Television Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed South International Series Festival’s Director Joan Alvarez to discuss the inaugural festival and its future.
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AFI FEST Film Festival 2023 | Fallen Leaves
I caught AFI’s last-minute addition of Fallen Leaves, the Cannes Palme d’Or Jury Prize winner, and Finland’s Best International Feature Film entry at the...
AFI FEST Film Festival 2023 | American Fiction
Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction will probably be one of the buzziest films in Hollywood this award season, if the audience at AFI is anything...
A Short Story (2022): little pearl directed by Bi Gan
The Chinese director of Hmong ethnicity, born in 1989, Bi Gan is undoubtedly one of the most important filmmakers of his generation, and certainly...
AFI FEST Film Festival 2023 | Freud’s Last Session
It didn’t take long into the AFI World Premiere of Freud’s Last Session (directed by Matt Brown) to realize screenwriter Mark St. Germain adapted...
AFI FEST Film Festival 2023 | Quiz Lady
Quiz Lady had a premiere at the El Capitan during AFI ahead of its release on Hulu (and Star on Disney+) on November 8th. ...
A Conversation with Leslie Ann Coles on Female Eye Film Festival
During the Toronto Film Festival, Universal Film & Television Journal’s editor Amir Ganjavie interviewed Leslie Ann Coles, the founder of Female Eye Film Festival....
El Conde; A Political Darkness through the Fantasy
Vampire films have become a popular subgenre within the horror filmmaking industry. These films typically revolve around mythical creatures who are known as vampires,...
Reel Asian Film Festival with Aram Siu Wai Collier
During the Toronto Film Festival, Universal Film & Television Journal’s editor, Amir Ganjavie, interviewed Aram Siu Wai Collier the artistic director of Reel Asian...
A Strange Way of Life: Almodovar’s most recent work. A short movie now on...
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A Man Called Otto: starring Tom Hanks, the 2022 is available on PrimeVideo
Tom Hanks produces and stars in a film that is the second cinematic adaptation of the book “A Man Called Ove”, an international success...
Killers of the Flower Moon – A Review
Every story is told from a perspective, a point of view. In a film that is multiplied as there is the perspective of the...
A Conversation with Rebecca Fons
During the Toronto Film Festival, Universal Film & Television Journal’s editor Amir Ganjavie interviewed Rebecca Fons, the director of programming at the Gene Siskel Film...
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Me Captain – A Feelgood Odyssey Towards Fortress Europe
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The Inaugural South International Series Festival Lifts Off in Cádiz Oct. 6-12, 2023
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I Have Electric Dreams: From the Locarno success in 2022, now available for streaming...
“I don’t understand why you prefer me when I’m drunk, as if I were a trapped genie that you freed from the bottle. You...
Conversation with Anick Poirier
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The South International Series Festival (SISF) is a renowned event that celebrates and showcases international television series. Held from October 6th to 12th in...
Fair Play – A Review
Fair Play was THE film at Sundance this year that got all the buzz with its reported 20-million-dollar Netflix acquisition. The debut feature from...
A Chat with Charades
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South International Series Festival is on the way
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A Million Miles Away: The Story of Will and Perseverance
"There are no borders when you view the Earth from space." These words are not only uttered by Jose M. Hernandez, a Mexican American...
San Sebastian Film Festival 2023 | Gamma Rays
Blurring the lines between fiction and documentary, the Canadian feature Gamma Rays follows several young adults from diverse communities in Montréal, Quebec as they...
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Giornate degli Autori with Gaia Furrer
During the Venice Film Festival, Universal Film & Television Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Gaia Furrer, who was appointed the Artistic Director for Venice Film...
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Toronto Film Festival 2023 | Defiant
Toronto International Film Festival showcases a remarkable collection of compelling and essential works in its esteemed DOCS Section of 2023. Among these standout films...
“The Passenger” Drives Us Through the Road of Transformation
Directed by the talented Carter Smith, The Passenger takes audiences on a thrilling and enigmatic journey that will leave them questioning reality. This psychological...
San Sebastian Film Festival 2023 | Un Silence
A family struggles with the devastating fallout when a long-held secret is finally revealed in Un Silence, the latest from Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse.
From...
An Interview with Roger Gibson of Chichester International Film Festival
During the Venice Film Festival, Universal Film & Television Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Roger Gibson the Artistic Director for the Chichester International Film Festival,...
Beau Is Afraid – A Journey to The Heart of Turmoil
Ari Aster, renowned for his distinctive take on the horror genre, extends his experience in his new film, Beau is Afraid. The film merges...
A Spotlight on Lights On
During the Venice Film Festival, Universal Film & Television Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Flavio Armone, who co-founded the Torino, Italy-based Lights On in 2015.
Amir...
Toronto Film Festival 2023 | Songs Of The Earth
. “When fjord and water lie at rest, a tranquil realm reflected, deep within our hearts and souls, the world we love projected”. Directed...
Toronto Film Festival 2023 | Copa 71
Directed by Rachel Ramsey and James Erskine, Copa 71 opened the Documentary section of Toronto International Film Festival 2023. The duo had already worked...
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Every so often a new festival launches with a specific targeted focus that sets it apart from other festivals. That is the case with...
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Venice Film Festival 2023 | Tatami
2019, Tokyo Judo World Championship. Athlete Saeid Mollai is forced by the Iranian authorities to intentionally lose the semi-finals. Their aim is to preclude...
Film in Florida: An interview with Matthew Curtis, Programming Director for the Florida Film...
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Matthew Curtis about the film selection process and working at the Florida Film Festival.
This interview...
Past Lives by Celine Song
The realm of film-making invites creators to communicate their visions and stories through multifarious narratives. The artistic realm of Celine Song, known for her...
Toronto Film Festival 2023 | Spirit of Ecstasy
Spirit of Ecstasy is a coming-of-age story that follows a brilliant and ambitious non-binary person as they doggedly pursue a career and life beyond...
Toronto Film Festival 2023 | Summer Qamp
When I heard about the TIFF World Premiere of Jen Markowitz’s Summer Qamp I was immediately drawn to it like fireflies to tall grass...
Jerusalem Film Festival: A Conversation with Roni Mahdav-Levin
During Cannes 2023, Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Roni Mahadav-Levin the Executive Director of the Jerusalem Film Center, which runs...
Toronto Film Festival 2023 | Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
In Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, a young vampire with an empathy problem finds help from a human teen suffering from depression.
Québécois filmmaker...
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Venice Film Festival 2023 | Making Of
A veteran filmmaker shooting his next project about a factory worker uprising finds fiction and reality colliding as he faces an impending film shutdown...
Venice Film Festival 2023 | God is a Woman
In God is a Woman, the indigenous Kuna community in Panama’s Guna Yala islands track down a long-lost documentary made about them but never...
Venice Film Festival 2023 | Following The Sound
It’s been 12 years since his first feature, and Kyoshi Sugita doesn’t stop surprising the audience worldwide with the gentle poetry of his movies....
Venice Film Festival 2023 | Poor Things
Poor Things, the most peculiar and remarkable film by Yorgos Lanthimos, shook the 80th Venice Film Festival and won the Golden Lion. An extraordinary...
Venice Film Festival 2023 | The Red Suitcase
Opening with a stunning scene of desolate grandeur, The Red Suitcase by Fidel Devkota, transports us to a world where every frame communicates a...
Venice Film Festival 2023 | Sea Salt
From Lebanon directly to the shore of Venice, Sea Salt crosses the Mediterranean Sea to dock in the Italian kermess, where it premieres in...
Venice Film Festival 2023 | Malqueridas
Directed by Tana Gilbert, Malqueridas premieres at SIC (Settimana Internazionale della Critica). Her first short documentary Rest, Zulema (2013) had received multiple accolades in...
Venice Film Festival 2023 | Forever Forever
Anna Buryachkova presents at Venice International Film Festival her debut feature, which premieres in the section Orizzonti Extra.
After a relevant experience in film, music, social...
Venice Film Festival 2023 | Coup de Chance
An apparently happy couple, the sexy third, infidelity, ambiguities and chance, parks and architectures of a beautiful European city. These are the main symptoms...
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Richard Linklater’s Comedy Thriller ‘Hit Man’ Draws Killer Reception in Venice
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Ethan Hawke ‘Couldn’t Care Less’ About Directing Maya Hawke’s ‘Wildcat’ Sex Scenes
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Venice Film Festival 2023 | Snow Leopard
The Giornate degli Autori of Venice International Film Festival 2023 presents a film that will be remembered as the last one of master filmmakers,...
Lanthimos’ Pinocchio – Poor Things Review
Yorgos Lanthimos’ last creature is an imperfect and probably therefore overly charming Poor Thing(s). The mesmerizing Emma Stone plays Bella, a sort of female...
We believe in a militant and political cinema / Interview with directors of Brucia...
Brucia ancora dentro (It still burns inside, 2023) is an essential, ruthless and powerful documentary. It recounts the last twenty years of Milanese struggles...
Venice Film Festival 2023 | Heartless
The Venice Film Festival (VFF) is famously renowned as the world's oldest film festival, heralded as one of the most prestigious film festivals across...
Venice Film Festival 2023 | Backstage
The Vince film festival is currently underway, and the directors are vying for the Golden Lion (Leone d'Oro). In recent years, the popularity of...
Before, Now & Then – A Review
I went into watching filmmaker Kamila Andini’s Before, Now & Then knowing that Laura Basuki won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance at...
It’s All About Saying I Was There: An Interview with Grainne Humphreys of the...
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Grainne Humphreys, Festival Director of the Dublin International Film Festival. Their conversation touches on the...
We Know What We Are And We Know What We Are Not: An Interview...
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Chris Clark, Artistic Director of Cinema St. Louis. Their conversation touches on the film selection...
Sarajevo Film Festival 2023 | Libertate
“Libertate”: The story of the Romanian revolution in Sibiu told by Tudor Giorgiu in a brave and disorienting film. Sarajevo Film Festival once again...
Sarajevo Film Festival 2023 | Lost Country
Vladimir Perisic presents at Sarajevo Film Festival 2023, a brave film that shows the human side of the power system. Since the time of...
Locarno Film Festival 2023 | Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of...
After winning at Berlinale 2021 with Badluck Banging or Loony Porn, Radu Jude contended in the main competition of Locarno Film Festival 2023, where...
Sarajevo Film Festival 2023 | Charlie Kaufman
Charlie Kaufman, American screenwriter, director, producer, and Oscar winner was awarded the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo for his exceptional contribution to the art of...
Bouncing Back: An Interview with Kate Taylor, Programme Director of the Edinburgh International Film...
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s editor, Amir Ganjavie, interviewed Kate Taylor of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (The festival runs this year between...
People Are Quite Happy To Just Walk Past Lesbian Nuns These Days: An Interview...
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Simon Killen of Hi Gloss Entertainment. Their conversation touches on the Australian and New Zealand...
Sarajevo Film Festival 2023 | Interview with Rada Šešić
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s editor, Amir Ganjavie, recently interviewed Rada Šešić, a filmmaker, critic, lecturer, and the head of the Documentary Competition...
Sarajevo Film Festival 2023 | Interview with Elma Tataragić
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s editor, Amir Ganjavie’ recently interviewed Elma Tataragić, the head of the International Competition section for the Sarajevo Film...
We Get a Little Bit Weird: An Interview with the Atlanta Film Society’s Jonathan...
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Jonathan Kieran, programming director for the Atlanta Film Society. Their conversation touches on the selection...
Sarajevo Film Festival 2023 | Anatomy of a Fall
After winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes and passing through the Locarno festival on the Piazza Grande, Anatomy of a Fall finally lands at...
Sarajevo Film Festival 2023 | Sarajevo Dispatch #1
In the heart of the Balkans, where the Metropolis of Sarajevo weaves history, culture, and modernity, the largest film festival in Southeast Europe evolves....
Guilty Pleasures: A conversation with Anna Kopecka, Director of Programming at the Cork International...
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Anna Kopecka, Director of Programming for the Cork International Film Festival. Their conversation touches on...
Locarno Film Festival 2023 | The Vanishing Soldier
Presenting the world premiere of The Vanishing Soldier – which competes in the main category inLocarno Film Festival76 - is not only the director,...
Locarno Film Festival 2023 | Manga D’Terra
After Até Vera Luz (2012) and O Fim Do Mundo (2019), Basil Da Cunha returns to the feature with Manga D'Terra. Like the 2019...
Locarno Film Festival 2023 | Critical Zone
We often wonder about the role of cinema, the power of art. And how much we’re willing to sacrifice ourselves in order to leave...
Locarno Film Festival 2023 | The Human Surge 3
I have not seen Eduardo Williams’ film The Human Surge (El auge del humano), but I imagine it is a lot like his The...
Locarno Film Festival 2023 | First Case
The presumption of innocence. That is the bedrock of many legal systems. Innocent until proven guilty. While the actual phrasing means that unless guilt...
Locarno Film Festival 2023 | Baan
L (Carolina Miragaia) lives between two worlds: Bangkok and Lisbon. Apparently far, they are not as distant as someone would imagine. They are both...
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Billy Porter Says ‘I Have to Sell My House’ Due to Strikes, Slams Bob Iger for Saying ‘Our Demands for a Living Wage Are...
Locarno Film Festival 2023 | Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere
You are often confronted when watching documentaries with the role of the camera and the person behind the camera because their presence impacts the...
Locarno Film Festival 2023 | Stepne
“Stepne”, an enthralling motion picture presenting at the Locarno Film Festival 2023, is undoubtedly a cinematic masterpiece that leaves an indelible imprint on the...
Locarno Film Festival 2023 | the program of the much-awaited Swiss event
Anticipation was high for the 76th edition of Locarno Film Festival, one of Europe's leading independent film circuits. The prize is the much-coveted Pardo,...
Locarno Film Festival 2023 | The Permanent Picture
Laura Ferrés, an award-winning filmmaker for her short film The Disinherited, makes her feature debut with The Permanent Image which speaks of the human...
Locarno Film Festival 2023 | Essential Truths of the Lake
A veteran police officer in the Philippines lately disillusioned by his job decides to reopen an old cold case in Essential Truths of the...
Locarno Film Festival 2023 | Todos Los Incendios (All the Fires)
In director Mauricio Calderón Rico’s feature debut, Todos Los Incendios, a teenaged pyromaniac runs away from his struggles with loss, his sense of self,...
Locarno Film Festival 2023 | La Morsure (Bitten)
A subtly disturbing atmosphere opens the first feature film by Romain de Saint-Blanquat, premiering at Locarno film festival on August 5th. With his latest...
Locarno Film Festival 2023 | La Bella Estate (The Beautiful Summer)
Director Laura Luchetti’s latest feature, La Bella Estate, deftly explores universal coming-of-age themes as it follows one young woman’s journey of self-discovery.
Set in Turin...
“Family Portrait”; Kerr’s dazzling frame on the screen
Lucy Kerr's directorial debut, "Family Portrait," showcases at the prestigious Locarno Film Festival 2023, presents an emotionally stirring narrative that explores the complexities of...
Locarno Film Festival 2023 | Animal
Animal, the sophomore feature from writer/director Sofia Exarchou, asks the audience to consider the workers, in this case, the performers, at a luxury hotel...
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Barbiearchy, the Movie
First shock: queue. the screening was sold out at a nearby small neighbourhood cinema with a queue up to the front door. Second shock:...
Dreamin’ Wild – A Review
Success can be measured by various metrics. Success is ultimately a personal thing. What I consider to be achieving success in my career may...
Fallen Leaves: another masterpiece from the Finnish director
Kaurismaki's works are not just audiovisual gems. They are windows to the heart. Like few auteurs on the contemporary scene, the Finnish director is...
Digital Technology and the new achievements in film industry in the age of AI
Digital technology has revolutionized the film industry, bringing about unprecedented advancements and transforming the way films are made, distributed, and experienced. From digital cameras...
“Oppenheimer”; Much Ado About Nothing
"Oppenheimer" takes two full hours with repetitive scenes, endless dialogues, and a tiresome atmosphere, accompanied by an extended music (from the beginning to the...
IndieWire
Without Actors to Record ADR, Even Sound Mixers Are Out of Work
The Witcher: Season 3, Vol. I. – A Review
Hardcore fans worldwide can take a sigh of relief: the first volume of the third season of the much awaited The Witcher has recently been...
A Dynamic Epic to Velocity – “The Flash” Directed by Andrés Muschietti
The realm of superhero films brims with experiences of epic narratives and breath-taking special effects. The Flash, directed by Andrés Muschietti, propels us into...
Sleepiness: A Review of Afire
For maximum immersion, you should watch this movie while sleepy. In director Christian Petzold’s Afire, Thomas Schubert plays Leon, a young novelist struggling to...
Black Mirror: old was good, new is gold?
It’s like an episode of Black Mirror! This expression has become of common use to describe a dystopia in which technology takes over, while...
Variety
‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning’ Makes Mighty Debut Atop U.K. Box Office as ‘Barbenheimer’ Looms
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Danny Elfman Allegedly Defaults on Sexual Harassment Settlement
The Out-Laws – A Review
The title of The Out-Laws and its play on words may be the cleverest thing about this predictable comedic heist film, but that doesn’t...
Representativity Not Just On Paper: An Interview with Eva Sangiorgi, Artistic Director of the...
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Eva Sangiorgi about the Viennale’s peculiarities and finding true diversity.
This interview has been edited for...
The Dangers of AI – Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1
After the extraordinary blockbuster success of Mission Impossible 6 - which turned out to be the most profitable in the history of the saga,...
No Matter How Far You Run; The Shadows Are Chasing You – Run Rabbit...
The realm of cinema is replete with examples of films that force hidden emotions to surface and take the audience on a rollercoaster ride...
Thrown Together: A review of Tori and Lokita
Premiering last year at the Cannes Film Festival, Tori and Lokita, from the two-time Palme D’or winning directing team of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes,...
Never Have I Ever – The Final Season
It is an achievement for any series to end in a place where the story has a natural or planned conclusion. The number of...
If It’s Really Not Worth Continuing, You Stop: An Interview with Filmfest Hamburg’s Albert...
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Albert Wiederspiel of the Filmfest Hamburg. Their conversation touches on boycotts and bringing in a...
Joy Ride – A Review
A joy ride, by definition, is a journey taken for pleasure, which describes the titular film well. Okay, sure, it’s a ride taken for...
Return to Seoul – Film Review
Mubi has just released a film that will be visible on the streaming platform for the month of July, after its première at Cannes...
Calgary International Film Festival with Brian Owens
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Brian Owens the Artistic Director for the Calgary International Film Festival. What follows are...
Values Aligning: An Interview with Clint Bowie of the New Orleans Films Festival
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Clint Bowie, artistic director for the New Orleans Film Festival. Their conversation touches on the...
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Reese Witherspoon Says She “Didn’t Have Control Over” Sex Scene in ‘Fear’ With Mark Wahlberg
A Conversation with Karel Och of Karlovy Vary
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Karel Och the Artistic Director for the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. What follows are...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2023 | Smiling Georgia
“They don’t do anything; they just say things.”
An elderly man says to his friend while sitting on the ground in a beautifully illuminated forest...
On Cambridge Film Festival: An interview with Tony Jones
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Tony Jones, who began his career in independent cinema in Birmingham, England in the...
The Boston Strangler – Film Review
Directed by Matt Ruskin and with a starring role from Keira Knightley, The Boston Strangler is a film that engrosses one in its grim...
Indiana Jones 5, A catastrophe – A Review
Time travelling, obscure objects dating thousands of years ago, new plans for a revival of Nazism, kids improvised as airplane pilots merge with chasings...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2023 | Imago
In Imago, a young woman struggling to find her path in 1980s Poland finds freedom, love and self-expression in the bourgeoning alternative music scene.
The...
Mommy Gets to Make the Decision: An Interview with Riki Kuchek
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Riki Kucheck from the Newport Beach Film Festival. Their conversation touches the selection process and...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2023 | Keeping Mum
After Oh La Pauline (2015), in 2023, Emile Brisavoine presents to the public yet another intimate documentary that draws us into her life, her past...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2023 | In Camera
In Naqqash Khalid’s debut feature, In Camera, a struggling British actor caught in a cycle of nightmarish auditions must decide how far he is...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2023 | Arsenie: An Amazing Afterlife
In Arsenie: An Amazing Afterlife, director Alexandru Solomon sets out on a pilgrimage with a group of believers to understand Romanian society’s obsession with...
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Nicolas Cage Set for Career Tribute at Fantasia Film Festival
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2023 | Empty Nets
On first glance Empty Nets may sound like a typical old-fashioned Iranian film with the oft-used tale of a poor boy in love with...
A Conversation with João Federici about Mill Valley Film Festival and Mix Brasil
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed João Federici from the Mill Valley Film Festival. Their conversation touches on the film selection...
Asteroid City – A Review
Pastel colors, miniatures shots, geometric compositions, and a mix of big stars like Tilda Swinton, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, and Adrien Brody are Wes...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2023 | The Lost Children
Karlovy Vary Film Festival presents the first feature of Michèle Jacob, The Lost Children.
After her short film JULY 96, Belgian director Michèle Jacob presents...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2023 | Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
The documentary “Dancing on the edge of a volcano” directed by Cyril Aris, was premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2023: A tale...
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Mads Mikkelsen Isn’t Interested in ‘Cutie Pie’ Roles Because He Prefers Playing ‘Losers’
Innovation and Technology in Film: A conversation with Michael Rabehl, Director of Programming for...
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Michael Rabehl, Director of Programming for the Cinequest Film Festival in Silicon Valley. Their conversation...
Celebrating Writers: A conversation with Andy Volk, Senior Film Programmer for the Austin Film...
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Andy Volk from the Austin Film Festival. Their conversation touches on the film selection process...
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Mel Gibson, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich and More: “Czech” Out the Big Stars of Karlovy Vary Fest Trailers
Discover, Be Discovered: An Interview with the Raindance Film Festival’s Elliot Grove
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Elliot Grove, founder of the Raindance Film Festival. Their conversation touches on the selection process,...
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BAFTA Formally Announces Sara Putt as New Chair
CPH:DOX with Niklas Engstrøm
During Cannes 2023, Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Niklas Engstrøm the Artistic Director for Copenhagen Film Festivals, which includes CPH:DOX...
On the Windsor Waterfront – The Windsor International Film Festival
During Cannes 2023, Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Dr. Vincent Georgie, the Executive Director and Chief Programmer of the Windsor...
A Little South Australian Hospitality with the Adelaide Film Festival
During Cannes 2023, Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Mathew Kesting, the Chief Executive and the Creative Director of the Adelaide...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Tiina Lokk, the founder and Festival Director of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival....
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Jennifer Lawrence on Raunchy Comedy ‘No Hard Feelings’: ‘Everybody Will Be Offended by This Film’
An Interview with Orestis Andreadakis, Artistic Director of the Thessaloniki Film Festival
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Orestis Andreadakis, Artistic director of the Thessaloniki Film Festival. Their conversation touches on documentary and...
Busan International – A Taste of South Korea
During Cannes 2023, Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Nam Dong-chul, the Program Director for the Busan International Film Festival. The...
“In art, you can always change the rules”: A conversation with Radu Jude
After winning a Golden Bear at Berlinale 2021 with Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, Radu Jude is back with Potemkinistii, a satirical short...
Diving Deep: A conversation with Bill Morrison
The latest film by experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison (Chicago, 1965, 23 minutes) uses security cameras, police body cameras and POD to reconstruct the tragedy...
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‘Chicken for Linda!’ Wins 2023 Annecy Festival
A conversation with Richard Misek about A History of the World According to Getty...
The English director Richard Misek was one of the most anticipated filmmakers this year’s the UnArchive Found Footage Fest. After the screening of his...
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Japan’s Skip City Film Festival Retains Hybrid Format in Post-COVID Era
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John Romita, Iconic Marvel And Spider-Man Comic Book Artist, Has Died
Panorama in Berlin: A Conversation with Michael Stütz
During Cannes 2023, Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Michael Stütz, the Head of the Panorama section for the Berlin International...
Festival de Cannes 2023 | Augure
Recently shown at the Cannes Internation Film Festival, Augure from Belgian rapper turned filmmaker Baloji starts out feeling a lot like if Midsommar were...
IndieWire
‘Barbie’ Production Caused an International Pink Paint Shortage
Insight into San Sabastian: An interview with José Luis Rebordinos
During Cannes 2023, Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed José Luis Rebordinos, the Artistic Director of the San Sebastian Film Festival....
Quebec City Film Festival with Paul Landriau
During Cannes 2023, Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Paul Landriau the Head of Programming for the Quebec City Film Festival....
Ghent Film Festival: A conversation with Wim De Witte
During Cannes 2023, Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Wim De Witte the Program Director for Ghent Film Festival. What follows...
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Karlovy Vary Film Festival Unveils 2023 Lineup
Festival de Cannes 2023 | The Other Laurens
At the request of his niece, a private detective reluctantly investigates the death of his twin brother in The Other Laurens, the second feature...
Festival de Cannes 2023 | The (Ex)perience of Love
A couple struggling to conceive embark on a peculiar, doctor-prescribed mission in The (Ex)perience of Love, an offbeat relationship comedy from director duo Ann...
Festival de Cannes 2023 | All to Play For
In her fictional feature debut, director Delphine Deloget tackles family, parenthood, and the foster care system with emotional depth.
Sylvie (Virginie Efira) is a single...
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Festival de Cannes 2023 | Cannes Dispatch #2
Sunday afternoon the crew of Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d’une chute) led by director Justine Triet arrived by foot at the Grand théâtre...
Festival de Cannes 2023 | About Dry Grasses
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's films are known for their meticulous attention to detail and introspective exploration of the human psyche. His latest work, "About Dry...
Festival de Cannes 2023 | The Mother of All Lies
Recently shown at the Cannes International Film Festival, director Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies brilliantly and heartbreakingly explores tragic events from...
Festival de Cannes 2023 | Légua
Watching films set in different countries is a great way to both inspire and briefly satiated wanderlust because it’s a chance to explore worlds...
Festival de Cannes 2023 | Agra
There is a very interesting exploration of what the lack of space, the access to space, does to a family and a society in...
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Cannes’ Critics’ Week Honors Malaysian Film ‘Tiger Stripes’ With Grand Jury Prize
Festival de Cannes 2023 | On the Edge
Recently shown in the ACID section of the Cannes International Film Festival, director Nicolas Peduzzi’s documentary On the Edge follows one overworked doctor, Dr....
Festival de Cannes 2023 | The Rapture
Recently shown at the Cannes International Film Festival, The Rapture (French: Le Ravissement) starts out seeming like it might be a slow true to...
Festival de Cannes 2023 | The Buriti Flower
Crowrā (The Buriti Flower) from filmmakers João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora (with additional screenplay credits for Ilda Patpro Krahô, Francisco Hyjnõ Krahô, and...
Festival de Cannes 2023 | Corpos Cintilantes
Corpos Cintilantes (Shimmering Bodies) from filmmaker Inês Teixeira is a gentle, quiet, coming-of-age film centering on Mariana (played by Maria Abreu) who accepts an...
Festival de Cannes 2023 | Creatura
Elena Martín Gimeno starred (as Mila age 35), directed, and co-wrote (with Clara Roquet) Creatura which is an intimate film that looks at female...
Arab Cinema Shines Bright: A Golden Age Unveiled on the Cannes Red Carpet
The Arab cinema has found itself in the spotlight on the prestigious red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival. While the name Casablanca has...
Festival de Cannes 2023 | The Zone of Interest
A grey screen and a penetrating immersive sound fill the room for quite some time. Stifled voices and machinery sounds mix into what feels...
Festival de Cannes 2023 | Cannes Dispatch #1
It’s raining and raining and raining. The grey sky dives into the darker sea. However, the Croisette is an explosion of colors. A myriad...
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Christopher Nolan Confirms ‘Oppenheimer’ Is His Longest Movie and ‘Kissing Three Hours’: ‘Slightly Longer’ Than ‘Interstellar’
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Benedict Cumberbatch Cast as Pete Seeger in Bob Dylan Biopic 'A Complete Unknown'
Festival de Cannes 2023 | Johnny Depp Returns, Deneuve Shines: A Glimpse into Cannes...
The 76th Cannes Film Festival, a highly anticipated event for cinephiles and industry professionals alike, has commenced with great excitement and promises to be...
The Fire Within – A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Opening the first edition of UnArchive Found Footage Fest is the new masterpiece signed by Werner Herzog entitled THE FIRE WITHIN – A REQUIEM...
Interview with Läetita Ky, actress from “Disco Boy”
Disco Boy by Giacomo Abbruzzese is a war film, with a gaze on neocolonialism and “ancestral catharsis", but also something deeper. Impalpable intimacy and...
Interview with Justin Smith about Fantasia Film Festival
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Justin Smith, the programmer for the Underground Section at the Fantasia International Film Festival....
IndieWire
Christopher Nolan Used Actual Scientists as Extras in ‘Oppenheimer’
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If Stanley Kubrick Had His Way, You'd Never See His First Film
Hotdocs Festival 2023 | Razing Liberty Square
I’ve grown up in cities and have heard the history of many cities in North America, and what cities often have in common is...
Concrete Valley – A Review
Every story emerges from fascination for place: This is the key argument of French-Canadian director Antoine Bourges in his new movie Concrete Valley which...
Hotdocs Festival 2023 | Unsyncable
I come from the world of aquatic sports and recreation. I competed competitively in my younger years before transitioning to the lucrative world (for...
Hotdocs Festival 2023 | Allihopa: The Dalkurd Story
The world as we know it today is the result of the actions of the past. Empires and colonization. Wars and the collapsing of...
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‘DUNE‘ IS BACK WITH FIRST ‘PART TWO’ POSTER
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Mohammad Rasoulof Banned from Leaving Iran to Serve on Cannes Jury
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Malaysia’s ‘Abang Adik’ Wins Udine Festival’s Golden Mulberry
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True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto Re-Writing Marvel’s Blade Script
Interview with Hrönn Marinósdóttir about Reykjavik International Film Festival
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal's Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Hrönn Marinósdóttir, the Founder and Director of the Reykjavik International Film Festival. What follows...
A conversation with Christophe Leparc on Directors’ Fortnight
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Christophe Leparc, the Managing Director for Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. What follows, is part...
A conversation with Zoé Protat on Festival du Nouveau Cinema
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Zoé Protat, the Director of Programming for Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema. What follows...
IndieWire
Cannes Adds Films Starring Sean Penn and Viggo Mortensen to 2023 Lineup
The Buzz About Charlotte Film Festival
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Taylor Montalto the Programming Director for the Charlotte Film Festival. What follows is part...
Meet me in San Luis Obispo
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Skye McLennan the Executive Director for the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival (SLO...
Some Nuggets from Nantucket
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Anita Raswant the Lead Programmer for the Nantucket Film Festival. What follows is part...
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Juno Temple Joins Venom 3
Interview with Thong Kay Wee, the Programme Director for the Singapore Film Festival
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Thong Kay Wee the Programme Director for the Singapore International Film Festival. What follows...
A Feature on Features Programming in Cleveland
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Neha Aziz the Features Programmer for the Cleveland International Film Festival. What follows is...
Hollywood Reporter
‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ World Premiere Confirmed for Cannes Film Festival
Los Cabos International Film Festival’s Baja Roots – Interview with Maru Garzón
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Maru Garzón the Artistic Director for the Los Cabos International Film Festival. What follows...
Interview with Yaron Shamir, the Festival Director for the Haifa Film Festival
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Yaron Shamir the Festival Director for the Haifa International Film Festival. What follows is...
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Domhnall Gleeson Joins Julianne Moore in Apple Drama ‘Echo Valley’
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This Underrated 5-Hour Sci-Fi Movie Nailed Its Prediction of Today
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Box Office: ‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Barrels to Record $204 Million Debut, ‘Air’ Scores $20 Million
Zurich Film Festival: An Interview with Anja Fröhner
During the Sundance Film Festival Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Anja Fröhner the co-Head of Programme for the Zurich Film...
IndieWire
Apple Sets Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’ for November Theatrical Release: See the First Look
Riceboy Sleeps Review: Emotionally Rich Tale of Immigration and Identity
Loosely based on director Anthony Shim’s own experiences as a child immigrating to Canada with his family, Riceboy Sleeps is a deeply engaging drama...
Mutt Review: Day-in-the-Life Trans Story Navigates Relationships Past and Present
A recently transitioned trans man living in New York confronts three key relationships from his past and navigates daily discrimination in writer/director Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s...
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Interview with Carolyn Mauricette, the Director of Canadian Programming for Fantasia Fest
UniversalCinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Carolyn Mauricette, a critic, film writer, and the Director of Canadian Programming for Fantasia Fest....
Interview with Frederic Boyer, the Artistic Director for the Tribeca Film Festival
UniversalCinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Frederic Boyer the Artistic Director for the Tribeca Film Festival, who also leads and runs...
Interview with Shozo Ichiyama, the Programming Director for the Tokyo Film Festival
UniversalCinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed Shozo Ichiyama, the Programming Director for the Tokyo Film Festival. He worked for the festival...
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Oscar Winner ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Leads German Film Awards Nominations With 12
A Talk with the Deputy Director of San Sebastian
During Sundance 2023, Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Maialen Beloki, the Chief Executive and the Deputy Director of the San...
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Kate McKinnon Joins Sci-Fi Film In The Blink Of An Eye
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Bring Back Tom Bergeron! He’s the Only Choice to Host ‘Dancing with the Stars’
Shervin’s song Bara-ye is beautiful and very powerful – Interview with John Welsman, the...
During the 1990s, the TV series "Road to Avonlea" aired in Iran under the title "Island Tales" on Friday nights. Despite the heavy censorship...
Berlinale 2023 | The Quiet Migration
Recently shown at the Berlin International Film Festival, The Quiet Migration from director Malene Choi tells the story of Carl (Cornelius Won Riedel-Clausen), a...
Berlinale 2023 | And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine
Recently shown at the Berlin International Film Festival, And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine lays out clear as day how exponentially our...
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Multilingual Series 'Drops of God' Sets April Release Date on Apple TV+
Interview with James Faust, the Artistic Director for the Dallas International Film Festival
Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie recently interviewed James Faust the Artistic Director for the Dallas International Film Festival. Below is part...
Sundance Film Festival 2023 | Interview with Al Cossar the Artistic Director for the...
During the Sundance Film Festival Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Al Cossar the Artistic Director for the Melbourne International Film...
Interview with José Rodriguez about Tribeca Film Festival
During the Sundance Film Festival Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed José Rodriguez a feature film Programmer for the Tribeca Film...
Interview with Anderson Le, the Artistic Director for Hawai‘i Film Festival
During the Sundance Film Festival, Universal Cinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Anderson Le the Artistic Director for Hawai‘i International Film Festival...
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What to Expect from Oscar Night: Class, 23 Categories, and No Sofas
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‘Scream 6’ Team on “Bigger, Bloodier” Return and Continuing Without Neve Campbell: “Everyone Pivoted”
Berlinale 2023 | Delegation (Ha’Mishlahat)
Three Israeli teenagers navigate their evolving friendship during a class trip to Poland to visit Holocaust sites in director Asaf Saban’s coming-of-age drama, Ha’Mishlahat...
Berlinale 2023 | Silver Haze
Writer/director Sacha Polak explores family, love, and the effects of trauma in her latest feature, the relationship drama Silver Haze.
Fifteen years ago, Franky (Vicky...
Berlinale 2023 | The Klezmer Project (Adentro mío estoy bailando)
When the Spanish title of this movie hits the screen, it’s very different than the English translation it’s given in subtitle. Adentro mío estoy...
Berlinale 2023 | Stams
Flying through the air and swishing down the slopes comes Stams, a documentary about a boarding school in the Austrian alps for elite ski...
Berlinale 2023 | Dreams’ Gate
Shown at the recent Berlin International Film Festival, Dreams’ Gate is a briskly paced documentary about the YPJ, an all-female militia in Syrian Kurdistan...
Berlinale 2023 | The Cemetery of Cinema
Shown in the Panorama Section of the recent Berlin International Film Festival, The Cemetery of Cinema is a mesmerizing way to travel through the...
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Karyn Kusama Won’t Direct Without an Intimacy Coordinator on Set: It Makes Onscreen Sex ‘Richer’ and Safer
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Fede Alvarez’s ‘Alien’ Movie Rounds Out Cast (Exclusive)
Goodbye bears! Last dispatch from Berlinale 2023
Despite the cold and the snow, fans gathered outside Berlinale Palast to welcome all the stars and celebrities attending the closing ceremony of the...
Berlinale 2023 | All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White
From the Berlin International Film Festival comes director Babatunde Apalowo’s All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White, the story of...
Berlinale 2023 | Berlinale Dispatch #2
Early on in the Berlinale, the organizers already knew that this year was a great success, having already sold more than 267,000 tickets in...
Berlinale 2023 | Here
Discussing the length of Avatar: The Way of Water’s runtime and some of its scenes that accomplish nothing other than looking beautiful, James Cameron...
Berlinale 2023 | Absence
Premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival, director Wu Lang’s Absence opens with a barrage of beautifully composed shots set on the Chinese island...
Berlinale 2023 | The Burdened
Now playing at the Berlin International Film Festival, The Burdened from director Amr Gamal (based on a true story from his circle of friends)...
Berlinale 2023 | Cidade Rabat
Grief can be pretty funny. The weird details of daily life don’t stop just because the person who’s given birth to you has died....
Berlinale 2023 | L’ultima notte di Amore
Frequent readers know I go into most screenings as blind as possible, which can lead to very interesting results, but usually allows me to...
Berlinale 2023 | Mal Viver (Bad Living)
It’s not a secret that if you can do it, filming projects simultaneously or even back-to-back in a location, or with the same cast,...
Berlinale 2023 | Viver Mal (Living Bad)
Viver Mal (Living Bad), which premiered at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival as part of the Encounters section, is writer/director João Canijo's counterpart to Mal Viver...
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Willem Dafoe Breaks Out in Art-Heist Survival Thriller ‘Inside’
Berlinale 2023 | Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me
Mario Martone, the Italian film director and screenwriter, steps into the role of the documentarian to spotlight another Italian filmmaker and (writer/actor/director), Massimo Troisi....
Berlinale 2023 | Das Lehrerzimmer (The Teachers’ Lounge)
A series of thefts at school prompts one teacher to take matters into her own hands, but her actions lead to a spiral of...
Berlinale 2023 | Zeevonk (Sea Sparkle)
In director Domien Huyghe’s feature debut, Zeevonk (Sea Sparkle), a teenage girl sets out to prove that a gigantic sea creature is to blame...
Berlinale 2023 | Berlinale Dispatch #1
The 73rd Berlinale has just started and, before it runs it course until February 26, it will feature around 278 movies from 76 countries....
Variety
Freida Pinto, Vanessa Redgrave Board ‘Boy At the Back of the Class’ Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)
Sundance Film Festival 2023 | Interview with Lisa Dreyer on Fantastic Fest
During the Sundance Film Festival, UniversalCinema Film & TV Journal’s Amir Ganjavie interviewed Lisa Dreyer the Festival Director of Fantastic Fest, the largest genre...
“Women, Life, Freedom” has always been my personal credo – Interview with Margarethe Von...
Margarethe von Trotta is known as the world’s leading feminist filmmaker and the first female director to win the Golden Lion at Venice Film...
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All The Beauty and the Bloodshed – Film Review
All The Beauty and the Bloodshed is a documentary that will send you staggering into the night. The worlds that it traverses are wide-ranging...
HollywoodReporter
‘Sharper’ Review: Julianne Moore and Sebastian Stan in a Simmering Thriller That Never Reaches Full Boil
The Damned – Film Review
Amir Ganjavie’s third film The Damned is a philosophical and surrealistic tour de force that takes the audience on a journey through the mind...
Rotterdam Film Festival 2023 | Luka
Now playing at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Luka from writer-director Jessica Woodsworth is the extremely meditative story of a soldier awaiting a future...
Rotterdam Film Festival 2023 | We Are Next of Kin
Now playing at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, We Are Next of Kin from director Hans-Christian Schmid shows the events of a kidnapping, but...
EmpireOnline
London Critics’ Circle Film Awards Crowns TÁR As Film Of The Year
Festival Review: The Toronto Independent Film Festival of Cift
The Toronto Independent Film Festival of Cift (formally the Cineiran Festival) was founded in 2015. It is a seasonal film festival. They mixed model...
Sundance Film Festival 2023 | Iron Butterflies
In his new feature documentary, Iron Butterflies, Ukrainian filmmaker Roman Liubyi revisits the shocking tragedy of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down...
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The Menu – A Review
Sizzling, roasting, juicy food graces our screens from all angles these days — food shows have made way for chefs, servers and critics to...
Sundance Film Festival 2023 | Shortcomings
Shortcomings (directed by Randall Park and written by Adrian Tomine based on their novel of the same title) opens with what is likely a spoof on Crazy Rich...
Sundance Film Festival 2023 | Fancy Dance
If you’ve only recently started hearing about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, it is probably because you weren’t paying attention to news sources that...
Rotterdam Film Festival 2023 | 100 Seasons
I’ll do some math real quick. Premiering at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, 100 Seasons divided by 4 seasons per year equals 25 years....
Rotterdam Film Festival 2023 | La Palisiada
This movie was inscrutable for me at times but I loved most seconds of it. Premiering at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, La Palisiada...
Sundance Film Festival 2023 | The Pod Generation
Of the Sundance titles I had the pleasure of watching this year, Sophie Barthes’ The Pod Generation was my favourite. It was the kind of...
Variety
‘Holy Spider’s’ Zar Amir Ebrahimi Leads Protest for Jailed Iranian Artists at Göteborg Fest
Rotterdam Film Festival 2023 | Munch
I started watching this movie knowing only its title (Munch) and that it’s kicking off the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Briefly I imagined a...
Sundance Film Festival 2023 | When It Melts
In her directorial debut, When It Melts, Belgian actor Veerle Baetens deftly explores the lasting impact of adolescent trauma. A devastating story and a...
Sundance Film Festival 2023 | Slow
A contemporary dancer and an asexual sign language interpreter navigate a romantic relationship in Slow, a tender drama from writer/director Marija Kavtaradze.
A talented rising...
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Director Jafar Panahi Anxiously Awaits Iranian Court Ruling on His Release From Jail
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Barbarian Director Zach Cregger’s Next Film Is A Horror Epic Titled Weapons
Rotterdam Film Festival 2023 | Endless Borders
Director Abbas Amini may not be one of the better-known Iranian filmmakers outside Iran. He has, however, been steadily building a reputation, both nationally...
Sundance Film Festival 2023 | Magazine Dreams
Depending on who acquires the distribution rights for writer/director Elijah Bynum’s Magazine Dreams, this time next year, Jonathan Majors should be a major contender if not the...
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Ryan Coogler, Questlove Announce New Projects With Onyx Collective for Hulu
Sundance Film Festival 2023 | Sometimes I Think About Dying
When screening/scaling for depression, it has been common practice to ask about suicidal ideation. How often do you think about dying? Never, Rarely/Sometimes, Always,...
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Interview with Guillaume De Seille
At the Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF), UniversalCinema Magazine was able to interview producer Guillaume De Seille. What follows, is a...
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Interview with Yanick Létourneau
UniversalCinema Magazine had the pleasure of interviewing Yanick Létourneau, a Montreal based producer and head of Peripheria Productions at the Red Sea International Film...
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Todd Haynes Drama ‘May December’ Adds Three Actors as Kids of Julianne Moore and Charles Melton (EXCLUSIVE)
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Michael B. Jordan to Star in ‘Rainbow Six’ Movie
The film will continue the story from ‘Without Remorse.’
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Interview with Alessandra Speciale
During the Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) Universal Cinema was able to sit down with Alessandra Speciale the head of Final...
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Interview with Miguel Ribeiro
During the Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF), UniversalCinema Magazine as able to interview Miguel Ribeiro, a Festival Director for Doclisboa Film...
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The Pale Blue Eye's Final Scene Took 12 To 14 Hours To Film
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Rooney Mara Almost Quit Acting After ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Remake, Says David Fincher Saved Her Career
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Jane Fonda Says Meeting Tom Brady on ‘80 for Brady’ Set Made Her Weak in the Knees: “I Was Completely Starstruck”
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – A Review
Guillermo del Toro wanted to make an adaptation of Pinocchio for a long time, but it took him years to gather the components: a...
Cairo Film Festival 2022 | An Interview
At the recent Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF), Universal Cinema editor Amir Ganjavie interviewed Amir Ramses (A.R), a film director and the Director of the...
Variety
Ruggero Deodato, Director of Banned Horror ‘Cannibal Holocaust,’ Dies at 83
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'TÁR' Is Actually a Horror Movie
Even though she may not be visible to Lydia, Krista's ghost lingers just behind her like a watchful eye.
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Charlie Cox Will Shoot ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ for 11 Months in 2023
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‘Babylon’: Meet the Real Old Hollywood Stars Who Inspired the Characters of Damien Chazelle’s Wild Epic
Triangle of Sadness – A Review
Triangle of Sadness is a satirical black comedy that opens on the world of modeling, specifically male modeling, giving insight into how brands sell...
Interview with Kim Ji-Yong, “Decision to Leave” cinematographer
Decision to Leave is the latest film from South Korean director/writer/producer Park Chan-wook. In making this film, he worked with cinematographer Kim Ji-yong. We...
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Kate Winslet Responds to Fat-Shaming Comments About Why Jack Couldn’t Get on the Door in ‘Titanic’
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Mountain Onion
From Kazakhstan and the Red Sea Festival comes director Eldar Shibanov’s Mountain Onion, a feel-good comedy that manages to feel good despite dealing with...
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Shimoni
In Shimoni, a man newly released from prison returns to his rural Kenyan village to start life anew but finds the horrors from his...
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Yusr Awards
As the 2nd Annual Red Sea International Film Festival winds to a close, on December 8th, it gave out it’s awards for the Red...
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Under The Fig Trees
I have seen boring movies and been bored. I have seen boring movies and been moved. I have seen boring movies and convinced myself...
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Hanging Gardens
In Hanging Gardens, a young Iraqi boy who sells scraps from the Baghdad dumps to survive finds a discarded American sex doll, setting off...
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Ashkal
Ashkal premiered at Cannes as part of the director’s fortnight from director/co-writer Youssef Chebbi (he shares writing credit with François-Michel Allegrini). The film's set in the Gardens...
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‘Deadpool 3’: Director Shawn Levy Promises It Will Remain Gritty and Raw in the MCU
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‘Westworld’ Isn’t Just Canceled, It’s Being Pulled from HBO Max — and There’s More
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | The Last Queen
Now playing at the Red Sea International Film Festival, The Last Queen tells the half historic half mythic tale of Queen Zaphira. Half and...
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous
Wissam Charaf, the Lebanese/French director and co-writer of Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous paints life in Lebanon as unwelcoming and hostile to those from other countries....
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Second Edition Well Under Way
The second edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) kicked off on December 1st and will run through December 10th....
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Broker
Award-winning Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda explores chosen families and social pressures in his newest feature, Broker. Inspired by the local phenomenon of “baby boxes,”...
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | “In Conversation” Series
The Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) may only be in its second year, but it’s already attracting top talent from around...
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VFX Oscar Winner Guillaume Rocheron Joins DNEG
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | The Heysel Tragedy
Film Festivals in recent years have begun to showcase TV. As someone who loves TV, I have enjoyed this shift as it gives festival...
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Vanguard Awards
At the 2nd annual Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) they are honouring triple-threat, writer-director-actor Nadine Labaki and multi-award-winning actor Ranbir Kapoor...
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Our Lady of the Chinese Shop
Our Lady of the Chinese Shop is set to the voice of a narrator (Meili Li). His voice is as smooth as the dripping...
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'RRR's S.S. Rajamouli Takes Home Best Director at New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Labaki and Kapoor to Receive Variety International Vangaurd...
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – 29 November, 2022: The Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) announced today that acclaimed Lebanese director, screenwriter, and...
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Scarlett Johansson to Lead ‘Just Cause’ Series for Amazon
Cairo Film Festival 2022 | Things Unsaid
In Things Unsaid, when a teenaged girl moves in with a married couple for a few days, she disturbs the fragility of their relationship...
ScreenCrush
‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Receives Official MPAA Rating
Some of the details are surprising...
Cairo Film Festival 2022 | Far From the Nile
A group of 12 African musicians from different countries along the Nile River come together in collaboration on a tour across America in Far...
IndieWire
Quentin Tarantino Decries the ‘Marvel-ization’ of Hollywood: MCU Actors Aren’t Movie Stars
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Honours Shah Rukh Khan
On November 20, 2022, the Red Sea International Film Festival announce that legendary Indian actor and producer Shah Rukh Khan will receive an Honorary...
Cairo Film Festival 2022 | Il Boemo
Il Boemo, from writer/director Petr Václav, is a lush costume drama that looks at the life and career of Josef Myslivecek, who left Prague for...
Cairo Film Festival 2022 | Alam
Coming of age is a difficult time for most in ideal circumstances. For Tamer (played by Mahmood Bakri)), in Alam from writer/director Firas Khoury in his debut feature, there...
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Timothée Chalamet Confirms He’s Still Playing Bob Dylan in ‘Going Electric’ Biopic
Cairo Film Festival 2022 | 19B
In Egpytian writer-director Ahmad Abdalla’s latest feature, 19B, an aging caretaker looks after a dilapidated villa but soon finds his peaceful routine threatened by...
Cairo Film Festival 2022 | The Kings of the World
The Kings of the World, from writer/director Laura Mora Ortega and her co-writer Maria Camila Arias, centers on a group of street kids who have formed a...
Red Sea Film Festival 2022 | Arab and International Spectacular Lineup
After a successful debut, the Red Sea International Film Festival (RedSeaIFF) will return this year in its second edition, taking place in Jeddah, Saudia...
Cairo Film Festival 2022 | Tori and Lokita
Tori and Lokita, from writer/director brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, is a tragic narrative that looks at the refugee and immigration process through...
IndieWire
Luca Guadagnino: Armie Hammer’s Character Would ‘Of Course’ Be Part of ‘Call Me’ Sequel
Cairo Film Festival 2022 | Opening Ceremony
The 44th Cairo International Film Festival had its opening ceremony on November 13th in the Main Hall of the Cairo Opera House. Present for...
HollywoodReporter
Kevin Conroy, Longtime Voice of Batman, Dies at 66
Cairo Film Festival 2022 | Preview
The 44th edition of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) is just a few days away, beginning November 13th and running through the 22nd....
AFI FEST Film Festival 2022 | Close
Close from writer/director Lukas Dhont and his co-writer Angelo Tijssens was a movie I wasn’t sure if I wanted to see in a cinema...
AFI FEST Film Festival 2022 | Monica
I had the pleasure of catching Monica (directed by Andrea Pallaoro who also co-wrote it with Orlando Tirado) at the AFI Fest Film Festival. This film premiered in Venice,...
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Jennifer Aniston Revealed She Has “Zero Regrets” About Her “Challenging” IVF Journey
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Rian Johnson Receives ‘Visionary’ Director at Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards
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Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire TV Series Slays
Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire hits our TV screens twenty-eight years after the movie adaptation starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. Based on...
Barbarian: A Creative Horror Fit for Halloween Viewing
Spooky season approaches its grand finale with Halloween on Monday. Whether you’re exhausted from a weekend of themed celebrations or trick-or-treating with the kids,...
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Shelley Duvall Returns to Acting with ‘The Forest Hills’ Horror Pic
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Garrett Hedlund, Mel Gibson Set For Nadine Crocker Thriller ‘Desperation Road,’ Signature Entertainment Repping Sales (EXCLUSIVE)
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The 13 Best Feminist Horror Movies of All Time, from ‘Titane’ to ‘Ready or Not’
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2022 | Dispatch #1
Being already familiar with the real incidents forming the backbone of Ali Abbasi’s feminist thriller- serial killing of prostitutes in the religious city of...
Holy Spider: A Harrowing Thriller and Timely Critique
In Mashhad, Iran’s spiritual capital, a journalist hunts down a serial killer who believes it’s his religious duty to “cleanse” the city of corrupt...
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2022 | On Festival Programming: An interview with Paolo...
At the recent Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Amir Ganjavie sat down with Paolo Bertolin, a programmer for the Venice Film Festival.
Amir Ganjavie, UniversalCinema...
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2022 | An interview with Ahmet Boyacıoğlu and Ahmet...
Golden Orange Film Festival, its challenges and its future: An interview with Ahmet Boyacıoğlu and Ahmet Gürata. At the recent Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival,...
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Laurence Fishburne Reviews ‘The Matrix Resurrections’
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2022 | War Pony
Recently part of the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, War Pony from directors Riley Keough and Gina Gammell shows with convincing intimacy the near...
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2022 | Black Night
Winner of Best Film at the just finished 59th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Black Night from director Özcan Alper plants its seeds early...
IndieWire
Wilde Agrees with Pugh: Media Focus on ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Sex Scenes Overshadowed Film
Riotsville, U.S.A – Film Essay
Riotsville, U.S.A. is a found-footage film about the American Civil Rights era. Although there is an abundance of archival materials on this subject, director...
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – A Review
The charm of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is that Marcel—a sentient, verbal, one-inch shell—is deeply human. And more than that, he is...
Indiewire
Sydney Sweeney to Star as ‘Barbarella’ in Remake She’ll Also Produce
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2022 | Antalya Dispatch #2
The 59th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival wrapped up on the 8th and with every festival ending comes the awards. There were some big...
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2022 | Broker
Full disclosure, as I’m covering Broker for the Turkish-language Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, and Broker is a Korean-language film, I watched the film...
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‘Devil In The White City’: Keanu Reeves Exits Martin Scorsese-Produced Serial Killer Series At Hulu
Festival Review: The Palm Springs Shorts
The Palm Springs Shorts festival is an online awards festival that awards short films. Out of the 82 submissions for the summer submission window,...
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2022 | Antalya Film Forum
The Antalya Film Forum was created to support the development of Turkish films and create opportunities for co-productions. The forum is co-directed by Armağan...
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2022 | Women at Antalya
It’s no secret that despite making up almost 50% percent of the population, women aren't 50% percent of filmmakers. Over the years, some festivals...
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Interview with cast members of Jafar Panahi’s No Bears
No Bears is a melancholic hymn to freedom: freedom from traditions and superstitions, from political oppression, and freedom of creativity and expression. In a...
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Interview with director Arian Vazirdaftari and stars of Bi...
Who is Roya? Who are we? Who and what defines us? In this thrilling first narrative feature by director Arian Vazirdaftari, the central themes...
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Christian Bale Says He Acted as a “Mediator” on ‘American Hustle’ Set Between David O. Russell and Amy Adams
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Interview with Giulia Amati, director of Kristos, the Last...
Kristos is an endangered species: the only child on the small island of Arki, Greece. As such, the whole village worries about him and...
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Interview with cast of World War III
Interview with cast of World War III: actor Mohsen Tanabandeh, director Houman Seyyedi, and screenplay writer Azad Jafarian
Shakib (Mohsen Tanabandeh) doesn’t have much: he...
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2022 | Antalya Dispatch #1
The 59th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival takes place October 1-8th in Antalya, Turkey. There are six categories films can be selected to appear...
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2022 | Preview
The 59th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival takes place October 1-8th in Antalya, Turkey. There are two types of film festivals, ones meant to...
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Sacheen Littlefeather, Who Delivered Brando’s Oscar Rejection Speech, Dies at 75
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New ‘Avatar’ BTS Video Reveals How a Jake's Ikran Taming Action Scene Was Filmed
Iranian film industry urges “every filmmaker in the world” to support anti-government protests
Iranian filmmakers and actors have spoken out in defiance against the Iranian government in an open letter, calling on “every filmmaker in the world”...
Variety
Constance Wu Says She Was Sexually Harassed by ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Senior Producer: ‘I Kept My Mouth Shut for a Really Long Time’
San Sebastian Film Festival 2022 | A Human Position
A Human Position by Anders Emblem is a slow narrative that looks at apathy as a sickness. Asta (played by Amalie Ibsen Jensen) is depressed. It’s clear...
San Sebastian Film Festival 2022 | Forever
Forever from filmmaker Frelle Petersen is a story about life, and it does this by setting its focus on a family in grief. The...
IndieWire
Chloé Zhao Inks First-Look TV Deal at Searchlight Television
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The Woman King’ on Track for $18 Million Box Office Launch Off of Rave Reviews
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Zurich: Asghar Farhadi Named President of Competition Jury
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Jean-Luc Godard, Enfant Terrible of Modern French Cinema, Dies at 91
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Venice Dispatch #2
The 79th edition of the Venice film festival is over. This morning, just as the sun was coming up, around the Lido’s promenade the...
Collider
'Kent State': Dermot Mulroney to Star in Historical Drama Inspired by True Events
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Valeria Is Getting Married
Director Michal Vinik’s latest film, Valeria Is Getting Married, has a short running time and basically just one location, a perfectly clean and modern...
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Wolf and Dog
Wolf and Dog from writer/director Cláudia Varejão (and co-writer Leda Cartum) visually draws its title from a scene where the two leads, Ana (played by Ana Cabral) and...
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Godard Seul le Cinéma
Jean-Luc Godard: the inimitable force that inarguably altered cinema in the 1960’s, who reclassified film as an art form rather than pure entertainment, the...
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‘Rings of Power’ Cast Slams Racist Threats Against Performers: “Middle-Earth Is Not All White”
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Venice Dispatch #1
The steamboats are always full. The stars and starlets are still shining. The queue for a Campari spritz is almost as long as the...
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Anhell69
“My film would be a class B ghost story. A metaphor for the reality we were living, and at the same time a tribute...
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Ordinary Failures
Three women, all in various stages of life, worlds intersect on a day mysterious natural/unnatural (it’s never fully revealed the cause, only some speculation)...
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Padre Pio
Italian cinema’s long history of dubbing actors goes back to when the repurposed wartime cameras used in early films made too much noise...
Venice Film Festival 2022 | The Last Queen
I was immediately taken by The Last Queen’s use of colour. You can’t help but notice it in the wardrobe, but the set design...
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Victim
A Ukrainian immigrant in the Czech Republic is unwittingly caught up in her teenaged son’s lie in this tense drama of flawed morality from...
Venice Film Festival — Music for Black Pigeons
In their first collaboration, directors Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed explore the space of jazz music by following Danish composer and jazz guitarist Jakob...
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Creative Arts Emmys 2022: See the Full List of Winners, Including 'Euphoria' and 'Squid Game'
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Fragments of Paradise
If (like I was) you’re unfamiliar with Jonas Mekas Fragments of Paradise from K.D. Davison will give you the answer. The documentary of the...
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Casa Susanna
Queer people have always been around, but for a long time their stories were untold. There is a lot of pain in much of...
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Armie Hammer Docuseries ‘House of Hammer’ Explores Cannibalism, Abuse Allegations and Family Trauma
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House of the Dragon Starts Strong with Episodes 1 & 2
Many fans were wary of a Game of Thrones spinoff after the beloved series soured in its final season, leaving audiences largely angry and...
The Man Who Never Knew Too Much – The Beehive review
Provided that there are merely a few names in the history of Iranian cinema that could be shining as outstanding filmmakers; a name would...
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Vera
Is Vera, from directors Rainer Frimmel (who was also the cinematographer) and Tizza Covi
(who also wrote the screenplay, edited, and did sound), a documentary...
Red Scorpion (1988): can a pro-apartheid flop have lessons for today?
I first heard about Red Scorpion (1988) when it was roundly mocked on the Chapo podcast. I immediately knew that I had to see this film;...
Thirteen Lives Brings a Daring Rescue to Life
You’ll be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t remember the dramatic 2018 rescue of a young Thai soccer team trapped in a flooded cave...
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'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story' Poster Showcases Daniel Radcliffe as the Titular Superstar
The Forgiven: A Classy Adaptation
It is very rare that a film adapted from a critically admired book can match the impact of the written pages, let alone surpass...
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Luca Guadagnino Hates Movies Made for Shock Value, and Cannibal Romance ‘Bones & All’ Isn’t One
Venice Film Festival 2022 | Preview
The Venice Film Festival is just around the corner (August 31-Sept-10) and with it, begins the conversation about next year’s Best Picture in earnest....
Festival Review: San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival
The San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival developed during the pandemic; it has been a bi-monthly online film festival. However, it recently had its first...
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Toronto: Brendan Fraser Set for Performance Tribute at Film Festival
Locarno Film Festival 2022 | Nightsiren
Nightsiren, a new Slovakian film from director Tereza Nvotová now playing at the Locarno Film Festival, wastes no time. Within seconds we see a...
Locarno Film Festival 2022 | Little Ones
Only in March of this year did France expand legal access to abortion for any reason from 12 weeks to 14 weeks of pregnancy....
Locarno Film Festival 2022 | Last Dance
In this heartwarming and quirky comedy drama from writer/director Delphine Lehericey, a newly widowed retiree finds unexpected joy when he takes his wife’s place...
Locarno Film Festival 2022 | Human Flowers of Flesh
The Mediterranean Sea steals the show in this slow, contemplative art-house film from filmmaker Helena Wittmann.
Ida (Angeliki Papoulia) and her crew of five men...
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Ryan Gosling In Talks For Margot Robbie’s Ocean’s Eleven Prequel
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D23 Announces 2022 Disney Legends Honorees Including Chadwick Boseman, Tracee Ellis Ross
“If Kiarostami was alive, he would appreciate Nostalgia” / Interview with director Mario Martone...
After forty years abroad, Felice Lasco (Pierfancesco Favino) comes back to the neighborhood he grew up in: rioneSanità, Naples. Here he starts to wonder...
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Robert De Niro, Barry Levinson Team for Warner Bros. Gangster Drama ‘Wise Guys’ (Exclusive)
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Angelina Jolie Revealed as Plaintiff in FBI Lawsuit Related to Brad Pitt Assault Allegations
Locarno Film Festival 2022 | Il Pataffio
Showcased during the main competition at the 2022 Locarno International Film Festival, “Il Pataffio”, directed and written by Francesco Lagi, is a playful tale...
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Anne Heche Declared Brain Dead After Car Crash
Locarno Film Festival 2022 | Semret
Semret is a narrative feature, but as I was watching, there were distinct filmic elements that felt documentary, especially the portraiture montage near the end...
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Box Office: ‘Bullet Train’ Books $30.1M Opening
Locarno Film Festival 2022 | A Perfect Day for Caribou
An estranged father and son reconnect over the course of a single strange day in A Perfect Day for Caribou, a solid feature debut...
Locarno Film Festival 2022 | Fledglings
Fledglings (Pisklaki) is the first feature documentary from Polish filmmaker Lidia Duda, and it follows a trio of first graders as they enter a...
Locarno Film Festival 2022 | Matter Out of Place
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter often explores humankind’s devastating impact on our planet. In Earth (2019), he looked at construction; in Homo Sapiens (2016),...
Bullet Train – A Review
A job predicated on a simple snatch and grab for Lady Bug (played by Brad Pitt) becomes a wild ride from Tokyo through Kyoto as...
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Quentin Tarantino Gives Rare Review: ‘I F*cking Love ‘Top Gun: Maverick”
Anything’s Possible – A Review
Tony award-winning Broadway star and fashion icon Billy Porter makes his directorial debut with Anything’s Possible, a new coming of age tale now available...
Don’t Make Me Go – A Review
I got goosebumps watching the trailer for Don’t Make Me Go, a new film from Hannah Marks now available on Amazon Prime. But I’m...
Fantasia Film Festival 2022 – Monsters to Love and Hate
Emerging from two years of banishment to virtual space - one full and one partial- Fantasia Film Festival was once again in full flight...
Baz Lurhmann: Showman or Snow-man? – A Review of Elvis
There are some filmmakers that leave an indelible mark on you. The ones who the second you sit down, you instantly know you are...
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Mo Ostin, Legendary Warner Bros. Records Chief, Dies at 95
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande — A Review
Celebrated actor Emma Thompson and up-and-comer Daryl McCormack shine in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, a film about a repressed middle-aged woman who...
Persuasion: A Lacklustre Adaptation
Dakota Johnson stars in this light rom-com adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, Persuasion. Published in 1817, Persuasion was the last novel Austen completed prior to...
Prizefighter – A Review
The history of boxing is long. The history of boxing movies is also long. Prizefighter, a new mostly bare knuckle film now available on...
The Cursed – A Review
The Cursed, a new gothic horror film now available on Amazon Prime, falls into the long tradition of having English speaking actors play characters...
Lightyear – A Review
Lightyear is Pixar’s latest entry into the universe of Toy Story. When it was announced, many, myself included, wondered why Pixar was tapping that...
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Venice Festival Takes Political Stand, Featuring 4 Iranian Films in Official Selection
The Offer is Worth Considering
Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972) is one of the most talked about, discussed and written about films in the history of cinema. Books...
Everything Everywhere All at Once – A Review
From the global pandemic to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and countless other shocking global events in between and since, it has become a popular...
The Gray Man – A Review
Since the role of Ethan Hunt in the Mission Impossible franchise is not likely to be given up by Tom Cruise anytime soon, Ryan...
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Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour Goes Virtual Due to BA.5 COVID Variant
A Very British Scandal — Review
In this three-part miniseries, writer and creator Sarah Phelps and director Anne Sewitsky dramatize the turbulent marriage and infamous divorce of the Duke and...
The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure — A Review
The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure is a South Korean swashbuckling period film written by Chun Sung-il and directed by Kim Jeong-hoon. While technically...
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Iran Says Acclaimed Filmmaker Jafar Panahi to Serve Out Six-Year Sentence
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Peter Dinklage Joins The Hunger Games Prequel
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2022 | Borders of Love
In his feature debut, Borders of Love, director Tomasz Wiński explores the possibilities and consequences of one couple’s decision to try an open relationship,...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2022 | Silence 6-9
Two outsiders fall in love in a half-abandoned town that sits somewhere between dream and reality in Silence 6-9, the directorial debut from actor...
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Strand Releasing Buys Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight Title ‘Will-O’-The-Wisp’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2022 | A Room of My Own
For A Room of My Own, Georgian director and writer Ioseb 'Soso' Bliadze re-teamed with one of his leads from Otar's Death, Taki Mumladze, who stars as Tina. She...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2022 | Tinnitus
Is it safe to call Tinnitus a modern day Suspiria except for with synchronised diving instead of ballet? I hope that’s okay to say...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2022 | In Broad Daylight
From the Karlovy Vary Festival comes In Broad Daylight, a new horrorish movie written and directed by Quebec filmmaker Emmanuel Tardif. It shows a...
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Iran Arrests Golden Bear Winning Director Mohammad Rasoulof in ‘Brutal’ Raid Over Social Media Posts
Iran Arrests Golden Bear Winning Director Mohammad Rasoulof
On Friday, July 8th Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Aleahmad, respected and dedicated Iranian filmmakers, were arrested.
Kaveh Farnam and Farzad Pak, two of Rasoulof’s Iranian...
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All the Details on ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2022 | Ramona
Andrea Bagney’s directorial debut Ramona is a love letter to rom-coms and other classic romance films. You get the sense from the very beginning. The music,...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2022 | Fools
Writer/director Tomasz Wasilewski, and Berlinale Silver Bear winner for Best Script for his 2016 entry United States of Love, latest film is Fools. United States of Love looked at relationships...
Socialism and the Left Should Be Reinvented, Interview with Marco Bellocchio
Marco Bellocchio is regarded as a political Italian filmmaker, a leftist filmmaker from the generation of Italian masters such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Francesco...
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James Cameron Might Not Direct Avatar 4 And 5 Himself – Exclusive
Festival: Palm Springs Shorts
Description: Palm Springs Shorts is a bi-monthly online awards event. The festival will welcome any independent project from all genres. The Festival is looking...
Festival Review: The Toronto Independent Film Festival of Cift
The Toronto Independent Film Festival of Cift is an annual festival featuring short and feature films in contemporary cinema, with the most recent season...
Variety
Sigourney Weaver Plays a Teenager in ‘Avatar 2’: ‘Thrilled to Be Given That Challenge’
Festival Review: The Vancouver Independent Film Festival
The Vancouver Independent Film Festival is a seasonal and yearly event, with the most recent season taking place between March to June 2022. Winners...
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Reports: Judge in Italy Extends Hotel Detention for Paul Haggis
Swarms of Drifting Shadows
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Swarms of Drifting Shadows
Presented by Phoenix Culture Centre of Toronto
Director: Amir Ganjavie
Writers: Arash Azizi, Amir Ganjavie, Mehdi Shirzad
Year of Production:...
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Maureen Arthur, Actress in ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,’ Dies at 88
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Justin Lin to Direct ‘One Punch Man’ Movie
You’ve seen Her Face but May Not Know Her Name: An Interview with British...
Actresses in general have had a much shorter time span of being offered lead roles than their male counterparts. Tom Cruise could still be...
“I wanted to write an organic story” — Manuela Martelli on her 1976
The year 1976 is considered one of the bloodiest years of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile. 1976 is also the title of Manuela Martelli's...
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More ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’: Sony to Release Extended Cut In Theaters
Honeymoon with my Mother
When I was eight years old, my father married an attractive woman 19 years younger than him. Soon after, we all flew to Spain...
A Real G Ride – Top Gun: Maverick Review
Reboots, sequels, and legacy films are constantly being made, and made, and made. IP is king, and it's hard to stand out in an...
Slo Pitch (Season 2) – A review
It’s no secret my love of sports TV/Films. The reason I love them is that the majority of them focus on team sports, and...
The Worst Person in the World – A Review
The movie opens to an elegant woman, alone on a balcony while a bustling party takes place inside the apartment. The movie cuts to...
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‘Joker’ Sequel Moving Forward: Working Title Revealed, Joaquin Phoenix Seen Reading Script
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Julia Garner Offered Madonna Role in Universal Biopic (EXCLUSIVE)
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Japanese Director Naomi Kawase Accused of Violence Towards Staff
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The Cast of ‘Top Gun,’ Then and Now
Festival Review: Hollywood International Golden Age Festival
The Mar to Apr 2022 edition of the Hollywood International Golden Age Festival is a monthly and annual international film festival based out of...
Vahid Vakilifar, A Young Iranian Independent Filmmaker Sailing Against the Tide
I first came to know the young Iranian independent film maker Vahid Vakilifar at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival in 2009 where his feature...
Festival de Cannes 2022 | Politics and Kisses at Cannes 2022 Closing Ceremony
The festival is over. Since there were no premieres scheduled on Saturday, most of the press had already left. However, the Croisette didn’t feel empty at...
Festival de Cannes 2022 | Belgian directors and two heartbreaking stories about childhood
Two films about childhood screened as part of the competition at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Both of them were masterpieces by Belgian...
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The Next ‘Star Wars’ Movies Will Be Set After the Sequels
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Kevin Spacey Charged With Sexual Assault in U.K.
Festival de Cannes 2022 | Cannes Dispatch #2
Only three days to go until the jury’s verdict and still too many movies to watch. Yesterday evening some heavy rain refreshed the Croisette....
Festival de Cannes 2022 | “Imagine”, fantasy on the edge of reality
"Imagine", directed by Ali Behrad, was one of the 7 feature films screened during Cannes Film Festival’s Critics' Week.
An unusual scene opens the film....
Festival de Cannes 2022 | Critics’ Week ended with a win for ‘La Jauria’
Cannes' Critics' Week, which is dedicated to first and second feature films, awarded Andrés Ramirez Pulido's “La Jauria" the Grand Prize. This Colombian film...
Festival de Cannes 2022 | Cannes Dispatch #1
As the Cannes film festival enters its second week, the dark circles around the festival’s attendant eyes are becoming more visible and their excitement...
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Jan Gassmann’s ‘99 Moons’ Brings Soul and Body to Cannes
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Léa Seydoux, Audrey Diwan Team Up on ‘Emmanuelle,’ Adaptation of Erotic Novel
Festival Review: Palm Springs Movie Awards
The Dec 2021 to Feb 2022 edition of the Palm Springs Movie Awards is a seasonal international film festival based out of Palm Springs,...
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Neon Takes Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway Thriller ‘Mothers’ Instinct’
Crush – A Review
Crush from writers Kirsten King and Casey Rackham, and director Sammi Cohen is a sweet colour-coated queer coming-of-age film. Most teen films with queer...
Roar – A Review
Anthology series played a huge role in early television. While The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presentsare probably the most well-known today, there were...
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Minnie Driver Was Told She Was ‘Not Sexy’ Enough to Star in ‘Good Will Hunting’: It Was ‘Devastating’
All the Old Knives — Review
Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton star in All the Old Knives, a slow-burn spy thriller directed by Janus Metz and based on the novel...
Dancing on Glass (Las Niñas de Cristal) — Review
Spanish director Jota Linares offers his take on the ballet thriller genre with Dancing on Glass (Las Niñas de Cristal), starring María Pedraza (Money Heist,...
IndieWire
‘Babylon’ Debuts First Footage: Brad Pitt Is Unrecognizable with Massive Prosthetic Nose in Silent Film Era
Nika, the Crimean prodigy who couldn’t juggle
Nika
Dir. Vasilisa Kuzmina
Russia
Premiered in SXSW Film Festival 2022
Early on in Nika, we see the title character Nika Turbina walk in a narrow alley towards...
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‘Venom 3’ Is Headed to Theaters
Yara. The Red Majesty of Cuban Cinema
A long queue, a very, very long queue, under a beautiful blue vintage sign: YARA. As I walked, I was hypnotized by a huge red modernist...
Variety
Alec Baldwin Claims ‘Rust’ Investigation ‘Exonerates’ Him
All Hail – A Review
This movie made me question my belief in God. It made me wonder if life was truly meaningless, if everything just happens at random....
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‘Spider-Verse’ Sequel Delayed to 2023
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Sophia Bush, Jamie Chung Join Bryan Greenberg’s ‘Junction’ Opioid Drama (Exclusive)
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Steven Soderbergh’s Next Indie Film ‘Experiment’: Blockchain Financing with Roman Coppola — Exclusive
Four TV Series Worth Checking Out – Dropout, Landscapers, Vigil, Slow Horses
There is a belief among media watchers today that TV shows are matching, and in many cases surpassing, the best that mainstream cinema can...
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Richard Linklater Says He Missed the Window to Make Another ‘Before’ Movie
Better Nate Than Ever – A Review
Better Nate Than Ever comes from High School Musical: The Musical: The Series creator Tim Federle based on his novel of the same name. Even if...
A Look Back on Brick
Rian Johnson has a 10-episode order for a mystery series (Poker Face) at Peacock. It was recently announced his long-time collaborator Joseph Gordon-Levitt would have a...
Topline – A Review
I was all in on Romeo Candido’s Topline from the first IPF trailer. In real life, the way to my heart is through chocolate...
Revenge of the Black Best Friend – A review
Tropes permeate the world of entertainment. While many tropes are just repeated motifs, similar to a cliché, and banal some tropes are harmful. Tropes came...
After Love — Like Walking on a Trembling Cliff
Love is known to overwhelm us with joy or sorrow but it can also lead to something deeper: to a conversion of faith. Faith...
Flee: A Perilous Journey and a Timely Tale
Flee is a gripping animated feature documentary that recounts one man’s harrowing ordeal as a child fleeing Afghanistan and allows him to finally come...
Sorrentino Brings His Past to Life in The Hand of God
The Hand of God is writer/director Paolo Sorrentino’s most personal film to date as it recounts much of his own coming-of-age experience.
Filippo Scotti stars...
Our Flag Means Death – A Review
A light historical pirate romp. The principal character in Our Flag Means Death from creator
David Jenkins is Stede Bonnet, the “The Gentleman Pirate” (played...
Homeschooled – A Review
Homeschooled is one of CBC Gem’s March additions to their web-series lineup. The YA dramedy series comes from co-creators Gwenlyn Cumyn and Karen Knox, inspired by Cumyn’s experiences...
Hello (Again) – A Review
There have been many entries in the “do-over” genre of storytelling. You have the “A Christmas Carol” version where someone on a dark path...
Black Crab – A Review
You’ve heard of Disney on Ice? Well this is Apocalypse Now on Ice! That’s how I imagine Black Crab, a Swedish action thriller now...
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Steven Soderbergh’s Next Indie Film ‘Experiment’: Blockchain Financing with Roman Coppola — Exclusive
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'The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical' Wins Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album
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Kathryn Bigelow to Direct ‘Aurora’ for Netflix, Based on David Koepp’s Upcoming Thriller Novel
Much Ado About Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero
In terms of both the critical and commercial success of his films, home and abroad, Asghar Farhadi is Iran’s most successful film maker. He...
Kimi – A Review
Is it easier to have agoraphobia if you live in the world’s largest, most beautiful apartment? Maybe. As I watched this film in my...
The Adam Project – A Review
Outside of Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds has become the go-to guy to lead in non-IP action films of late. His most recent entry is The Adam Project from...
Windfall – A Review
I was taken into the world of Windfall, from director Charlie McDowell with a screenplay from Justin Lader and Andrew Kevin Walker (story from both screenwriters and Charlie McDowell and Jason Segel),...
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Critic’s Notebook: The 94th Academy Awards Were Already Bad, but Then They Got Worse
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Odessa Young on the Frequent Nudity in Her New Film ‘Mothering Sunday’
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Adrien Brody Says Jack Nicholson Tried to Organize 2003 Oscars Boycott Over Iraq War
Cannes 2022 and The Story of An Iranian Serial Killer
Ali Abbasi's Holy Spider is among the most awaited film competing for the Palme d’Or in 2022. In this film, the Swedish-Iranian director narrates a...
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‘True Detective’ Is Officially Coming Back Without Creator Nic Pizzolatto But With Barry Jenkins
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Morphing Into ‘Morbius’: How Jared Leto Sank His Teeth Into Marvel’s Vampire Anti-Hero
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‘Dune 2’: ‘Elvis’ Star Austin Butler in Talks for Key Villain Role
Berlinale 2022 | Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
Have you ever wondered why in the last scene of Alien (1979) by Ridley Scott, totally out of the blue, the powerful Warrant Officer Ripley...
ScreenCrush
DC’S ’BLACK ADAM’ GETS DELAYED
Lullabies and Orthodontics in Tehran
Most feature film directors started by making short films, from Spielberg to Scorsese, from Kubrick to Kiarostami. Short films in many cases serve as...
Love and Hate in the Time of Snow
In 2014 Amir Hossein Asgari wrote and directed his feature film debut, Borderless, which won awards from a number of international film festivals. Eight...
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The Search for Madonna: Inside the Auditions for the Material Girl’s Biopic
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Pamela Anderson Reveals a Documentary About Her Life Is Coming to Netflix
Telling Black History – A Review of The Porter
The history we are told is a product of who is doing the telling. Often the narratives are formed by the victors or colonizers....
No Exit – A Review
Addiction is at the core of the film No Exit from director Damien Power and screenwriters Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari. The whole narrative can be viewed through the...
Berlinale 2022 | Sonne
That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh...
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Aaron Pierre to Star Alongside Mahershala Ali in Marvel’s ‘Blade’
Berlinale 2022 | O Trio em mi Bemol
Two ex-lovers discuss music, love and tenderness in director Rita Azevedo Gomes’ innovative feature adapted from the play by Éric Rohmer.
“Le Trio en mi...
Berlinale 2022 | A Flower in the Mouth
An experimental film from Éric Baudelaire that combines documentary and fiction, A Flower in the Mouth is a melancholic and philosophical exploration of our...
Berlinale 2022 | A Little Love Package
Gastón Solnicki’s latest feature, A Little Love Package, is an experimental tribute to Vienna starring Carmen Chaplin and Angeliki Papoulia.
The film takes place in...
Berlinale 2022 | Striking Land
Portuguese filmmaker Raul Domingues creates an intimate connection with nature and small-scale farming in his new feature documentary, Terra Que Marca (Striking Land).
Domingues explores...
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Jamie Lee Curtis Shoots Her Last Scene as Laurie Strode For ‘Halloween Ends
The Tragedy of Macbeth – A review
Black & white filming was used in many 2021 films. Gone are the days of singular notable entries: The Artist (2011), Frances Ha (2012),...
Ballad of a White Cow – A Review
Execution has long been a subject favoured by Iranian filmmakers, from The Night of the Execution (1970) by Davoud Mollapour to Mohammad Rasoulof’s Beriln...
The Worst Person in the World – A Review
The Worst Person in the World is nominated for two Oscars at the 94th Academy Awards, for Best International Feature Film and Original Screenplay...
Variety
Rosy McEwen Set for Lead Role in Georgia Oakley Feature ‘Blue Jean’ (EXCLUSIVE)
An interview with Craig Peyton about Code Red: My Southwest Overflight
'Code Red: My Southwest Overflight’ is an aerial photography film directed by Craig Peyton showcased at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival of Cift...
Berlinale 2022 | Until Tomorrow
Until Tomorrow (Ta Farda) from writer/director Ali Asgari and his co-writer Alireza Khatami tells the story of a single mother desperate to hide her...
Berlinale 2022 | The City and the City
The City and the City, directed by Christos Passalis and Syllas Tzoumerkas tells the tale of Thessaloniki across several points in time in the...
IndieWire
Robert Pattinson Is in ‘Almost Every Scene’ of ‘The Batman,’ Stayed ‘Constantly in That World’ Even Off Set
Berlinale 2022 | Una Femmina
Una Femmina (The Code of Silence) is a look at women (and men) affected by life in Calabria under the control of the 'ndrangheta...
Berlinale 2022 | Mis Dos Voces
With Mis Dos Voces. Linda Rodriguez has given us a meditation on identity, language and arrival that will forever change how newcomers are perceived....
Berlinale 2022 | Four Nights
Four Nights from director Deepak Rauniyar and his co-screenwriter and female lead Asha Magrati is a personal film. It comes from their personal story and the struggles, sacrifices,...
Cannes 2022’s special guest: David Bowie
Moonage Daydream, the new Brett Morgan movie about the rock legend David Bowie, will premier at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. The film is...
Berlinale 2022 | Juunt Pastaza Entsari
The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (also known as ‘Berlinale’) is one of the largest publicly attended festivals in the world, held annually since...
Berlinale 2022 | Geographies of Solitude
Zoe Lucas has her own desert island. She shares it with hundreds of wild horses. For some, this might sound like a dream come...
Rotterdam Film Festival 2022 | Phantom Project
Phantom Project (or Ghost Project depending on the translation) by writer/director Roberto Doveris is an example of modern queer cinema. Early on, you get...
Rotterdam Film Festival 2022 | The Child
A wealthy family slowly unravels as long-hidden secrets and desires are brought to light in The Child, a collaborative feature film from director duo...
Berlinale 2022 | Rookies
The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (also known as ‘Berlinale’) is one of the “Big Three” film festivals (the other two are Venice Film...
Berlinale 2022 | Grand Jeté
I like to approach movies with as much of a blank slate as possible. This way, I’m not viewing something having already placed expectations...
Berlinale 2022 | Super Natural
To say that Jorge Jácome’s latest film, Super Natural is experimental would be an insult to understatements. There is no plot. There aren’t really...
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‘Marry Me’ Review: Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson Bring Charm to a Rom-Com That’s Mildly Preposterous and Knows It
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Cate Blanchett to Produce, Star in Australian Drama ‘The New Boy’
Rotterdam Film Festival 2022 | Kim Min-young of the Report Card
Three friends drift apart after high school and struggle to reconnect in this South Korean coming-of-age drama from directors Lee Jae-eun and Lim Jisun....
Rotterdam Film Festival 2022 | Lucie Loses Her Horse
Claude Schmitz explores the existential uncertainty theatre workers have been living in since Covid-19 in Lucie Lose Her Horse. Theatre work always is precarious....
Rotterdam Film Festival 2022 | Give Me Pity!
Time to take a blast from the past. Witness this Saturday night one-woman spectacular variety show, featuring the one and only Sissy St. Claire! ...
7 years art from Berlin “BrückenKunst” 2019 – A Review
Art is a form of expression that comes from a person’s experience and imagination and turns it into a visual medium (E.g., painting), or...
Shadows of the World – A Review
In the post-apocalyptic world, planet earth has succumbed to the natural disasters due to climate change. In this Greek short film, ‘Shadows of the...
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Asghar Farhadi’s Films Look Beyond Good Guys and Bad Guys
Sundance Film Festival 2022 | TikTok, Boom
Before we get too far, you may be forgiven for any confusion surrounding this film’s title, which unfortunately coincides with that of another recent...
Rotterdam Film Festival 2022 | A Human Position
In Norwegian writer-director Anders Emblem’s second feature film, A Human Position, a young journalist in a melancholic state finds new energy and meaning when...
Rotterdam Film Festival 2022 | Kinorama – Beyond the Walls of the Real
This is a film documentary in 3D stereoscopic format and is recommended to watch it in this form if possible. Created by Portuguese director...
Rotterdam Film Festival 2022 | Pénélope, My Love
Claire Doyon is a French filmmaker and mother to her beautiful daughter Pénélope. For 18 years, Claire accumulated over a hundred hours of footage...
Rotterdam Film Festival 2022 | Yamabuki
Yamabuki is a golden mountain flower in Japan that flowers around the same time as the better known internationally Sakura. It grows wild on...
Rotterdam Film Festival 2022 | The Island
Get ready to ride the waves of interpretation of Robinson Crusoe in this intricate musical feature film ‘The Island’ by Romanian filmmaker Anca Damian....
Rotterdam Film Festival 2022 | EAMI
After a bevy of credits espousing all the production partners that made EAMI possible, the film opens with a prologue of sorts. Starting in black, the...
Rotterdam Film Festival 2022 | The Dream and the Radio
‘Le Rêve Et La Radio’ (English Title: The Dream and the Radio) stars the two directors Renaud Després-Larose and Ana Tapia Rousiouk as well...
Paradise Fifty Five – A Review
Manuel (Hugo Villalvazo) is on a night out with his drinking buddy Santiago (Eduardo Tolledo). Manuel is a young slim guy with a thick...
An interview with Moris Zingman of I’ll See You There
'I’ll See You There’ is a dramatic student short film, directed by Moris Zingman. It is about an impending doomsday of the world featuring...
Sundance Film Festival 2022 | Midwives
In Snow Hnin El Hlaing’s feature documentary debut, two midwives, one Buddhist and one Muslim, defy religious and ethnic divisions to work together in...
Sundance Film Festival 2022 | Every Day in Kaimukī
In the modestly charming Every Day in Kaimukī, a young Hawaiian man is determined to find meaning and his place in life beyond the...
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Sundance Film Festival 2022 | Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power from filmmaker Nina Menkes uses clips from more than 175 films, many Hollywood hits or cult classics, in this film based on...
Sundance Film Festival 2022 | Descendant
The Clotilda, a schooner sailing vessel, is a long-standing secret of the last known United States slave ship that illegally brought around 110-160 slaves...
Sundance Film Festival 2022 | The Cathedral
Ricky D’Ambrose is known for his unique filmmaking style of evoking images from a childhood memory. His direction led to creating his feature film...
Sundance Film Festival 2022 | Riotsville, USA
There are all kinds of towns with unique or unusual names, be it Nameless, Tennessee, or Normal, Illinois. So, you might be wondering if...
Sundance Film Festival 2022 | Sirens
When I sat down to watch Sirens, I anticipated the prototypical band documentary, with the drama of how do they create, stay together, and...
Sundance Film Festival 2022 | Tantura
“In 1947, the United Nations voted to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states.” Since the separation, this caused a divide between the...
Sundance Film Festival 2022 | Nothing Compares
Northern Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor’s life and career has a new documentary directed by Irish director Kathryn Ferguson called ‘Nothing Compares’, a reference of...
Sundance Film Festival 2022 | All That Breathes
‘All That Breathes’ is Shaunak Sen’s second Indian feature film documentary making it’s world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, which runs between...
Sundance Film Festival 2022 | The Mission
A group of young missionaries (also known as Mormon) from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, based out of Salt Late City,...
Sundown – A Review
There are few signs that 2020’s New Order and Sundown come from the same writer/director, but they are there if you look for them....
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Asghar Farhadi and the making of A Hero
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The central theme of Asghar Farhadi’s latest “A Hero” is the question of how to be a hero in the contemporary world, and in...
Variety
Evan Rachel Wood Documentary ‘Phoenix Rising,’ Chronicling Marilyn Manson Abuse Allegations, Added to Sundance Lineup: ‘It’s Very Personal’
Cyrano Reimagined – A Review of Cyrano
Instead of remembering 2021 as the 2nd year of the pandemic, I’m going to remember it as the year of the movie musical. In...
An Affecting Tribute: Review of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
By turns whimsical and tragic, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain tells the story of the eccentric Victorian artist whose delightful drawings of wide-eyed...
Jane Campion’s Grand Return: The Power of the Dog
After a twelve-year hiatus, Jane Campion makes her victorious return to filmmaking with the darkly captivating The Power of the Dog, a revisionist western...
Red Sea Film Festival 2021 | The Exam
The stakes in The Exam, from writer/director Shawkat Amin Korki and co-writer Mohamedreza Gohari, are established early. If Rojin (played by Vania Salar) doesn’t pass her exams and...
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Joel Coen Would Not Have Made ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ With Brother Ethan
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Announcing the Jury Members of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival
C’mon C’mon – A Way of Understanding Us
The first thing that will come into the mind of most people watching C’Mon C’Mon will probably be the desires and hopes of the...
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? – A Review
If you’re looking for narrative economy, Aleksandre Koberidze is not the filmmaker for you. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? is Koberidze’s...
Red Sea Film Festival 2021 | An Interview with Alaa Karkouti and Maher Diab...
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Review: The Matrix Resurrections Is a Transcendent Journey of Renewal and Hope
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A Hero review – Asghar Farhadi’s realist tale is just too messy and unsatisfactory
IndieWire
New Year’s Box Office: 2022 Starts Down Like 2021, Despite ‘Spider-Man’
Being the Ricardos – A Review
Aaron Sorkin gets in his own way with a project that has a decent base. I have to wonder if Sorkin has a persecution...
Red Sea Film Festival 2021 | The Lost Daughter
In the early 2000s, there was a popular trend to start TV pilots in the climax and then go back in time, only catching...
Don’t Look Up – A Review
Adam McKay built his initial career on hard/sketch comedy as head writer on SNL and writer/director of films like the Anchorman series. Then he switched...
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Jean-Marc Vallée, director of Dallas Buyers Club, Wild and Big Little Lies, dies aged 58
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Adam McKay on the Ending(s) of ‘Don’t Look Up’: DiCaprio’s Last-Minute Line, Streep’s Improv and Brontarocs
Night, Mother – A Review
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the ways of our world and our lifestyles since the start of 2020. It has brought on a lot...
Spider-Man: No Way Home – A Review
It’s become a popular question to ask directors if they are/want to direct a superhero movie. This is in no small part due to...
A Magical Journey with the Family Madrigal – A Review of Encanto
The year has been great for animated films, from stellar shorts (if you’re a Disney+ subscriber and don’t sleep on their shorts collection) to...
Code Red: My Southwest Overflight – A Review
‘Code Red: My Southwest Overflight’ is an aerial photography film directed by Craig Peyton showcased at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival of Cift...
The Hand of God – A Review
Paolo Sorrentino is an Italian director and screenwriter of film and television. Sorrentino has made a career, from his first collaboration as a co-writer...
Marley, Someone – A Review
Diversity and representation are becoming important topics and prevalent in the film industry, especially with the BIPOC community. In this feature film directional debut...
Brexit Through the Non-Political Glass – A Review
Nina Kojima is a well-respected former Slovenia journalist from Partisan Media in her 24-year career, and has released her debut documentary ‘Brexit Through the...
tick, tick… BOOM! – A Review
Music Theatre was hard hit in 2020 by the pandemic (cue “Broadway” by Goo Goo Dolls on endless repeat). I was working at a...
Jockey – A Review
Sports movies have a certain rhythm to them. They’re can proceed like on a race track where the outcomes are limited, but even so,...
The Dark Side of Childhood: Review of Playground (Un Monde)
The school playground becomes a treacherous war zone in director Laura Wandel’s feature debut, Playground (Un Monde).
Seven-year-old Nora (Maya Vanderbeque) reveres her older brother...
An interview with Gary Beeber on making Emily’s Do
‘Emily’s Do’ is a documentary-style film on Emily Sewell Smith, who is someone who uses her hair, makeup, and clothing as her mediums to...
An interview with Alan Wang of Frozen Brothers
‘Frozen Brothers’ is a mockumentary-style feature film shot entirely with mobile phones and mobile technology by director Alan Wang. The film is about a...
An interview with Arianna Veronesi about Glaistig
‘Glaistig’ is short film about Anna’s own trauma and artistic journey to self reclamation of her own being after feeling a sense of struggle...
I’ll See You There – A Review
The end of the world. There lies a couple of bottles of pills with the label of that description. ‘I’ll See You There’ is...
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Cate Blanchett to Receive Lifetime Cesar Award From French Film Academy
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Ben Schwartz Joins Nicolas Cage, Nicholas Hoult in Universal’s ‘Renfield’
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West Side still the Best Side – West Side Story Review
Studios love to take existing properties and make new adaptations/remakes/chapters. IP is king, and it makes sense as creative endeavors are always a gamble,...
Red Sea Film Festival 2021 | Saloum
In his acceptance speech for Parasite, director Bong Joon Ho made a statement about how “once you overcome that 1-inch tall barrier of subtitles,...
Red Sea Film Festival 2021 | Winners Announced
The Red Sea International Film Festival has partnered with VOX Cinemas, MBC GROUP and Saudia Airlines, has made its first inaugural Film Festival debut...
Red Sea Film Festival 2021 | Dispatch #3
This is day of seven at the Red Sea Festival. I had a chance to visit the historical city of Jeddah yesterday. The festival...
Red Sea Film Festival 2021 | Brighton 4th
Retired Georgian wrestler named Kakhi (Levan Tedaishvili) travels to Brighton, New York to help support his troubled son. The film ‘Brighton 4th’, directed by...
Red Sea Film Festival 2021 | Dispatch #2
We are in the fourth day of the festival. One noticeable point about the Red Sea Festival is that most of the important events...
Variety
‘Harold and Maude’ at 50: An Oral History of How a ‘Harrowing’ Flop Became a Beloved Cult Classic
Red Sea Film Festival 2021 | Dispatch #1
The Red Sea International Film Festival has partnered with VOX Cinemas, MBC GROUP and Saudi Airlines, making its first inaugural Film Festival opening in...
Red Sea Film Festival 2021 | A Chiara
Raphael, the Renaissance artist, was famous because he painted people as they were with no embellishment. At least this is what one character in A...
The Hollywood Reporter
‘The Last Duel’ and ‘House of Gucci’ Composer Harry Gregson-Williams on Scoring Ridley Scott’s Different Epics
Red Sea Film Festival 2021
The Red Sea International Film Festival has partnered with with VOX Cinemas, MBC GROUP and Saudia Airlines, making its first inaugural Film Festival opening...
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‘Dune,’ ‘The Power of the Dog,’ and ‘The Last Duel’ Find Strength in Home Audiences
IDFA 2021 | Children of the Mist
A young teenage girl finds herself caught up in a clash between cultural traditions and modern values in director Diem Ha Le’s first feature...
IDFA 2021 | Atlantide
In Atlantide, Italian visual artist and filmmaker Yuri Ancarani presents Venice like we’ve never seen it before, through the eyes of local teen boys...
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Former NJ Film Festival Winner "Into Schrodinger's Box" To Stream With Fandor
Classic British Horror is back in Last Night in Soho
The first time I went to London was as a child with my mother in the Sixties. I still have vivid memories of that...
Benedetta – Another Forbidden Apple
Paul Verhoeven is not off cinematic radars. Robocop, Basic Instinct and Elle are a few of his auteur signatures which have taken viewers to...
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Chris Pratt Won’t Do Italian Accent In ‘Super Mario Bros.’
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Gotham Awards Predictions: Will Netflix Rule Both Sides of Film and TV With ‘The Lost Daughter’ and ‘Squid Game’?
IDFA 2021 | Now Is the Past – My Father, Java & the Phantom...
Wrestling with the past is something filmmakers often undertake. In Now is the Past - My Father, Java & the Phantom Films, 2nd generation...
IDFA 2021 | How the Room Felt
Ketevan Kapanadze’s documentary How the Room Felt had its world premiere at IDFA in the international competition section. It centers on a group of...
Why I’m Recluse – A Review
Get ready to live in the present. That’s the main premise of this 23-minute short film, ‘Why I’m Recluse (Esp: Causa Ermitaña)’ from Chilean...
Glaistig – A Review
“I’m a lavishly paid actress” & “There’s nothing wrong with this longing” are a couple of quotes said by the main character Anna, who...
IDFA 2021 | Random Patrol
Yohan Guignard studied film at the Sorbonne. The Sorbonne is in Paris, somewhere between the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame cathedral. It must have...
IDFA 2021 | A Marble Travelogue
At a certain point, late in the film, A Marble Travelogue, a Greek man explains to a Chinese woman who Odysseus was. The story...
IDFA 2021 | Taamaden
‘Taamaden’ follows a young West African man named Bakaray from Mali who is making an attempt to transition as an immigrant to Spain while...
IDFA 2021 | The History of the Civil War
Dziga Vertov’s film The History of the Civil War has only been screened once before, a century ago in 1921. Vertov, who is now...
IDFA 2021 | Les Enfants Terribles
When, over the summer of 2021, there was a worldwide outcry against the possibility that women would no longer be allowed to attend school...
IDFA 2021 | Set!
Set! from director Scott Gawlik had its Dutch premiere in the Best of Fest category at IDFA. It’s available now on Discovery+.
Growing up, I...
IDFA 2021 | The End of Wonderland
The End of Wonderland by Canadian filmmaker Laurence Turcotte-Fraser had its world premiere at the IDFA in the Luminous category. It follows the life...
White on White – A Review
Chilean director Théo Court’s film, White on White (Espanol: Blanco en Blanco), is making its U.S. theatrical release on December 10 in New York...
IDFA 2021 | Eat Your Catfish
The 2021 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) has kicked off in November 17. One of the standouts for this year is ‘Eat Your...
IDFA 2021 | Atlantide
In this directional film debut by Yuri Ancarani, ‘Atlantide’ blurs the lines between fictional film and a documentary, making its debut at the 2021...
IDFA 2021 | Intensive Life Unit
How do we talk about the end of life? How does one live a quality life with an illness? Palliative care doctors and patients...
IDFA 2021 | Museum of the Revolution
Director Srđan Keča’s documentary, Museum of the Revolution, is a thoughtful and compassionate glimpse into the effects of society’s rising inequality and the community...
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car: One of the Best Indie Films of 2021
There are so many themes and mysteries in Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s three-hour epic, Drive my Car, that you’ll be thinking about it for days after...
IDFA 2021 | The Last Chapter Review
Gianluca Matarrese’s The Last Chapter (La Dernière Séance) is an intimate portrait of the filmmaker’s older French lover, Bernard, as he reflects on life,...
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Does ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Box Office Debut Signal a Revival of a Fading Franchise?
Emily’s Do – A Review
A true artist is someone who finds their own form of self-expression, and ‘Emily’s Do’, starring Emily Sewell Smith, is someone who uses her...
Andrew Ginger/Likes Dogs – A Review
In today’s digital world, love has no bounds when it comes to the efficiency and accessibility of online dating apps to find their one...
New World Order: Future of Companionship
We recently covered a review called ‘Fantasy of Companionship Between Human & Inanimate’, Dr. Susan Lim & Dr. Christina Teenz Tanz, and they returned...
The Pianist – A Review
Resilience. The heart of a young boy who wants to pursue his dreams by honing and learning his craft to achieve what he wants...
An interview with JAMES MELLO of MIRROR
‘Mirror’ is a short film created by James Mello, about two broken souls reuniting with each other and sharing their personal stories of pain...
IDFA 2021 | A Thousand Fires
A Thousand Fires, the latest documentary from Palestinian-British filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky (Tell Spring Not to Come This Year), offers an intimate look at...
IDFA 2021 | The Balcony Movie
Pawel Lozinski is an anthropologist and loves to study humans by his doorstep. He conceived this documentary called ‘The Balcony Movie’ (Polish: ‘Film balkonowy’),...
A Christmas Horror Fable – Spencer Review
No one enters into marriage, or any partnership, wanting it to be unhappy. Many a storyteller has made a living on the fairy tale...
Disfluency – A Review
Disfluency began as a short film with the same tile in 2018. Anna Baumgarten, who wrote the short, took on the mantle of the writer and director for...
IDFA 2021 | The Banality of Grief
The Banality of Grief by filmmaker Jon Bang Carlsen had its international premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam as part of the...
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‘Moon Knight’ First Look: Oscar Isaac Makes His MCU Superhero Debut in Hard-Hitting Footage
A View of The Sea – The Four Walls Review
The Four Walls, from writer/director Bahman Ghobadi (script co-written by Hamed Habibi), explores very difficult subjects, guilt, and grief. The basic premise is on...
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Kristen Stewart’s Princess Diana Wigs for ‘Spencer’ Cost $12,000 and Took 6 Weeks to Create
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The 15 Best Family and Kids Movies on Netflix Right Now (November 2021)
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Shonda Rhimes on Creating Hit TV at Netflix, ‘Inventing Anna’ and Whether Regé-Jean Page Will Ever Return to ‘Bridgerton’
Society Exposed: Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Review
In Romanian writer/director Radu Jude’s absurdist social satire, high school teacher Emi (Katia Pascariu) faces a public scandal after a personal sex tape is...
A Journey that Skims the Surface: Review of Chaos Walking
Directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity), this science fiction western struggles to live up to the promise of its star-studded cast and intriguing...
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fiona Shaw Join John Krasinski’s Next Movie (Exclusive)
Pingyao Film Festival 2021 | Pedro
In Pedro, from writer & director (and first-time filmmaker) Natesh Hegde, the world and life of Pedro (played by Gopal Hegde, Natesh’s father) is quickly established before...
Pingyao Film Festival 2021 | Mama, I’m Home
Mama, I'm Home was part of the 5th Pingyao Film Festival as part of the Crouching Tigers Section for 1st-3rd time filmmakers. Mama, I’m Home is the...
An interview with Corey Davis on the making of I See You
We're speaking with Corey Davis, who co-directed I See You with Kristen Desantis the story. This is a shocking and provocative film about a...
On the process of making Justin and Werloobees: An interview
Today, we are speaking with Ellen Weisberg and Ken Yoffe about their touching animated short, Justin and the Werloobees. The film is based on their popular book, Fruit...
An interview with Adriano Forti of LOST IN THE WOODS
‘Lost in the Woods’ is a feature film based on the videogame adaption of the popular Nintendo 64 videogame ‘The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s...
Mirror (2021) – A Review
‘Mirror’ is a short film directed by James Mello about a divorced young mom named Emily who has struggled with the abuse and use...
On the process of making Healing: An interview with Hart Ginsburg
‘Healing’ is an experimental film. It combines the form of transitional imagery and soft music, aimed as a medium used to help awaken one’s...
More than a Rom-Com, I’m Your Man Explores Humanity with Wit and Grace
Maren Eggert and Dan Stevens star in Maria Schrader (Unorthodox)’s whimsical but thought- provoking sci-fi rom-com about a scientist and the AI humanoid designed...
Pingyao Film Festival 2021 | Prayers for the Stolen
In director Tatiana Huezo’s first foray into fiction, three young girls come of age in a rural Mexican village marked by violent conflict. Noche...
An interview with Michelle L. Li, Director of Sleep Talking
'囈語 (Sleep Talking)' is a short film focusing on abstract dance and expression of an unnamed Woman. There are plenty of beautiful costume designs...
Kenneth Willim and the process of making A Silent Truth
Today, we’re speaking with about his short film, A Silent Truth. This film depicts an atrocity committed against ethnic Chinese people in Indonesia in...
Collider
'Annie Live': First Look at Celina Smith as Annie in NBC Adaptation
Interview with Mathew Thomas Champion – Growing up guide pup – Emotion code 2.0, E46...
‘Growing Up Guide Pup’ is a webisode series focusing on raising awareness of the service dogs and its growing benefits for their community. We have...
An interview with Kyle Cowling about No Runners
‘No Runners’ is a great example of focusing on Trevor Stewart’s life, a motorcyclist, and his struggles with mental health, which is a very...
An interview with Robert Feldmaier on the process of making of Visa Issues
'Visa Issues’ is a drama short film written by Robert Feldmaier (who also plays the lead role as Alex) and has been making the...
An interview with Jesse Gasca Garcia of NOCIVA
‘NOCIVA is a short film about a school principal confronting a psychopathic teacher who has been on the path of tormenting his students, specifically...
Interview with Charlie Norton about his short, Graffiti
In this psychological thriller, we follow a very highly strung principal as he searches for the student who’s been defacing the boy’s bathroom with...
On Berlin Film Festival: An interview with Carlo Chatrian
Berlinale film festival is, without doubt, one of the top three film festivals in the world. Historically it was created as a response to...
An interview with Ryan Park on the process of making Crescendo
Ryan Park’s short film, Crescendo, follows Gretchen, who immigrated to the US with her family and hoped to find success as a songwriter. But then...
On the process of making “Mustang”: An interview with Katerina Kuncicka
‘MUSTANG’ is a short film about a young boy who is paraplegic but does whatever it takes to train hard and doing what he...
Why Me? Interview with the Director, Shaha Mag
Today we’re speaking with the filmmaker behind the short film, Why Me?, Shaha Mag. This is a wonderfully fun, sombre, scary and thought-provoking film....
An Interview with Paul James Houghton, Director of From Under the Bridge: When Bullies...
'From Under the Bridge: When Bullies Become Trolls’ is a critically-acclaimed short film that takes aim to raise awareness to cyber-bullying, bullying, suicide, and...
Variety
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Pingyao Film Festival 2021 | Brighton 4th
Retired Georgian wrestler named Kakhi (Levan Tedaishvili) travels to Brighton, New York to help support his troubled son. The film ‘Brighton 4th’, directed by...
Pingyao Film Festival 2021 | Paka (River of Blood)
Vengeance is a dish best served in blood. Nithin Lukrose’s feature film directional debut ‘PAKA (River of Blood)’ is an Indian Malayalam feature film...
Constancia – A Review
‘Constancia’ is a Spanish word for “constancy”, meaning the steadfastness of mind under duress. A film by Francisco A. Gacuya Jr., he describes the...
On the process of writing of “Time”; an interview with Mario Telles
Today we're speaking with Mario Telles, the screenwriter behind the script, Time. The script tells the tale of a group of young people trying...
Pingyao Film Festival 2021 | Feathers
Feathers, from director Omar El Zohairy and his co-writer Ahmed Amer, won the top prize at Cannes Critics’ Week. It's a dark comedy that...
Pingyao Film Festival 2021 | As Far As I Can Walk
Global and economic crises have created a lot of displaced people seeking asylum, safety, and the pursuit of life in new countries. This year...
Variety
International Box Office: ‘Venom 2’ Rips Into $62.3 Million, ‘No Time to Die’ Nears $450 Million Globally
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Iranian Director Panah Panahi’s ‘Hit the Road’ Wins London Film Festival Top Prize
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25 Years and 5 Movies Later, Here’s How the ‘Scream’ Franchise Came to Be
The Fight to Control the Narrative: Comparing Britney Spears Documentaries
Britney vs Spears, the Netflix documentary from journalist Jenny Eliscu and filmmaker Erin Lee Carr tackling Britney Spears’ conservatorship, is the latest in a...
Spooky Tales and Satisfying Scares in Netflix’s Nightbooks
Hansel and Gretel meets One Thousand and One Nights in Netflix’s newest spooky feature aimed at kids. After a haunted trap involving his favourite...
Nociva – A Review
Parents with young children, viewer discretion is advised. As a parent myself, watching ‘Nociva’ (Spanish word for “Harmful”) could trigger some anxiety who has...
Mustang – A Review
“He who wants, looks for a way. He who doesn’t, looks for an excuse.” The short film ‘Mustang’ directed by Katerina Kuncicka is poetry...
Crescendo or Diminuendo? A Review
Ryan Park’s short film, Crescnedo is a highly relatable short documentary. It is so relatable because it involves someone chasing down her dream despite...
On the process of making Caring is Sharing: An interview with Laura D’Asta
‘Caring is Sharing’ is a super short film about a moment shared between neighbours during the pandemic. It’s a simple shot from a view...
On Making Reloaded: An interview with George Tounas
'Reloaded' is a mid-sized film that is currently feature in the Toronto Independent Film Festival of Cift and also has won a few awards...
Would you take the immortality pill? Remco Texer’s Hazegrauw
Man’s desire for immortality is as old as the hills. But in each age, the topic is seen in a different light. Today, as...
Reloaded – A Review
‘Reloaded’ is a German mid-size film about detective Jimmy Cloud, directed and played by George Tounas, who is caught in a whirlwind of underground...
Do you See What I See? Corey Davis’ Short, I See You
The first time I saw Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film, Read Window, I thought that surely the film can’t be as straightforward as it seems....
Director Shaha Mag Forces Us to Ask: Why Me?
The short film, Why Me?, directed by Shaha Mag is both very fun, very frightening and very thought provoking. But not necessarily in that...
Lost in the Woods – A Review
Videogame fans rejoice! Director Adriano Forti has created a film adaptation of his vision of the Nintendo 64 classic hit ‘The Legend of Zelda:...
Caring is Sharing – A Review
Shot on iPhone. Remember that meme? ‘Caring is Sharing’ is a short film literally shot on an iPhone X in pretty much a one...
What’s so Special about Election Night?
I happened to be living in Washington DC in 2008, at Scott Circle, just a few blocks from the White House. I remember being...
Sleep Talking – A Review
Art and the expression of art can be presented in many forms of medium, such as live on stage, busker festivals, music, dance, design,...
Cassidy Blues: A Blast from the Past or A Call to a Better Future?
Cassidy Blues is an irreverent and fun romp. It was written and directed by Richard Corso and Kareem Kamahi Taylor. What the filmmakers are...
Not Just “Sort Of” Wonderful – A Review
CBC has a streaming platform called CBC Gem, that exists in a free, ad-supported (AKA commercial), way, or with a $4.99 a month subscription....
Muppets Haunted Mansion – A Review
I’ve been excited about Muppets Haunted Mansion since I heard about it. It’s perfect Disney synergy. Who better to explore one of their most...
IndieWire
Timothée Chalamet Shares First Look at ‘Wonka’ from Set of Warner Bros. Prequel
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Matt Damon, Jodie Comer on How ‘The Last Duel’ Is “Relevant Today”
From Under the Bridge: When Bullies Become Trolls – A Review
Cyber-bullying has been on the rise since the early 2000s that could cause victims to cause self-harm, or even suicide. With many social networking...
Healing – A Review
‘Healing’ is an experimental film. It combines the form of transitional imagery and soft music, aimed as a medium used to help awaken one’s...
Festival Review: New York International Women Festival
There are 122 projects in the current New York International Women Festival, a seasonal online film festival, submitted in a variety of categories (features,...
No Runners – A Review
Mental Health awareness has been a very important topic in recent years, one that is considered a difficult topic to communicate to others that...
Fantasy of Companionship Between Human and Inanimate – A Review
Fiction and animation go well together in this intriguing short film ‘Fantasy of Companionship Between Human & Animate’. The story is about how the...
Festival Review: Calgary Independent Film Festival – June 2021
The June 2021 edition of the Calgary Independent Film Festival is held in Calgary, Alberta. Many awards have been given out to the talented...
Uncovering Kenneth Willim’s A Silent Truth
Some atrocities are better known than others. Some are taught in schools, depicted in films and books, and some have holidays to commemorate them....
Growing Up Guide Pup – Ep 46 – The Emotion Code 2.0 – A...
Director Matthew Thomas Chapman has a love and passion for dogs and has worked on the unscripted web series ‘Growing Up Guide Pup’. This...
Interview with Karel Och, the Artistic director of Karlovy Vary Film Festival
The Karlovy Vary Film Festival is the largest film festival in the Czech Republic and the most prestigious such festival in Central and Eastern...
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China Box Office: ‘Battle at Lake Changjin’ Gets Underway With $235M Opening
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge Joins London Film Festival Jury
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La Cita (2021) – A Review
Transgender rights have been an ongoing issue around the world, facing discrimination of what man is supposed to be, and having to see those...
San Sebastian Film Festival 2021 | The Noise of Engines
French Canadian writer-director Philippe Grégoire makes his feature debut with The Noise of Engines, a quirky dramedy about a young instructor at the Canadian...
Toronto Film Festival 2021 | Medusa
Writer-director Anita Rocha Da Silveira returns to the teen thriller genre with her sophomore feature, Medusa, a stylish and energized drama tackling the rise...
Visa Issues – A Review
‘Visa Issues’ is a drama short film written by Robert Feldmaier (who also plays the lead role as Alex) and has been making the...
Jose Luis Rebordinos and his vision of San Sebastian Film Festival: An interview
Amir Ganjavie, UniversalCinema Magazine (UM): In this film festival, I see that there is a theme of sustainability. For example, the red carpet used...
Toronto Film Festival 2021 | Belfast
Belfast from writer/director Kenneth Branagh won this year’s TIFF People’s Choice Award. Previous winners have gone on to do well during award season, most...
Toronto Film Festival 2021 | One Second
One Second from filmmaker Zhang Yimou was TIFF’s closing night Gala presentation, and whether viewed at home or Roy Thomson Hall or the Princess...
Festival Review: Calgary Independent Film Festival – April 2021
The April 2021 edition of the Calgary Independent Film Festival is held in Calgary, Alberta. Many awards have been given out to the talented...
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Janet Jackson Tells Her Story for the First Time in New Lifetime Documentary
On making You are Not Alone: An Interview with Kaia Hathaway
Kaia Hathaway’s short film, You Are Not Alone is a touching story about high school student struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts. The film...
An Interview with Michelle Barton about Destiny Now
Michelle Barton has created a short film for anyone who’s tired of COVID, sick of the us vs. them narrative, and stressed by the...
Festival Review: Vancouver Independent Film Festival
The Vancouver Independent Film Festival is both an online and physical film festival. It operates as a seasonal online festival, then a select number...
Annette – A Review
Annette, a musical romantic drama, is Leos Carax's first feature since 2012’s indescribable Holy Motors. Annette pairs him up with Ron and Russell Mael,...
San Sebastian Film Festival 2021 | Dispatch #1
The San Sebastian Film Festival is held in San Sebastian, one of the northern cities of Spain. The city is located near the sea,...
San Sebastian Film Festival 2021 | Inventory
Somebody shot at me! That’s the premise for Slovenian film director Darko Sinko’s feature film debut ‘Inventory’, with a world premiere at the 2021...
What are the Beasts in Beasts of the Southern Wild?
The most interesting interpretations of Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, those from Silpa Kovvali for the Atlantic and Kelly Candaele for the...
Venice Film Festival 2021 | Dispatch #2
We’ve entered the fifth day of the Venice Film Festival. What’s clear so far is the acceptable and defensible quality of the films. In...
San Sebastian Film Festival 2021 | As in Heaven
“Trust in the good Lord’s plan”. ‘As in Heaven’ is a coming-of-age Danish film directed by Tea Lindeburg, her first feature film debut currently...
San Sebastian Film Festival 2021 | History of a Steering Wheel
Iban Toledo Ibañez and Iñaki Alforja Sagone are the directors of the documentary, ‘History of a Steering Wheel’, focusing on the disappearance of José...
Toronto Film Festival 2021 | All My Puny Sorrows
Michael McGowan personifies most Canadian storytellers in that, unlike their American counterparts they're often compared to, few specialize in a genre. While One Week...
Toronto Film Festival 2021 | Terrorizers
Terrorizers is a film that excels because it’s so deeply structured. Its structure is more similar to that of modern television than film. The first...
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Dune Makes Promising International Box Office Debut
Toronto Film Festival 2021 | Nobody Has to Know
A man’s amnesia enables two people to explore love and identity in Nobody Has to Know, the latest feature from Belgian actor, writer, and...
Toronto Film Festival 2021 | Inexorable
lgian director Fabrice Du Welz returns to the Toronto International Film Festival with Inexorable, an erotic thriller about a mysterious young woman who infiltrates...
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‘Wolf’ Review: George MacKay and Lily-Rose Depp Give Full-Bodied Performances in Identity Drama
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From Heath Ledger to Charlize Theron, 25 Best Acting Transformations in Films
Toronto Film Festival 2021 | Silent Land
‘Silent Land’, directed by Agnieszka Woszczynska, made its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. This is a story focuses on a Polish...
Toronto Film Festival 2021 | Whether the Weather is Fine
Following the real-life events of Philippine’s Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, director Carlo Francisco Manatad makes his directional debut to highlight the aftermath of a...
Venice Film Festival 2021 | The Great Movement
Bolivian director Kiro Russo returns to the Venice Film Festival scene with his second feature film, ‘El Gran Movimiento’ (English title: The Great Movement)....
Toronto Film Festival 2021 | The Odd-Job Men
Gear up for some fun times with three extraordinary men…who are just, ordinary. Director Neus Ballus brings us ‘The Odd-Job Men’, a Spanish quirky...
Interview with Marisa Avitia on the making of Orchid Daydreams
Today we're speaking with Marisa Avitia about the script for her short film, Orchid Daydream.
Chris McClure, UniversalCinema Magazine (UM): First off, What inspired you...
Venice Film Festival 2021 | Erasing Frank
Is it still worth watching films on communist repressions of 1950-the 1980s in the Eastern bloc? Could it help cinephiles revisit the dialectic of...
Venice Film Festival 2021 | The Last Chapter
Gianluca Mataresse’s film The Last Chapter is hard to classify. It is essentially a documentary, but probably a better word for it would be...
Venice Film Festival 2021 | Al Garib
Syrian screenwriter and Director Ameer Fakher Eldin makes his feature film debut in Venice Film Festival with “Al Garib” (English title: The Stranger). This...
Venice Film Festival 2021 | You Resemble Me
Writer and Director Dana Amer makes her first feature film directional debut with ‘You Resemble Me’, with a world premiere standout at the Venice...
Venice Film Festival 2021 | Promises
Politics. Some cannot stand them yet cannot live without them. We live in a world full of politics, whether it is from a society...
Toronto Film Festival 2021 | Anatolian Leopard
New Year’s Eve is for many a time to reflect on the past and to welcome the future. It is the passing away of...
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‘Malignant’s Bonkers Ending Will Go Down in Horror History
Venice Film Festival 2021 | Red Inferno: Joe D’Amato on the Road of Excess
Italian filmmakers Manlio Gomarasca and Massimiliano Zanin present Red Inferno: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess, their feature documentary that pays tribute to the life...
Venice Film Festival 2021 | Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Three Minutes – A Lengthening is a different approach to a documentary in that, except for a brief capture of a 3D recreation that feels...
Venice Film Festival 2021 | Californie
A young Moroccan Italian girl navigates life from age nine through fourteen in Californie, the fictional coming-of-age feature debut from documentary filmmaker partners Alessandro...
Venice Film Festival 2021 | Qui Rido Io
In the midst of the Bell Époque in Naples, Italy, the great comedian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta dominated the box office with his plays...
Venice Film Festival 2021 | Nuestros Días Más Felices
Low-stakes dramatic Sci-Fi seems to be in vogue at Venice this year if Out of Sync and Nuestros Días Más Felices are indicators. This is a trend I...
Venice Film Festival 2021 | Giulia
In filmmaker Ciro De Caro’s third feature film, a young woman finds herself in a state of limbo amidst a scorching Italian summer and...
Venice Film Festival 2021 | Dispatch #1
This is my first time participating in the Venice Film Festival. What makes this festival different is that all the series and events at...
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Venice Film Festival 2021 | Detours
Big cities are full of stories. Individuals and groups each have their own purposes and narratives that they live out alongside the millions of...
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‘Dune’ Review: Spectacular and Engrossing…Until It Isn’t
Venice Film Festival 2021 | Once Upon a Time in Calcutta
Once Upon a Time in Calcutta starts with a card “inspired by true events,” and as writer/director Aditya Vikram Sengupta described the film is...
Venice Film Festival 2021 | Out of Sync
In most films, outside of music, the sound design remains almost hidden to the viewer. This is because most sound in film is diegetic...
Venice Film Festival 2021 | Private Desert
Daniel (Antonio Saboia), a 40-year-old police officer, is currently suspended from his duties due to an internal investigation. Out of a job and under...
Before the Music Stops: Ryan Park’s Crescendo
A lot of musicians, and even famous musicians have hearing problems. Everyone knows that Beethoven went deaf late in his career. But many rock...
Breaking Down Dissolved Girl
Over the course of the twentieth century, science fiction went from being highly optimistic to downright dystopian. Shows like Lost in Space and films...
Venice Film Festival 2021 | Atlantide
Venice was founded by Celtic peoples in the aftermath of the fall of the Roman empire. They built a place that would be difficult,...
Getting Burned on Tinder: Love, Laugh, Doom, Tears
Online dating services have been around for a long time now, at least a couple of decades. Initially, they were quite involved and required...
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‘As Far as I Can Walk’ Takes Top Prize at Karlovy Vary Film Festival
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Spike Lee Cuts 9/11 Conspiracy Theories from Final Chapter of ‘NYC Epicenters’ Doc
Fantasia Film Festival 2021
While many key film events in countries recovering from lockdown and experiencing some stability in health situation came out of hiatus or virtual space...
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Marion Cotillard on Singing While Smoking, Swimming, and During Sex in ‘Annette’
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2021 | Otar’s Death
A car accident upends the lives of two families, providing one with hope and the other despair in this tragicomic drama from Georgian director...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2021 | Roots
Tea Lukač makes her feature directorial debut with Roots, a conceptual documentary that captures scenic landscapes and personal reflections in Dvor, Croatia, Lukač’s hometown....
Annette 2021 Review
Leos Carax’s Annette was hyped as being an all-singing musical in the tradition of Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), a Palm d’Or...
Locarno Film Festival 2021 | Around Rocha’s Table
A Tavola De Rocha / Around Rocha’s Table, directed by Samuel Barbosa, is a documentary about the analysis of many cinematic works of late...
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Box Office: ‘Free Guy’ Poised to Take Top Spot for Second Week
Phighter and the process of writing: An interview with Shantay Cormier
Today we're speaking with Shantay Cormier about the script for her as yet un-produced short film, Phighter. This is the story of two very...
An interview with Jaye Allison on the making of Jada’s Be The Rhythm
We're speaking today with Jaye Allison, the extraordinarily accomplished performance artist who's career has spanned 40 years. She's the author of the 2015 book,...
Interview with director Michael Utt about his film, The Footsteps of Zeus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIrhbu39nls
We had the opportunity to pose a few questions to Michael Utt, the director of the award winning film, The Footsteps of Zeus. This is...
Locarno Film Festival 2021 | Shankar’s Fairies
Class divisions take centre stage in director Irfana Majumdar’s feature debut, Shankar’s Fairies. Set in northern India in 1962, the film revolves around the...
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Cannes-Winning Afghan Director Trying to Escape Kabul: “If I Survive This, I Will Make Films About What Happened”
Berlin Shorts Awards – MAY 2021
The May 2021 edition of the Berlin Shorts Award has come and gone. Many awards have been given out to the talented filmmakers in...
San Francisco Indie Short Festival – MAY 2021
Film festivals look to showcase talented filmmakers, and filmmakers look for the right film festival to get the right publicity. The San Francisco Indie...
Locarno Film Festival 2021 | Soul of a Beast
Writer/director Lorenz Merz’s second feature film, Soul of a Beast, is a genre-bending story that tackles young love, loss and parenthood. In the midst...
Locarno Film Festival 2021 | Secret Name
What’s in a name? People have been pondering that for ages, Shakespeare did in Romeo & Juliet, Arthur Miller did in The Crucible, and...
Locarno Film Festival 2021 | Our Eternal Summer
Our Eternal Summer lives in the heady space of youth, where the summers are endless and hazy. It opens with a VO that lets...
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EMMA STONE WILL RETURN FOR ‘CRUELLA 2’
Well-To-Doozy and the process of its creation: An Interview with McDrag, O’Malley
Today we’re pleased to be interviewing the band Slum about their video, “Well to Doozy.” It’s a brilliant and fun video, with a distinctive...
Festival: Roma Shorts Film Festival
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Description: Roma Shorts is dedicated to celebrating the works of independent filmmakers from around the world. The festvial pays special attention to ultra low-budget...
Locarno Film Festival 2021 | The Sadness
Horror-flick fans, here is another infectious zombie apocalypse (currently screening at the Locarno Film Festival) this time set in Taiwan. Introducing Director, Rob Jabbaz,...
Locarno Film Festival 2021 | Brotherhood
Locarno: Brotherhood, directed by Francesco Montagner, follows a story of three young brothers in Bosnia, Jabir, Usama and Useir, who were born into raising...
Locarno Film Festival 2021 | A New Old Play
As the passage of history and time are both unstoppable, the dialectics of cinema, art, and politics. In this context, Chinese rich history and...
Locarno Film Festival 2021 | Money Has Four Legs
Under pressure from his family, his producers, and the censorship office, a young Burmese director struggles to make his feature film in Money Has...
Locarno Film Festival 2021 | Zahorí
Writer/director Marí Alessandrini presents a sweeping South American coming-of-age feminist western that reshapes the genre in her feature debut, Zahorí.
Set in the steppe of...
Locarno Film Festival 2021 | Il Legionario
Il Legionario is an Italian film from director Hleb Papou along with his co-writers Giuseppe Brigante and Emanuele Mochi, about two brothers at odds....
Locarno Film Festival 2021 | The Case of the Vanishing Gods
Acting as a pilot episode for a sci-fi anthology series, “The Psycho Ward,” The Case of the Vanishing Gods from the creative mind of...
Festival: Austin Art Festival
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Description: The Austin International Art Festival believes that many films are produced in today’s world, and many of these films want to know of...
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Locarno Film Festival 2021 | I Giganti
Bonifacio Angius's last feature, I Giganti, to be screened in the Locarno Film Festival, soon resembles Marco Ferrari's controversial masterpiece Grande Bouffe (1974). In both, death...
On making Love in the Age of Covid, an interview with Juan Francisco Calero...
https://youtu.be/rsBJHn3-5rY
In the short film, Love in the Age of Covid, director and producer Juan Francisco Calero Hueso has given a fascinating snapshot of what...
Locarno Film Festival 2021 | Locarno Dispatch #1
The Locarno Festival has entered its fourth day. Unlike other festivals, Locarno is home to experimental films and those films which expand the language...
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‘Free Guy’ Review: Ryan Reynolds Levels Up in This Meta-Video Game Rom-Com
Paris International Short Festival
The Paris International Short Festival is an online bi-monthly festival whose mission is “to discover and promote talented filmmakers from all over the world.”...
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Tom Hanks Joins Wes Anderson's Next Film
Review: Dropping Out
In the opening scenes of the 1978 classic film, The Deer Hunter, we watch as a group of men toil in a hellish steel...
Review: Geneva Jacuzzi’s Casket
Geneva Jacuzzi’s song Casket is modern synth-pop. It sounds like it could have been made in the early 80s; a cross between The Human...
Review: Pushing up Orchids
When I was 17, I remember being in my aunt and uncle’s house, when my uncle came in the door saying that the radio...
The Lying Mirror: Review of Paulina Lagundi Ulrich’s short, Dress
Paulina Lagundi Ulrich is a veteran director, having directed and produced several shorts as well as the feature, Mail Order Monster. This time out,...
On making Krunk: An interview
The music video, Krunk, was directed and shot by Francesco Siro Brigiano. The track is drawn from Alessio Pianelli's latest album, A Sicilian Traveler....
On the process of making A.U.D: An interview with Majid Ammam
With A.U.D., 24 year old Majid Ammam has given us a powerful and beautiful film about friendship, alcoholism, loss and the possibility of redemption....
Review: Shantay Cormier’s Script, Phighter
In an alternate reality, the Montagues and Capulets got along just fine. Romeo and Juliet fell madly in love, got married and then realized...
Review: You’re Not Alone
At a crucial point in the 1946 classic, It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey, in a moment of despair, decides to end it all...
On the process of writing The Christians: Earth’s Cry, Heaven’s Smile, An interview...
We’re speaking with Tony Giotsus about his screenplay for The Christians: Earth’s Cry, Heaven’s Smile. This is the tale of a good Christian who loses...
Screenplay Review: The Christians – Earth’s Cry, Heaven’s Smile
The screenplay for The Christians: Earth’s Cry, Heaven’s Smile by Tony Gioutsos and Linda M. Wright is the faith-based story of Christos Giostos (whose...
Sydney Indie Short Festival
The Sydney Indie Short Festival showcases independent filmmakers from around the world, celebrating diverse stories and the power of short film. Over 200 short...
Review: Kelly Whitlock’s Survey
In the last part of Plato’s Republic, Socrates tells the story of Er, a soldier who died in battle, then went on a journey...
Review: The Tango and Me
With The Tango and Me, Jørgen Erik Assentoft has created a sensitive short documentary about Alejandra Mantiñan. the well-known tango dancer. This is in...
Jada Dance’s Be the Rhythm; A Review
Jaye Allison has been working independently in the world of performing arts for over 40 years. In 2015 she wrote her first book, Chronicles...
On the making of Soldiers: Six Stories, Six Wars: An Interview
Today we're speaking with Tony Villani about his wide-ranging and eye-opening documentary, Soldiers: Six Stories, Six Wars. In the film, Villani interviews six individuals...
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Hong Kong Indie Film Festival
The Hong Kong Indie Film Festival is a new online bi-monthly film festival. In their May-July selection they had 89 films. I selected four...
Paris International Short Festival
The Paris International Short Festival is an online bi-monthly festival. There are 69 films in the current selection. I selected four films to review...
Review: Guys Weekend
In psychology, there’s a principle called projection. When someone is projecting, they refuse to believe some negative thing about themselves that on some level...
Review: Confession
For at least a century, church attendance rates have been declining. This phenomenon has been more pronounced in Europe than in the United States....
Review: Alaska Long Hunters
The short film, Alaska Long Hunters is a gripping short film that is, in part, about survival in the wilderness. But it’s also not...
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‘In Front of Your Face’ Review: The Difference Is in the Details in Hong Sangsoo’s Latest
Interview with Beatrice Fiorentino, Artistic director of Venice Critics’ Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GINvaUvrkbk
The 36th Venice International Film Critics' Week is a parallel and independent section organized by the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI)
during the...
The winners of the Iranian women filmmaker section of the Prades Cinema Meetings Festival...
The winners of the Iranian women filmmaker section of the Prades Cinema Meetings Festival were announced. After showing eight films of the competition, the...
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Dune’s Epic Second Trailer Brings House Atreides (And War) To The Planet Arrakis
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Bruno Reidal, Confession of a Murderer
On September 1st, 1905 in rural France, seventeen-year-old seminarian Bruno Reidal brutally murders a young boy by decapitation and promptly surrenders himself to authorities....
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Animal
French environmental activist and filmmaker Cyril Dion returns to the screen with Animal, his second feature documentary tackling climate change and the impending sixth...
Interview with Tonya Mantooth, the director of San Diego Intl Film Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27trEvJLuLE
Just 120 miles south of Los Angeles/Hollywood, the San Diego International Film Festival (SDiFF) has quickly become a favorite of industry insiders and celebrities....
Review: A Show about Co-Workers
If you ever went to university and worked at what was once called a Joe job, you’ll feel right at home in this webseries....
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‘A Hero’ Review: Asghar Farhadi Chews More Than He Bites Off in This Tale of a Desperate Good Samaritan
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Aya
Thomas Wolfe famously popularized the idiom “you can’t go home again” in his novel of the same title, the meaning derived from it is...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Cannes Dispatch #6
The Cannes Film Festival awards will be announced tomorrow and the closing ceremony will be held. The final two films of the festival will...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Anaïs in Love
The beginning of the film moves as fast as Anaïs speaks. An early line is, “You advance like a bulldozer,” which is an apt...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Europa
Europa is Haider Rashid’s brutal examination of the refugee crisis inspired by the real-world acts of violence in Bulgaria.
It’s unflinching. The “Migrant Hunters” are abhorrent and...
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Festival de Cannes 2021 | Moneyboys
Sex, money and community are accessed by young Fei (Kai Ko) when he migrates from his home in a rural Chinese village to a...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | La Traviata, My Brothers and I
In La Traviata, My Brothers and I which was shown at the Un Certain Regard section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, writer-director Yohan...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Cannes Dispatch #5
As we approach the final days of the Cannes Film festival, a consensus is beginning to build around Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment Number...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | In the Soil
In the Soil is one of those films without a lot of dialogue and without a lot of action. But you’re immediately hooked. As...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | The Tsugua Diaries
How meta can a film get? Miguel Gomes and Maureen Fazendeiro tried to find out with The Tsugua Diaries. Shot in 16mm during the...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Babi Yar Context
Few are ignorant of the atrocities inflicted on the Jewish peoples during the Second World War, though much teachings received on the topic in...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | A Chiara
Raphael, the Renaissance artist, was famous because he painted people as they were with no embellishment. At least this is what one character in...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero
The main theme of Asghar Farhadi’s latest “A Hero”, is the question of how to be a hero in the contemporary world, and in...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Free Men
As Benjamin Franklin once said, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Franklin...
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‘WandaVision’s Matt Shakman to Direct Next ‘Star Trek’ Movie
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Freda
Freda, written and directed by Gessica Geneus, could not be more timely. On July 7, 2021, Haitian president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated by a...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Inherent
Gothic horror collides with coming-of-age drama in Danish writer/director Nicolai G.H. Johansen’s striking short film, Inherent. Wholly absent of dialogue, the film follows a...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Rehana
Rehana, written and directed by Abdullah Mohammad Saad, is not an easy film. It focuses on an incident of sexual abuse, and so, should...
Festvial de Cannes 2021 | Cannes Dispatch #4
It is the fourth day of Cannes Film Festival and we are approaching the middle of the festival. As for the festival itself, there...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Cannes Dispatch #3
It’s the second day of the festival, and the wheels of Cannes keep rolling. As Thierry Fermaux, Cannes artistic director, says, what makes the...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Cannes Dispatch #2
Though I could not make it to the Cannes Film Festival this year, the distributers of these films in the festival sent me their...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Cannes Dispatch #1
The 2021 Cannes Film Festival in 2021 officially kicked off on July 6th. It’s a very different festival this year because of the Covid-19...
Interview with Yuri Sasamoto about Can’t Judge
Yuri Sasamoto has given us a fascinating look at a possible future. Her short film, Can't Judge - Corona and the Japanese Government is...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Softie
Softie is about growing up and that push into personhood. For Johnny, a 10-year-old who has had a lot of adult responsibilities thrust upon him,...
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Festival de Cannes 2021 | Great Freedom
A gay man repeatedly imprisoned for his sexuality in postwar Germany forges an unlikely bond with his cell mate in Austrian director Sebastian Meise’s...
Festival de Cannes 2021 | Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege
From 2013 to 2015 during the Syrian revolution, Bashar Al-Assad’s regime besieged a district of Damascus called Yarmouk Camp, home to the largest Palestinian...
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Black Widow Review
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Cannes Regular Anurag Kashyap Talks ‘Dobaaraa,’ Starring Taapsee Pannu (EXCLUSIVE)
Entering Fear Street
Fear Street Part 1: 1994 is Netflix’s first chapter in a three-part film series inspired by the R.L. Stine book series of the same...
The Unlikely Emergence of the Planned Parenthood Buddy Comedy Genre / Unpregnant Review
Every so often, a subject or idea worms its way into the zeitgeist resulting in multiple films. My favourite example of this is how...
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Kevin Feige Wants To Keep Working With Scarlett Johansson After ‘Black Widow
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Dee Rees on Becoming the First Black American Woman Featured in the Criterion Collection With ‘Pariah’
Gerrome Miller and his Performance in Deny, A Conversation
With his short film, Deny, Alioune Binaté has offered a real treat, both visually and in terms of plot. We’re here today with Gerrome...
Review: Love in the Age of Covid
In the Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel, a couple try to stay in touch despite various barriers. But after a time, the main female character...
Vancouver Independent Festival | An interview with Gabrielle Miller on making 9 Lives
We had a chance to speak with Gabrielle Miller about her short film, "9 Lives: Chapter One." This is a touching and intriguing film...
Interview with Gary Beeber about Michael Malone, Portrait of an American Organic Farmer
Gary Beeber has given us a beautiful portrait with his documentary, Michael Malone, Portrait of an American Organic Farmer. In it, he follows Malone...
Interview with Vanja Kaludjercic, director of Rotterdam Film Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3v_ztRG9FU
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) closes its 50th anniversary edition. Adapting to the changing circumstances, from 1 to 7 February the festival presented its...
Tribeca Film Festival 2021 | A Conversation with Mollye Asher and Kimberly Parker
https://youtu.be/tolFdOiIHHg
A former boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister. Catch the Fair One is a taut...
Tribeca Film Festival | Tigre Gente (2021) Review
National Geographic explorer Elizabeth Unger makes her feature film debut with Tigre Gente, a stirring documentary that examines the rise of illegal jaguar trade...
Manchester film festival: A conversation with Neil Jeram-Crof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGv5htfOjdA
After a fully virtual 2021 edition, Manchester film festival, a BIFA qualifying film festival, looks forward to welcoming filmmakers to Manchester in 2022 for...
Review: Ariela Rozentul’s Short Film, Butterflies
Ariela Rozentul’s film, Butterflies is one of the more touching and surprising shorts you’re likely to see. It’s surprising for many reasons. Not the...
Mary J. Blige’s My Life – A Review
Filmed in 2019 in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of Mary J. Blige’s “My Life” album, I know in another world where Covid didn’t...
The Witches – Remaking a Classic
Roald Dahl created a bevy of classic children’s books in his lifetime. Many of these works have been adapted, some more than once, as...
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Toronto Film Festival Organizers on the 2021 Lineup and Moving Forward With In-Person Premieres During COVID
The jury of the Prades-France Film Festival (Iranian women filmmakers) was selected
A new section has been created this year for the 62nd Prades-France Film Festival. It includes a particular program to showcase every year the...
Zandashé Brown discuss New Orleans Film Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X1WrIv7law
The Oscar-qualifying New Orleans Film Festival is one of the largest film festivals in the Southeast U.S. This is a festival who hopes to...
Tribeca Festival 2021 | Megan Mylan and the making of Simple as Water
Premiered at Tribeca, Simple as Water, a documentary directed by Oscar winner Megan Mylan, tells a first hand account of the endless waiting experienced...
Tribeca Festival | Perfume de Gardenias (2021) Review
An elderly woman grieving the loss of her husband finds new joy and purpose in creating unique, idiosyncratic funerals for her neighbours in writer/director...
Review: Krunk
Alessio Pianelli has been called one of the best cellists of his generation. Born in 1989 into a musical family, Alessio studied music in...
Where did you get your Eggs? Review of Michael Malone, Portrait of an American...
If you’ve ever seen the film Easy Rider, you probably remember the long sequence in which Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda stumble across a...
The Prompter: Nil Difficile Volenti
Fabio D’Avino’s short film, The Prompter, is as beautifully made as it is intriguing. The film seems born of real experience with the theatre,...
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James Gunn’s ‘The Suicide Squad’ Gets Special Fantasia Fest Screening
In The Heights – A Review
Musical movies have a long and storied Hollywood history. Visually inventive, they also move a lot of story. You can pack a lot more...
Luca – A Review
If you watched the trailer for the movie, there is a good chance you might have been expecting Luca to be Disney/Pixar’s first movie with an...
Alcohol and Heartbreak in Majid Ammam’s A.U.D.
The title of 24 year old Majid Ammam’s feature film, A.U.D. could stand for many things. The film suggests some of them. One possibility...
Austin Art Festival – June 2021
Film festivals look to showcase talented filmmakers, and filmmakers look for the right film festival to get the right publicity. The Austin International Art...
Interview with Agatino Zurria, director of Love Distance
The short film Love Distance follows seven characters as they speak with family and loved ones over their computers amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. The...
With John Darbonne , about his film, Companion
Today we're speaking with John Darbonne the writer and director of the action/horror feature, Companion. I watch a lot of horror films, and this...
Nil Difficile Volenti / Fabio d’Avino
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Nil Difficile Volenti
Director: Fabio d'Avino
A young actor becomes his idol's prompter for a theatrical performance.
During the rehearsals they start to become close, but The...
Review: Sassy Mohen’s Fear, Actually
What if, when Carrie, from the Stephen King film, had her period in the locker room, the girls had helped her out in the...
Tribeca Festival | Simple as Water (2021) Review
One of the striking features of many realistic films and books about war is the overwhelming boredom and confusion that soldiers experience. In All...
Into Schrodinger’s Box
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Into Schrodinger’s Box
Presented by Phoenix Culture Centre of Toronto
Directors: Amir Ganjavie, Nasim Naghavi
Writers: Amir Ganjavie, Nasim Naghavi
Year of Production:...
With Timothy Chen, about his short film, The Decoding Game
We're speaking today with Timothy Chen, the filmmaker and co-writer behind The Decoding Game. This is an action-packed thriller that keeps us on the...
Tribeca Festival | Blind Ambition (2021) Review
Four Zimbabwean sommeliers living in South Africa join forces to compete as the first Zimbabwe team at the World Wine Tasting Championships in this...
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John Wick Chapter 4 – Hiroyuki Sanada Joins The Cast
Death on the Streets, Interview with the Director, Johan Carlsen
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With a title like Death on the Streets and an opening sequence that combines a score of heavy drone music with sweeping shots of endless cornfields...
Tony Villani’s Soldiers: Six Stories, Six Wars
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Tony Villani’s documentary, Soldiers: Six Stories, Six Wars is the diversity of stories he draws on. For one...
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Truth Be Told’ Season 2 Trailer Introduces Kate Hudson to Octavia Spencer’s Apple TV+ Series
Womanhood in time and in love, “Master of None: Moments in Love” shifts narratives...
Dedicated to the places we occupy while we fall in and out of love, “Master of None”’s third season embraces its audience with a...
Gully, An Ode to Disregarded and Underestimated Youth
Sorrow filled children practice escapism through imaginative chaos and brutal violence in Nabil Elderkin directed film “Gully”. Based in South Central L.A., in a...
Tribeca Film Festival | No Straight Lines (2021) Review
The documentary, No Straight Lines, from director Vivian Kleiman, is both a history of LGBTQIA comic books and comic strips as well as an...
Tribeca Film Festival | Brighton 4th (2021) Review
What are cinema's role and artistic telos? Is it to portray the reality or create an alternative surreal medium that makes reality to be...
Variety
HBO Max Isn’t to Blame After ‘In the Heights’ Fizzles at the Box Office
Tribeca Festival | Ascension (2021) Review
How much we know of China and how much cinema can give us a less biased perspective of this evolving society. Ascension (2021-94 minutes),...
Ferit Karahan and the making of Brother’s Keeper
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BROTHER'S KEEPER by Ferit Karahan, Winner of the FIPRESCI Award in the Panorama section and one of the breakout titles of the festival, was...
Gaia: An Unsettling Return to Nature
Horror has many sub-genres and there’s been a recent rise in eco-horror, Gaia being the latest. If Annihilation and The Ruins spored, you would get Gaia.
Gaia,...
Rotterdam Festival | Death on the Streets (2021) Review
With a title like Death on the Streets and an opening sequence that combines a score of heavy drone music with sweeping shots of...
Tribeca Festival | All These Sons (2021) Review
Bing Liu the director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Minding the Gap teams up with his co-editor of that film, Joshua Altman, to co-direct All These Sons....
Variety
Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore Join Todd Haynes Drama ‘May December’
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Santa Barbara Film Fest: Plans Unveiled for In-Person 2022 Edition
On Calgary film festival: An interview with Biran Ownes, the artistic director
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The first Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) was held in 2000 for six days, and was attended by 8,000 people. Now, attendance had more...
Film Fest Ghent and its special program on Greek Cinema: An Interview with Wim De Witte,...
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The 48th edition of Film Fest Ghent takes place from 12 to 23 October. This year, Film Fest Ghent centers on the Greek film...
Talking with Amit Dhuga, about thrilling short, Prisoner
Today we're speaking with Amit Dhuga, who's thrilling short, Prisoner, depicts the world of South Asian gangs in Canada. The story feels like something...
ScreenCrush
Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart Will Voice DC’s ‘Super-Pets’
Pandemic Paranoia or Something More Sinister? Spiralling Deep Into Schrodinger’s Box
The psychological impact of COVID-19 isolation and anxiety propels one woman’s downward spiral in Into Schrodinger’s Box, a tense, topical psychological thriller from directors...
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‘WandaVision’ Visual Effects Video Shows How Vision Came to Life
HollywoodReporter
Star-Studded Vincent Chin Podcast Pulled After Chin Estate Pushback
Kate Winslet shines in the darkness of Easttown
Mare of Easttown follows a blueprint set by a number of detective series which came before it, especially the so-called Scandinavian Noir. A female...
Nancy Drew and the Fantastic Second Season
The sophomore outing is often one of the hardest because with it comes expectations. In these follow-ups, be they TV seasons or movie sequels,...
Indie Films are for the People
Apparently the 2021 Oscars are yet another subject conservative pundit Ben Shapiro and I disagree on.
In one of his rants, Shapiro noted the Oscars...
Variety
Tiffany Haddish to Play Olympic Great Florence Griffith Joyner in Upcoming Biopic
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Jodie Turner-Smith on Breaking Barriers as a Female Navy SEAL in ‘Without Remorse’ and Playing Anne Boleyn
“1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything”
“1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” unveils the wreckage from the downfall of the optimistic music culture that the 1960’s sunshine and daisy...
HollywoodReporter
Box Office: ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ Heads for Mega $57M Opening
Friends: The One with the Reunion
Friends ended its decade-long run in 2004. Friends: The Reunion hails itself as only the second time all six cast members have been together since they wrapped...
Revisiting 101 Dalmatians
With the live-action Cruella newly arrived on Disney+ via Premier Access, it’s worth looking back on 1996’s 101 Dalmatians starring Glenn Close as Cruella. Critics at the time...
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Space Force Season 2' Set Image Reveals Start of Production for Netflix Show
Film Financing: Bondit Media Capital and its structure: An interview with Tyler Gould
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Founded in 2013 and based in Santa Monica, BondIt Media Capital is a world-renowned film, television and media financier. BondIt is a flexible financing...
An interview with Olaf Möller: Rotterdam film festival picks three classics of Iranian cinema
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International Film Festival Rotterdam will be held in the Dutch city from June 2 to 6. The festival picks 3 Iranian films to be...
ScreenCrush
Aaron Taylor Johnson To Play Spider-Man Villain ‘Kraven the Hunter’
Blood Quantum – A Review
Last week was a big week for the zombie genre. “Blood Quantum” (written, directed, and edited by Jeff Barnaby) ate up at the Canadian...
The Real Thing: Review
To love is to be of service in Kôji Fukada’s film “The Real Thing”. Adapted from Mochiru Hoshisato’s 10 volume manga “Living Game”, the...
Variety
Lindsay Lohan to Return to Acting by Starring in Netflix Christmas Romantic Comedy (EXCLUSIVE)
Deny Everything: Review of Alioune Binaté’s short, Deny
With a title as simple as Deny, the audience is bound to wonder what exactly is being denied and why. Is someone being denied...
Review of Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Love, Cecil) presents the lives and literary careers of two of America’s most iconic writers in her latest feature documentary:...
Asia Unbound Special Screening of “Mogul Mowgli” – A Review
“Now where are you really from? The question seems simple, but the answers kinda long…” Zed, played by Riz Ahmed, raps these words from...
Riders of Justice – I Am Sorry…
Anders Thomas Jensen's most recent film, "Riders of Justice" leaves you hooked in for its entire 1:16 minutes. It is not preachy but deeply...
Variety
‘Spiral’ Pushes ‘Saw’ Franchise Past $1 Billion at Global Box Office
Hotdocs Festival | People We Come Across (2021) Review
Doctor and professor Anu Kantele lives by a philosophy of doing what she can to help the people she comes across without allowing a...
Talking about The Decision with Marcelo Machado
We had an opportunity to speak with Marcelo Machado about his new short film, The Decision. This is an elegantly simple film that will...
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Cher Biopic In The Works
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Salma Hayek Lost Two Comedy Roles Because Directors Feared Mexican Lead Would Upset Studio
Last Night on Tulip Street: Review of Elijah Guo’s Short
Elijah Guo is probably best known as an actor who’s been in Law & Order, Special Victims Unit, High Maintenance and other shows. In...
The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Review of Amit Dhuga’s New Short
Amit Dhuga’s new short film will keep you on the edge of your seat for the entire length of the film. It begins with...
200 Meters – A Review
This is the story of a man trying to get to his injured son. The complication? Set in the West Bank he lives on...
The Woman in the Window – A Review
The Woman in the Window is a pretty faithful adaptation of the book of the same name by A. J. Finn. It was originally...
Interview with Mohamed Hefzy, the president of Cairo Film Festival
Cairo film festival is one of the most important festivals in the region and perhaps even the most important. If somebody is interested in...
Who Cares for the Caregivers? Ryo Kagawa’s Michiko
Anyone who’s ever taken a screenwriting class will be familiar with the following situation. The instructor criticizes a student’s scene, only to have the...
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Robert Eggers’ ‘The Northman’ Gets Official Theatrical Release Date
“Invincible” Season 1 – A Review
“Invincible” is not your average superhero cartoon, and it is certainly not suitable for children. Shying away from your typical lighthearted superhero narrative, where...
“Mainstream” – A Review
Remaining in touch with society, while reality is out of reach; an active paradox playing out daily in a world that is hyper attached...
Variety
Venice Fest Prepares to Roll Out Red Carpet for Full-Fledged Physical Edition (EXCLUSIVE)
To a God Unknown: Short from Samantha Casella
In the biography on Samantha Casella’s website, she mentions that she has great veneration for Terrence Malick among other directors and literary figures. This...
Talking about Femicide with Mara Avila
Today we’re speaking with Mara Avila who’s documentary, Femicide. One Case Many Struggles, highlights the very important issue of violence against women through her...
Riders of Justice – I am sorry…
Anders Thomas Jensen's most recent film, " RIDERS OF JUSTICE," leaves you hooked in for its entire 1:16 minutes. It is not preachy but...
The Perfect Candidate – Difficult but not Impossible in evolving KSA
Perfect Candidate is indeed a perfect candidate for a new Saudi Arabian cinema, state of reform, and national transition. Haifaa Al Mansour’s new feature premiered...