Tag: top-stories
One Minute to Midnight (Un peu avant minuit) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Man Who Snubbed Women: Pariser Performs a Patriarchal Audit
There’s something that feels a bit ‘too little, too late’ in Nicolas Pariser’s latest film...
NAZA | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Destroy Everything You Touch: Abraham & Szor Explore the Cogs of the Palestinian Genocide
Investigative journalists and documentarians Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham follow up...
The Fire Within You (Il fuoco che ti porti dentro) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Shrill Seekers: De Angelis Turns to Comedic Caricature
For his latest venture, The Fire Within You, Edoardo De Angelis seems to be employing the...
A Good Little Soldier (Un bon petit soldat) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
A HR Manager Never Cries: Brize Takes on Executive Hypocrisy
When he’s not exploring intimate relationship melodramas, French director Stéphane Brizé has been one of...
DAU | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Darkness Visible: Khrzhanovsky Reformulates Saga of Shattered Scientists
If ex-Attorney General and fascist sentinel Pam Bondi was ever credited as uttering anything worth repeating, it...
Company | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Let the White One In: Affleck Can’t Satisfy the Hunger
Like many actors who doggedly pursue a parallel career as film directors, Casey Affleck manages...
Bunker | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Atlas Dug: Zeller Teases the Comedy of Obligation
It’s become increasingly clear celebrated writer Florian Zeller has a difficult time killing his darlings when it...
2026 TIFF Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet for Ghasideh Golmakani’s ‘Head to Head’ (Discovery Programme)
Among the directorial debuts loading up this year’s Discovery programme at this year's Toronto Intl. Film Festival we find the boldly titled Head to...
The Spiral (L’Estranea) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Devil is a Woman: Strippoli Concocts an Elegant Parent Trap
As far as horrific moral fables about Catholic guilt and resisting temptation go, director...
Look Back | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Broken Heart Art: Kore-eda Builds Bittersweet Elegy to Friendship
Art is both the impetus for destruction and creation in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest, Look Back, a...
London | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Magnificent Obsession: Di Marco & Picoli Patrol the Poison of Perfection
Our conditioned notions regarding beauty standards maintains our insidious and unhealthy fixation with obtaining...
Agata the Writer | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Blindness of Strangers: Dorabialski Stings the Storyteller
“In the end, we’ll all become stories,” per Margaret Atwood, a sentiment which is ultimately at the...
Woman Unknown | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Penile Code: el-Toukhy Explores the Gendered Paradox of Liberation
Something is certainly rotten in the state of Denmark following the country’s liberation from Nazi...
The Echo Chamber | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
An Affair to Disremember: Pallaoro Explores the Unbearable Bleakness of Being
Love is hardly a many-splendored thing in The Echo Chamber, the fourth feature directed...
Oase (Oasis) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Child Inside: Lenz Explores the Virtues of Violence
For his narrative feature debut Oasis, Jannis Lenz channels contemporary intergenerational neglect and the inherent apathy...
Possible Love | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Blue is the Warmest Collar: Chang-dong Prepares a Touch of Class
Boiled down to its core essence, Possible Love, the first feature from South Korean...
It Will Happen Tonight (Succederà questa notte) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Birds, the Bees and the (Displaced) Italians: Moretti Tries Amour For
In the latter half of his career, revered Italian director Nanni Moretti has...
Primetime | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Catcher in the Sty: Oppenheim Skewers Hack Journalist
It’s perhaps fortuitous for Lance Oppenheim’s narrative debut Primetime, which charts the brief but meteoric run...
Un détour par Diane | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Even Cowgirls Gets the Clues: Sirot/Balboni Rewrite the Past...in the Future
Belgium tandem Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni take the machinery of the western —...
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
How Awful About Allen: Tsukamoto Continues Charting Casualties of War
“Ain’t war hell?,” asks the door gunner to Matthew Modine’s protagonist in Stanley Kubrick’s Full...
The City of the Living | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Autopsy Audit: Gabbriellini Examines the Choices Before the Mistakes
Those left behind to pick up the pieces are rarely the center of film dramas —...
A Place To Heal (15/18) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Teenage Wasteland: Kahn Gets Clinical with Familiar Procedural
Picture this: A bustling medical ward in a top performing French facility with specialized treatment protocols where...
House of the Wind (La maison du vent) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
If You Build It, They Won't Come: Yanghu Offers Alternate Version to Home Improvement
Working through migration, isolation and the complicated meaning of home, Auguste...
2026 Venice Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet & Clips for Sebastián Múnera’s Meteorito
The violence of Colombia’s past has been repackaged as entertainment, commerce and everyday life, but it hasn't disappeared. Violence that lingers beneath the surface....
Wild Horse Nine | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
They Shoot Agents, Don’t They?: McDonagh Morosely Reflects a Pernicious Empire
Americans can’t quite seem to directly engage with their ills of the present by...
Bucking Fastard | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Sisters Doing It For Themselves: Herzog Returns with Theater of the Bizarre
Until quite recently, it was a foregone conclusion legendary director Werner Herzog would...
2026 Venice Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet & Clip for Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu’s House of the Wind (La maison du vent)
Working with themes of migration, loneliness, abandonment and the need for connection, among the feature debuts programmed in this year's Orizzonti competition line-up we...
Ink | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Sun Also Rises: Boyle Explores the Origins of Media Sensationalism
If, as Alan Moore posits, “It is the job of the artists to give...
The Girl with the Leica | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Coupins D’abord: Marazzi Documents Love in Times of Capa
Dually exploring the construction of an image and of a brand, the story of Gerda Taro...
Central Park Deprive: Janicza Bravo to Direct True Crime Media Frenzied ‘Preppy’
Known for her discomfort and absurdity brand of comedy, we thought that Janicza Bravo might be moving into the kitchen for the Martha Stewart...
Back in the Summer of ’69: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic to Direct Todd Field Penned ‘The Girls’
Last week we learned that Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic was finally moving onto her next project landing a series scheduled for next year, however, if...
Jouhatsu Junction: Humanist Vampire… Helmer Ariane Louis-Seize Picking ‘Cherry Blossoms’
Telefilm Canada have put some sizeable coin towards a quartet of projects and among them we find Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person filmmaker...
2027 Oscars: Japan (not France) Submits Hamaguchi’s ‘All of a Sudden’ in International Feature Race
Canada submits Berlinale winner Nina Roza by Geneviève Dulude-de Celles, Chile submits Un Certain Regard selected The Meltdown (to be launched by Kino Lorber),...
2027 Oscars: ‘Everytime’, ‘Coward’ & ‘Possible Loves’ Enter International Feature Oscar Race
The International Feature Film category is only beginning to heat up and we've already got some banger titles. Earlier this morning we had Belgium...
Park Ji-Min Joins Théodore Pellerin in Philippe Lesage’s ‘I Just Want a Great Love Story’
Production has begun on Philippe Lesage's highly anticipated I Just Want a Great Love Story, with a key change to the film’s original quartet....
2026 Venice: Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor’s Secret Docu ‘NAZA’ Added to the Golden Lion Competition
“Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in...
How to Divorce During the War | Review
Invisible Missiles: Blaževičius Offers Chilly Portrayal of a Couple & Country in Crisis
Given its title, Andrius Blaževičius’ third outing, How to Divorce During the...
2027 Oscars: Austria Backs Hüller as ‘Rose’ in the Best Intl. Feature Film Category
Austria were in a bit of a pickle situation with three potential frontrunners for the 2027 Oscar race. They had Cannes competition item Gentle...
2026 NYFF: Carlos Reygadas’ ‘Heil Jupiter!’ to World Premiere in Currents
At long last we found a home (the New York Film Fest's Currents section) for Carlos Reygadas' latest work (formerly titled Wake of Umbra)...
Train to Busan | Review
Here Comes the Train Again: Sang-ho’s Live Action Debut Heavy on Tropes
Zombie contagion sweeps over South Korea while a random band of survivors struggle...
2026 TIFF: World Preems for Bahman Ghobadi & Cody Fern, ‘Bucking Fastard’ Hits All 4 Fall Fests
The final titles have trickled in for the 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival and we can now confirm what are Telluride updates, and the...
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma | Review
The Story of O: Schoenbrun Approaches the Horrific Desire Inside Us All
The inextricable union of victim, victimizer, and witness becomes a metatextual balancing act...
‘Neon Bull’ & ‘The Blue Trail’ Gabriel Mascaro Launches Production Company
In a rather lengthy profile piece we learnt that fresh from his brilliant Berlinale winner The Blue Trail (read review), Gabriel Mascaro is opening...
2026 TIFF: Paolo Strippoli, Anna Biller, Matthew Rankin & Eugene Kotlyarenko in Midnight Madness Section
Last year, the Midnight Madness section received one heck of a thumbs up with Obsession landing a massive distribution deal. This edition, programmer Peter...
2026 TIFF: Yung Chang, Shaunak Sen & Zarrar Kahn in Short Cuts Competition
Leaning heavily on world premieres, TIFF's 2026 Short Cuts programme welcomes back familiar names such as Yung Chang, Shaunak Sen and Zarrar Kahn while...
