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The Son | Review

The Tragedy of Privilege: Zeller’s Familial Identity Trilogy Continues with Maudlin Chapter The highly revered and internationally renowned playwright Florian Zeller has a formidable talent...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #29. Florian Zeller’s The Son

The Son Human Swiss army knife novelist, playwright, theatre director, screenwriter and director hit pay dirt with his directorial debut The Father (review). Among the...

Bad Education | Review

A Touch of Class: Finley Explores Famed Embezzlement Scandal Director Cory Finley revisits one of the education system’s most notorious scandals in Bad Education, an...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #17. Cory Finley’s Bad Education

Bad Education Moving from a brilliant dark comedy (Thoroughbreds) off campus mind-games to shark infested waters of the high school experience, for Cory Finley's sophomore...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #91. Jason Reitman’s The Front Runner

The Front Runner With Tully dropping on April 20th, we look towards Jason Reitman's eight feature film as salient, dramatical potent  possible second 2018 offering...

Chappie | Review

iRobot: Blomkamp’s Latest Sentimentally Inclined Sci-Fi is Pleasantly Familiar Sentient technological constructs and expanding the definition of what constitutes the essence of consciousness as it...

Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #2. Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie

Chappie Director: Neill Blomkamp // Writers: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell After the unprecedented success of his debut, District 9 (2009), South African director Neill Blomkamp thankfully...

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...