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Movie Reviews
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...
Roya | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
I Confess: Mohammadi's Myriad of Memory Celebrates Women of...
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
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"...
The Ten Golden Globes Narratives That Will Define the 2026 Oscars
Nomination ballots are being filled out today, and with...
American Indie Films NewsLatest
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...
‘Fleur’ Power: Ellie Foumbi Directs Halle Berry as Parisian Dominatrix
Some cool news for a filmmaker who cut her...
World Cinema News
Aristobrats: Alice Rohrwacher Lands Josh O’Connor, Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan & Jessie Buckley for ‘Three Incestuous Sisters’
Major world cinema news lands on a Friday afternoon:...
Exclusive Clip: Disappearing Behind the Scenes in Marcelo Martinessi’s ‘Narciso’ – 2026 Berlinale
After competing for the Golden Bear back in 2018...
Exclusive Clip: The Harvest of a Relationship in Ian de la Rosa’s ‘Iván & Hadoum’ – 2026 Berlinale
Spanish filmmaker Ian de la Rosa makes his big...
More Violence: Michel Franco’s ‘Circles’ Getting Ready for Cannes 2026?
Screen have put together 75 titles (many of which...
Weekly & Monthly Features
