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The Red Carpets of the 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival
by admin|1 month ago|Roger Ebert
What makes the Chicago Critics Film Festival so special (besides the fact that it’s the only festival curated by critics) is that it truly is a love letter to Chicagoan cinephiles.  This year’s festival featured its strongest line-up to date,...
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NEW STRAINS Trailer & Poster: The Couple Stuck Together During A Lockdown While on Vacation, Stays Together?
by admin|1 month ago|Screen Anarchy
No doubt there were many couples, in the early days of their relationship, who found that relationship tested in a more unusual way, by the pandemic lockdown of these past few years. Some might have flourished; others survived a little...
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The Film Stage Show Ep. 538 – I Saw the TV Glow (with Katie Rife)
by admin|1 month ago|The Film Stage
Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr discuss Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow with special guest Katie Rife. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support...
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First Teaser and Poster for Karim Aïnouz’s Cannes Premiere Motel Destino
by admin|1 month ago|The Film Stage
With Cannes Film Festival now officially underway and reviews coming in, we’re also getting new looks at some of our most-anticipated premieres. The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão director Karim Aïnouz returns to the festival, just one year after the...
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55: Scott Free Productions to Produce, FilmSharks to Handle International Sales of Shyam Madiraju Thriller
by admin|1 month ago|Screen Anarchy
Scott Free Productions and FilmSharks are partnering for a Indian-American co-production, the thriller 55. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Fated for All: Romanclusivity Captures Our Hearts in Bridgerton and Beyond
by admin|1 month ago|Roger Ebert
An epiphany can strike like an astronomical event, the way love is like the birth of a star. My latest ah-ha moment arrived with the total eclipse of the sun. I’d been pondering romance. Not any old love, but the...
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Simon of the Mountain | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
The Face of An(other): Luis Complicates Identity Politics Although it’s playing quite purposefully with various ambiguities and motifs, Federico Luis’ directorial debut Simon de la montaña (Simon of the Mountain) is most successful at obscuring the usual cliches of identity...
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IF
by admin|1 month ago|Roger Ebert
If you're lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski's new film, "IF," you may be greeted with a short introduction by the writer/director, asserting that the film is expressly for all the "girl dads" out there. Having...
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Cannes Review: Ghost Trail is an Engrossing Surveillance Thriller Haunted by the Syrian War 
by admin|1 month ago|The Film Stage
The wars in Gaza and Ukraine have dominated headlines for the past several years, yet receiving relatively little coverage today is the Syrian civil war, sparked in the wake of 2011’s Arab Spring. It is yet ongoing and stands now...
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Cannes Review: Quentin Dupieux Brings Gallows Humor to Filmmaking Satire The Second Act
by admin|1 month ago|The Film Stage
Quentin Dupieux returns with The Second Act, a playfully dour satire on the film industry that sees the French absurdist delve further into the apocalyptic mood and gallows humor of his recent Yannick. The Cannes opener stars some of the...
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