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DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Review: Bold and Brash
by admin|1 month ago|Screen Anarchy
Review by Jason Gorber. There will be plenty of hyperbole flung about in celebration of this film with the joy and abandon of an ape playfully lobbing his poop at an appreciative audience. Yet like the scatological simian show at...
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ROOFTOP FILMS 2024 LINEUP: See The Indie Hits Coming To NYC This Summer
by admin|1 month ago|Hammer to Nail
Do any New Yorkers have plans this summer? How about chilling under the sun to some of this year’s hot new indie films? Rooftop Films has just announced its lineup for its 2024 Summer Series, which will take place throughout...
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DARK MATTER Review: Of Twists, Turns, and Alternate Lives
by admin|1 month ago|Screen Anarchy
Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, and Jimmi Simpson star in Blake Crouch's mind-twisting series, debuting on Apple TV+. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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A Good Reason to Be a Coward: Jim Cummings on The Last Stop in Yuma County
by admin|1 month ago|Roger Ebert
The premise for Francis Gallupi’s directorial debut, “The Last Stop in Yuma County,” feels like it’s setting up a long-winded joke: a traveling knife salesman, two bank robbers, a traveling elderly couple, and two wannabe criminals walk into a diner...
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Harmony Korine Assaults the Senses In New Aggro Dr1ft Trailer
by admin|1 month ago|The Film Stage
After a contentious fall-festival run where people either had to declare Aggro Dr1ft the future of cinema or an abject embarrassment––I propose it’s sufficient to think “this looks neat” and find yourself chortling across 80 fleet-enough minutes––Korine’s EDGLRD is migrating from initial...
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A Conversation with Radu Jude (DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD)
by admin|1 month ago|Hammer to Nail
Radu Jude is a writer and director hailing from Romania. He attended the Media University of Bucharest. Soon after graduating, Radu worked as an assistant director on the 2002 film Amen and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu. From there Radu...
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FAMILY PORTRAIT Trailer: On the Precipice of Quiet Disaster
by admin|1 month ago|Screen Anarchy
Locarno might not be as well known to the general public as other European festivals, but their programming has been amazing for several years, leaning into the more experimental work of what might be called social realism, or documentary cinema...
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POOLMAN Review: Earnest Performances Almost Save a Misguided Comedy-Noir
by admin|1 month ago|Screen Anarchy
A few years ago, I was taking an Uber back to my airbnb in Los Angeles; the driver, it turns out, was something of a conspiracy theorist. At first he was just telling me about the politics of the city,...
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Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry Make a Eurotrip In Trailer for Treasure
by admin|1 month ago|The Film Stage
While we eagerly await Lena Dunham’s next full-on creative venture, she’s made the rare excursion into a lead role not written and directed by herself. Paired with Stephen Fry, she stars in Treasure, a road-trip dramedy from German filmmaker Julia...
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The Film Stage Show Ep. 536 – Challengers (with Scott Nye)
by admin|1 month ago|The Film Stage
Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Scott Nye to discuss Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by...
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