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Most People Die on Sundays | Review

A Month of Sundays: Said Squeezes Magic Out of...

The Scary House | 2025 Udine Far East Film Festival Review

Watanabe Smarter Than Ghosts, but The Scary House Had...

April | Review

A Vindicated Woman: Kulumbegashvili Constructs Potent, Profound Study in...

The Shrouds | Review

Death Be Not Shroud: Cronenberg Hits Dead Ends in...

A Traveler’s Needs | Review

The Traveler Has Come: Huppert Shines in Latest Collaboration...

Grand Tour | Review

Runaway Groom: Gomes Charts a Barren Odyssey In what...

Holy Cow | Review

Smells Like Entrepreneurial Spirit!: Courvoisier Climbs Up the Totone...

Being Maria | Review

Forever Noor: Palud’s Schneider Moves From Being a Passenger...

Interviews

Interview: Dea Kulumbegashvili – April

After making its debut at the Venice Film Festival...

Interview: Haley Elizabeth Anderson – Tendaberry

Tucked away in the NEXT section at this year's...

Interview: Producer Carlos Zozaya – Tendaberry

With a resume that began as a Script Supervisor...

Interview: Philippe Lesage – Comme le feu (Who By Fire)

The adults in the room may be battling for...

Interview: Cutter Hodierne – Cold Wallet

He wasn't the first and certainly will not be...

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...

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 7 – The Latest on Lanthimos, Zagar, Soderbergh, Chan-Wook & David Robert Mitchell

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...

IONCINEMA.com introduces… IndieSponge

While it isn't business as usual in the film...

For Your Consideration - Awards Coverage
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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,...

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 News
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Film Festival News

Exclusive Clip: Comfort with Comfort Food in Constance Tsang’s “Blue Sun Palace”

Winner of the French Touch Prize in the Critics'...

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...

World Cinema News

Puissant Paris: Huppert, Efira, Cassel, Niney & Adam Bessa Topline Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’

Megawatt quintet Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre...

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...

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...