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Movie Reviews
Pompei: Below the Clouds | Review
Staples of Naples: Rosi Sifts Through Timeworn Sediments
The past...
What Does that Nature Say to You | Review
The Parent Trap: Sang-soo Takes Sideways Swipe at Social...
2026 Berlin International Film Festival – Checklist of Our Coverage
IONCINEMA.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire...
Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird) | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Free Bird: Fitch & White Unveil Inventive, Personal Homage
Watching...
Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Celestial Orgy: Haroun Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts
Nestled deep...
A New Dawn | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Grave of the Fireworks: Shinomiya Finds All the Colors...
Interviews
Interview: Scandar Copti – A Childhood (Work in Progress)
Known for blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary,...
Interview: Akinola Davies Jr. – My Father’s Shadow
Before he began his maiden voyage into Cannes (being...
Interview: Hasan Hidi – The President’s Cake
Earlier this year, first-time filmmaker Hasan Hadi arrived in...
Interview: Óliver Laxe – Sirāt (2025 Marrakech International Film Festival)
Óliver Laxe has been on a whirlwind promotional tour...
Interview: Andy & Carolyn London – 1981 (Short Film) 2026 Sundance Film Festival
Set against the awkwardness of early adolescence, 8 minuter...
Audio Interview: Mascha Schilinski & Cinematographer Fabian Gamper – Sound of Falling
It’s only the second day of Cannes competition when...
Interview: Albert Birney – Obex (Work in Progress)
After popular (co-signed with Kentucker Audley) feature film projects...
IndieSponge Episode: 2025 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Predictions
And we are off to the races - the 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival begins today and as per tradition Kevin Jagernauth...
IndieSponge Episode: 2025 Venice Film Festival – Our Top 5 Most Anticipated!
It’s the fall film festival season folks! And the...
IndieSponge Episode: An Officer and a Spy (2025) Movie Review
As we slowly prepare for our official launch and...
IndieSponge Episode: Emmanuelle (2025) Movie Review
Before our official launch, Kevin Jagernauth and I had...
IndieSponge Episode: 2025 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or Predictions
Before our official June relaunch, Kevin Jagernauth and I...
IndieSponge Episode: 2025 Cannes Palme d’Or Competition Reactions
We haven't yet relaunched, but Kevin Jagernauth and I...
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...
For Your Consideration - Awards CoverageLatest
Pencils Down: Our 2026 Oscar Predictions!
After dazzling the critic elite at Telluride and cementing...
2026 César Awards: Carine Tardieu’s ‘The Ties That Binds Us’ Lands Best Film
It was a rare Thursday night ceremony for the...
You BETcha!: ‘Yellow Letters’, ‘Rose’ & ‘Queen at Sea’ are the Golden Bear Frontrunners
YouBETcha! is back, this time for our Berlinale edition,...
2026 Oscars: ‘Sinners’ Lands Most Noms, but ‘One Battle After Another’ & ‘Sentimental Value’ are the Frontrunners
It was a great morning for the folks at...
2026 Oscars: Trier, Filho, Panahi, Laxe & Hania Nominated for Best International Feature Film
The NEON folks have four Cannes competition film horses...
You BETcha!: ‘Josephine’, ‘Carousel’ & ‘Union County’ Are Top Contenders for Sundance’s U.S. Dramatic Comp Grand Jury Prize
This year’s Sundance YouBETcha!, where we guess the odds...
2026 Lumières Awards: François Ozon’s ‘The Stranger’ Sweeps “France’s Golden Globes” with Trio of Awards
Five weeks before the César Awards ceremony, we find...
2026 ICS: ‘One Battle After Another’ Finds the Rendezvous Point — Nabs Dozen Noms
Leading with a dozen noms, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One...
2026 European Film Awards: ‘Sentimental Value’ Wins Big while Laxe’s ‘Sirāt’ Nabs Five!
It was perhaps poetic justice for the "2nd place"...
American Indie Films NewsLatest
Condom Counterculture: Grace Van Patten Pilots Hanna Gray Organschi’s ‘Rubber Hut’
One of the rare Sundance Institute promoted projects that...
Fastvold Fast Track: Searchlight Clothed with ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Beneath Her Feet
After being in the awards conversation in previous years...
Beauty in the Breakdown: Sachs Directs Rami Malek & Rebecca Hall in 80s New York Musical ‘The Man I Love’
Coined as a "musical fantasia of a city under...
Hired Wheels: David Jonsson & Cooper Hoffman Drive India Donaldson’s ‘The Chaperones’
Last August we learned that India Donaldson plus A24...
World Cinema News
Itching for Istanbul: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Planning Summer 2026 Shoot
We are nearing the four-year gap between projects that...
Brutalist Trio Part of ‘Diamond Shitter’ Quartet as Andrea Riseborough & Guy Pearce Join
The Brutalist family reunion continues as Screen Daily reports...
For Better or Worse: Tessa Thompson Gets Hitched with Jonas Carpignano’s ‘A Separation’
For those who might not have caught wind of...
The Stranger: Àlex Lora Visits Collective Wounds in ‘The Fissure’
Spanish filmmaker Àlex Lora (winner of Sundance's Grand Jury...
Weekly & Monthly Features
