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Blackout
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
If actors often make for compelling directors, then why not character actors? Larry Fessenden (“Depraved”) is a great That Guy character actor, and his work stands out in a range of genre movies, mostly horror. Fessenden’s also the producer and...
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Little Wing
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
The work of journalist Susan Orlean has been adapted to the big screen a few times, most notably in 2002 by herself for the Oscar-nominated rumination on the nature of writing itself "Adaptation." But even the girl power surfing film...
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s Next Film Sets August 2025 Release, Including IMAX Theaters
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
Across his nine features thus far, Paul Thomas Anderson has never had a prime summer release, but that is about to change when it comes to his currently untitled, maybe Vineland tenth feature. With production still underway across California with...
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SXSW Review: Ghostlight is a Profound, Nuanced, and Humorous Drama About Unimaginable Grief
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
A masterfully crafted work with nearly no false notes, Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson’s Ghostlight is a tender drama bearing profound moments of humor and small triumphs. The smartly constructed script by O’Sullivan buries the lede, revealing new narrative information...
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Watch a Two-Hour Conversation with Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Greta Gerwig, Yorgos Lanthimos & Alexander Payne
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
The Oscars may have concluded, but there’s one more piece of the awards season worth checking out before we fully move on to 2024 in cinema. A welcome annual tradition, the Directors Guild of America gathered their nominees for Outstanding...
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SXSW 2024 Review: BIRDEATER, This Vivisection Of A Toxic Relationship Will Make You Squirm
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
An Australian stag party goes off the rails when the details of the happy couple's relationship get spilled during a night of heavy drinking and drugs in Jack Clark & Jim Weir's Birdeater, making its international debut at this year's...
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SXSW 2024 Review: SEW TORN, An Enchantingly Whimsical Rube Goldberg Action Thriller
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
A struggling seamstress plays a dangerous real life choose-your-own-adventure game in Freddy Macdonald’s debut feature, the whimsical comedic thriller Sew Torn. Barbara Duggen’s (Eve Connolly) sewing shop in an idyllic hamlet in the picturesque Swiss Alps is on the rocks....
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THE LAST DRIVE-IN WITH JOE BOB BRIGGS: Season Six Kicks Off With a Tribute to Roger Corman on Friday, March 15
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
The Last Drive-In, a fan favorite of Shudder subscribers is returning for a sixth season. The season kicks off with a special recorded live from Las Vegas, The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman.   Joe Bob Briggs pays...
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SXSW 2024 Review: MONKEY MAN, Dev Patel Is Your New Action Obsession. Get Excited
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
After sitting in the can for nearly four years, Dev Patel’s directorial debut, Monkey Man, was presented to a rapturous audience at SXSW last night. The film declaring loudly what the man himself was too humble to acknowledge; Dev Patel...
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The Shadowless Tower | Review
by admin|3 months ago|Ioncinema
The Polite Stuff: Lu Searches for Redemption Through the Walking & Talking Cure In the strangely alluring The Shadowless Tower, (Bai Ta Zhi Guang) the fourteenth feature from Korean-Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lü, a handful of characters search for a more...
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