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Movie Reviews
Honey Bunch | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Love Like This Before: Sims-Fewer & Mancinelli Examine the...
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...
IndieSponge Episode: 2025 Cannes Palme d’Or Competition Reactions
We haven't yet relaunched, but Kevin Jagernauth and I wanted to have a quick conversation about the nineteen films (plus no-shows) selected for the...
IndieSponge Episode: 14 – 2020 Venice Film Festival Predictions
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, I invited Tommaso...
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
Girlfriend Material: Alex Thompson & Kelly O’Sullivan Complete Production on ‘Mouse’
Best known for last year's surprise Sundance breakout Ghostlight...
Conned Ambition: Stacy Martin Among Players in “Pocket Dream”
Last month while she was doing the red carpet...
The Night We Met I Knew: Barry Jenkins Tapped to Direct ‘Be My Baby’
Filmmaker Barry Jenkins is music to A24's ears. They...
Face the Music: Saoirse Ronan & Austin Butler Join Sean Durkin’s “Deep Cuts”
The A24 folks are getting into the Sean Durkin...
World Cinema News
From the Sun to the Moon to the..: Kurdwin Ayub Begins Casting for ‘Stars’
Kurdwin Ayub is not wasting time mounting what appears...
Faster, Stronger: Harry Melling Joins Kantemir Balagov’s ‘Butterfly Jam’
Last week we updated our readers with the exciting...
Haute Costume: Corneliu Porumboiu Prepping New French Language Feature
Romanian New Wave filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu is in prep...
Butterfly Jam Update: Kantemir Balagov Teams with Cinematographer Jomo Fray
Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov is getting set to move...
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...
