Tag: top-stories
2025 Sundance: Mary Bronstein, Amalia Ulman, Bryn Chainey, Hailey Gates & Eva Victor in our Top 5 Most Anticipated
We’re just moments away from the 41st edition of the Sundance Film Festival. This marks our 18th time attending the iconic American indie supply...
2025 Berlinale: Linklater, Hadžihalilović, Sangsoo, Gabriel Mascaro, Michel Franco, Vivian Qu & Mary Bronstein in Comp
Nineteen features in competition, Artistic Director Tricia Tuttle loaded up on some mainstay auteurs with the likes of Richard Linklater, Michel Franco, Hong Sangsoo,...
I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui) | Review
Still Missing: Salles Returns with Survivors of the Dictatorship
“The dictatorship’s mistakes was to torture but not kill,” former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro proudly claimed...
2025 January Screenwriters Lab: Lana Wilson, Diffan Sina Norman & Alexandra Qin Among Fellows
A pair of filmmakers who we thought struck gold with their Sundance shorts last year (read our top ten short film best of fest...
The Substance | Review
Woman of Substance: Fargeat Rejuvenates Body Horror with Pulpy Parable
To borrow a succinct phrase from Beyonce, ‘pretty hurts,’ a sentiment quivering through Coraline Fargeat’s...
Joy Division: Camille Razat, Elsa Zylberstein & Lyna Khoudri Topline Mounia Meddour’s Drama Romance
After her break-out female empowerment portraits in the Cannes Un Certain Regard selected Papicha (2019) and Houria (2022), Franco-Algerian filmmaker Mounia Meddour is moving...
2025 Berlinale: Jeanette Nordahl, Anna Muylaert, Amalia Ulman & Fernando Eimbcke Join Line-ups
Days before we find out who'll compete for the Golden Bear, we've got programmes such as Panorama and Berlinale Special that have been filled-up....
Sexual Misorientation: Hamaguchi Prepping Paris-Shoot ‘Our Apprenticeship’
Back in May we had learned that Ryusuke Hamaguchi was revisiting with a feature film project that would bring us to Paris and it...
A Different Land: Renate Reinsve & Sebastian Stan Re-team for Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Fjord’
A Different Man pairing of Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan will resurface once again for 2026 with Romanian master filmmaker Cristian Mungiu moving over...
Snowed In: Quentin Dupieux Enlists Exarchopoulos, Leklou & Kiberlain for ‘L’Accident de piano’
Quentin Dupieux had enlisted alumni Adèle Exarchopoulos and then add-ons Sandrine Kiberlain and Karim Leklou for L'Accident de piano (formerly L'Avant-dernière séance). As per...
Je danse le mia: How to Have Sex Actress to Topline Claire Denis’ ‘Le Cri Des Gardes’
Mia McKenna-Bruce, the face of Molly Manning Walker's Un Certain Regard section winning How to Have Sex will take over some big shoes in...
2025 Sundance: Celine Song, Daniel Kaluuya, Kevin Macdonald & Elijah Wood Among Jury Folks
Lots of Sundance alumni will be trekking back to Park City next week with the likes of Past Song's Celine Song, Daniel Kaluuya, Kevin...
Interview: Nora El Hourch – HLM Pussy (Sisterhood)
Selected for TIFF's Platform section (Toronto's only competition section), French-born filmmaker Nora El Hourch pulled from some of her own narrative for her high...
Sisterhood (HLM Pussy) | Review
Nora El Hourch’s Fiery Sisterhood is La Haine for the #MeToo Generation
Arriving like a molotov cocktail thrown through a plate glass window — or...
2025 Berlinale: Park Chan-wook, Justine Triet and Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel in Berlinale Shorts
Berlinale alumni in Park Chan-wook, Justine Triet and the Eat The Night tandem of Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel have been selected to present...
Thrice as Nice: Kapadia’s ‘All We Imagine as Light’ is Part of Mumbai Trilogy
We got a quick blurb update from the folks at Variety: After campaigning since Cannes, Payal Kapadia has offered a glimpse into the near...
What’s in Store for 2026?: Élie Wajeman’s ‘Le joueur’ & Valérie Donzelli’s ‘À pied d’œuvre’
The Cineuropa folks have unveiled the latest round of CNC’s advance on receipts projects (eleven in total) and at the top of the list...
Eat the Night | Review
The Sway of the Sword: Reality Bytes in Poggi/Vinel's Bleak Online/Offline Portrait
Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel's sophomore feature outing pulses with the heartbeat of...
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, Emilia Pérez stole the spotlight from Anora, sweeping four awards including Zoe Saldaña receiving the...
Vincent Le Port’s ‘Hautefaye’ & Kornél Mundruczó’s ‘The Revolution According to Kamo’ Receive ARTE France Coin
French filmmaker Vincent Le Port and Hungarian helmer Kornél Mundruczó are receiving some ARTE France Cinéma coin for future projets that are being readied...
Pepe | Review
Cocaine Hippo: de Los Santos Arias Explores an Assassination
To say Pepe, the second narrative feature from Dominican director Nelson Carlos de Los Santos Arias,...
Interview: Producer Ryan Martin Brown – The Scout (Work in Progress)
While countless films have delved into filmmaking, viewing it through the unique lens of a location scout (played by Mimi Davila) we get a...
Interview: Joseph Marconi – Baby Love (Work in Progress)
Through the lens of an MMA fighter grappling with an uphill battle for survival, Joseph Marconi’s Baby Love explores how self-harm can unexpectedly lead...
Interview: Sabrina Greco – Lockjaw (Work in Progress)
Every so often, cinema offers a glimpse into the experience of living with a speech impediment—one of my favorite portrayals being the chaotic struggle...
Interview: Miles Levin – Under the Lights (Work in Progress)
Having tackled the stigmatization of epilepsy in cinema in the short form with a proof of concept film back in 2020, filmmaker Miles Levin...
Nosferatu (2024) | Review
Basic Instincts: Eggers Taps Into the Bloodlust with Vampy Remake
It would seem there’s no one more fitting than Robert Eggers to mount a remake...
Vermiglio | Review
Baby Machines: Delpero Designs Tapestry of Women’s Miseries During WWII Italy
Despite the associations suggested by its title, Maura Delpero’s sophomore film Vermiglio is a...
Babygirl | Review
Fuck Like No One’s Watching: Reijn Delivers Prudent & Provocative Sexual Odyssey
“There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had...
One Question: Gints Zilbalodis – Flow
In Gints Zilbalodis' Cannes Un Certain Regard selected animated film Flow, a diverse group of animals bands together to navigate a post-apocalyptic on....a boat....
One Question: Adrien Brody & Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
While liberty and independence are related concepts, they differ in key ways: liberty is about being free from oppressive restrictions, while independence focuses on...
The Brutalist | Review
The Safety of Objectivism: Corbet Unleashes the Survival Instinct of Rational Egoism
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided...
One Question: Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
In Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, László Tóth (Adrien Brody) strives to rebuild his life, but fragments of his past continue to haunt him. However,...
The Room Next Door | Review
Triumph of the Will: Almodovar’s Muy Excelente English Debut
“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems,” wrote Virginia Woolf in...
2025 Oscars: Sundance’s Daughters, Porcelain War, Sugarcane & Berlinale’s Dahomey & No Other Land in Docu Mix
Documentary film items from this past Sundance in Black Box Diaries, Daughters, Frida, Porcelain War, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, Soundtrack to a Coup...
2025 Oscars: ‘A Crab in the Pool,’ ‘The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent,’ and ‘The Masterpiece’ Shortlisted
Among the hundreds of short films in contention in the three categories of Animation, Live Action and Documentary we find some of our favorites...
2025 Oscars: ‘Universal Language’, ‘From Ground Zero’ & ‘Touch’ Join Heavy Favorites on Shortlist
As is the case every year out, films that had a legit chance of joining the shortlist pack of fifteen in Austria's The Devil's...
2025 Sundance: Jianjie Lin, Jorge Thielen Armand & Robert Machoian/Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck Among Selected Shorts
57 films selected from a whopping 11,153 submissions (4,909 U.S. submissions and 6,244 international) packed into eight curated Short Film Programs. Among the more...
Interview: Andrew Garfield – 2024 Red Sea International Film Festival
The perfect relationship gets put to the ultimate test in We Live In Time, the latest feature from Brooklyn director John Crowley. Told across...
Interview: Denise Fernandes – Hanami (Red Sea Intl. Film Festival)
Threading the line between magical realism and potent coming-of-age drama, Denise Fernandes' Hanami is an ambitious debut feature. Filming on location in Cape Verde,...
Nickel Boys | Review
No Country for Black Men: Ross Reforms the Cinema with Distinctive Adaptation
In many ways, Nickel Boys, the narrative debut from director RaMell Ross,...
Interview: Xiaoxuan Jiang – To Kill a Mongolian Horse (Red Sea Intl. Film Festival)
Across the Mongolian steppe, a herdsman confronts climate change, the slow encroachment of gentrification, and a fading way of life in To Kill A...
Kraven the Hunter | Review
Snack Attack: Kraven The Hunter Is More Empty Calorie Superhero Slop
The existential fear among creatives is that one day, artificial intelligence will become so...
2025 Sundance: Hailey Gates, Katarina Zhu & Eva Victor in U.S. Dramatic Comp
Among the batch of ten 2025 U.S. Dramatic Competition offerings we find the likes of actress Hailey Gates' feature debut Atropia - produced by...
2025 Sundance: Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Masterwork ‘April’ Selected for Spotlight Section
With only two films selections it looks like Sundance's Spotlight section is about to be snuffed out but among the pair of films programmed...
2025 Sundance: Laura Casabé, Flora Lau, Vladimir de Fontenay & Chloé Robichaud in World Cinema Dramatic Comp
The long-awaited film by Flora Lau (LUX), Chloé Robichaud's take on a Quebec classic (1970's Deux Femmes en or) in Two Women, Vladimir de...
2025 Sundance: Cherien Dabis, Mary Bronstein, Amalia Ulman, Clint Bentley, Ira Sachs & Bill Condon in Premieres Section
On paper, this year's Premieres section offerings (fiction and non-fiction) should be all the hyope and talked about well into awards season. Some of...
2025 Sundance: Grace Glowicki, Meera Menon & Bryn Chainey Projects in the Midnight Section
Long-time indie actress Grace Glowicki, Sundance alumni in Meera Menon (2016's Equity) and Bryn Chainey are among the seven film projects selected for the...
2025 Sundance: Kahlil Joseph, Amanda Kramer & Albert Birney in Next Section
Always our go-to section for truly unique singular voices working in micro cinema, Kahlil Joseph (a major music video filmmaker who needs no introduction)...
2025 Sundance: U.S. & World Documentary Competition
The U.S. Documentary Competition consistently showcases some of the most talked-about documentaries of the year. Year after year, it delivers at least a quartet...
Seeking Haven For Mr. Rambo | 2024 Red Sea Intl. Film Festival Review
First Blood: Khaled Mansour’s Debut Follows A Man Ready To Fight For The Fate Of His Dog
In First Blood, John Rambo is a quiet...
