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Movie Reviews
Honey Bunch | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Love Like This Before: Sims-Fewer & Mancinelli Examine the...
Who by Fire (Comme le feu) | Review
Into the Woods: Lesage Explores Wounded Masculinities
In Vincent Sherman’s...
Interviews
Interview: Philippe Lesage – Comme le feu (Who By Fire)
The adults in the room may be battling for...
Interview: Sing J. Lee – The Accidental Getaway Driver
Winner of the Directing Award in the U.S. Dramatic...
Interview: Producer David Thion – Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, Hansen-Løve’s If Love Should Die
This year marks the silver anniversary of French film...
Interview: Péter Kerekes – Wishing on a Star (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
Fiction and documentary filmmaker Péter Kerekes ventured into a...
Interview: Muhammed Hamdy – Perfumed with Mint (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
Steeped in darkness and stillness, there is this pervasive...
Interview: Damian Kocur – Under the Volcano (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
Polish filmmaker Damian Kocur is still relatively new to...
Interview: Nuno Miranda – Flowers of the Dead (Work in progress – 2024 Marrakech Atlas Workshops)
The Atlas Workshops is Marrakech International Film Festival's vital...
IndieSponge Episode: 14 – 2020 Venice Film Festival Predictions
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, I invited Tommaso Tocci to discuss the possible titles that might make it into the 2020 edition of...
IndieSponge Episode 8 – 2020 Cannes vs. Venice, Apple TV+ Gets Behind Scorsese, HBO Max Gets Behind the Safdies
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, Kevin Jagernauth and...
IndieSponge Episode 7 – The Latest on Lanthimos, Zagar, Soderbergh, Chan-Wook & David Robert Mitchell
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, Kevin Jagernauth and...
IndieSponge Episode 6 – Wong Kar-Wai Plants “Blossoms”, Guadagnino Snorts “Scarface” & Blanchett registers for “Armageddon Time”
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, Kevin Jagernauth and...
IndieSponge Episode 5 – Tenet, Spike Lee, Derek Cianfrance & Ari Aster/Lars Knudsen on Save the Green Planet!
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, Kevin Jagernauth and...
IndieSponge Episode 4 – Yankee Comandante, The Ice Beneath Her & An American Pickle
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, Kevin Jagernauth and...
IndieSponge: Episode 3 – Oscar’s Future, Lynne Ramsay Adapting Atwood, 2020 Venice Film Fest Firm
On this week's episode of IndieSponge, Kevin Jagernauth and...
For Your Consideration - Awards CoverageLatest
Sean Baker, Edward Berger, Brady Corbet, Jesse Eisenberg… What are the Oscar Directors Class of ’25 Working on Next?
With only the American Cinema Editors Awards left on...
2025 Oscars: Who Will Win (Anora) and Who Should Win…?
This awards season has been filled with plenty of...
2025 Césars: Emilia Pérez Crowned Best Film, Souleymane’s Story Bikes Away with Four
Emilia Pérez won Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted...
2025 Cinema Eye Honors: No Other Land Takes Best Feature, Mati Diop Wins Best Direction
Last year’s top two documentary titles from the Berlinale...
2024 NYFCC: The Brutalist Nabs Best Picture & Best Actor, Marianne Jean-Baptiste Still in the Mix
The New York Film Critics Circle Awards gave Brady...
2025 Golden Globes: Adrien Brody, Fernanda Torres, Demi Moore, The Brutalist & Flow Get Major Push for Oscar Noms
In what was a highly anticipated Cannes competition rematch,...
2024 European Film Awards: Kulumbegashvili, Delpero, Tsangari, Zürcher, Almodóvar & Mike Leigh in Second Wave
The first batch of titles were announced in August,...
2025 Oscars Best International Film Race: Frontrunners Jacques Audiard, Walter Salles & Maura Delpero Added to Mix
Recent submissions for Best International Feature Film at the...
FYC: Top 10 Cannes Storylines That Will Shape The Awards Race
With the Venice Film Festival set to break bread...
American Indie Films NewsLatest
Face the Music: Saoirse Ronan & Austin Butler Join Sean Durkin’s “Deep Cuts”
The A24 folks are getting into the Sean Durkin...
2024 Rathaus Film Grant: Arrielle Sadé Mock
Last week the SFFILM Rainin Grant announced the recipients...
The Fix Is In: Dev Patel to Slice Serve Tarsem Singh’s ‘The Journeyman’
Coming off what could be a career-best in Dear...
Missing Without a Trace: Margaret Qualley Moves into Zachary Wigon’s ‘Victorian Psycho’
American indie filmmaker Zachary Wigon (2014's The Heart Machine...
World Cinema News
Swapping Bodies: Arthur Harari Begins Production on ‘L’Inconnue’ with Léa Seydoux
As speculation grows wild into what films will populate...
Bertrand Mandico’s ‘Roma elastica’ & Lukas Dhont’s ‘Coward’ Moving Forward; Cannes 2026?
The cineuropa folks always publish the latest advance on...
Standing on a Beach: François Ozon Reteams with Benjamin Voisin for ‘L’Étranger’ (The Outsider)
He broke out big in François Ozon's Summer of...
Who Do you Trust?: Marie Kreutzer Takes a Walk on the Dark Side in “Gentle Monster”
She rose to major prominence when she was showcased...
Weekly & Monthly Features
World Cinema Report: Hong Kong – Most Anticipated for 2023
Hong Kong cinema got a much-needed shot of exuberance...
World Cinema Report: The Philippines – Most Anticipated for 2023
In 2022, the Philippines was on quite a roll...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks in Theaters this September: The Cathedral, God’s Country & Blonde
IONCINEMA.com’s Top 3 Critics’ Picks offers a curated approach...
The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics | Book Review
Published just in time for perusal before David Fincher’s...
Margarethe von Trotta: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series) | Book Review
For its Conversation with Filmmakers Studies series, the University...
William Friedkin: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series) | Book Review
For its Film Studies series, the University Press of...
