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“Cinema Could Be Grander”: Nickel Boys Director RaMell Ross on Perspectives, Contradictions, and True Intimacy
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Nickel Boys is the film of 2024. It’s expansive yet accessible. It’s violent yet pierced with seconds of warmth. It’s an adaptation that expands Colson Whitehead’s novel, a visual experience that hedges on the audience’s openness, on a person’s willingness...
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Blake Simons’ Top 10 Films of 2024
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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. 2024 saw the flicker of a major flame in the strands of cinema that have my heart...
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Radu Jude Reveals First Look at Next Two Features Dracula and Continental ’25
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After a major 2024 with the wider release of his blistering satire Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (which nabbed a spot in our top 10) and the premiere of a pair of smaller-scale, experimental...
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2025 DGA Award Noms: Jacques Audiard, Sean Baker & Brady Corbet Jockey for Gold
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It’ll be non fisticuffs round between Jacques Audiard, Sean Baker and Brady Corbet. and it’s worth mentioning the Oscars aren’t too far behind. The Directors Guild of America (DGA) nominations are out and among the group of five we also...
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SNIPER: THE LAST STAND Trailer: The Eleventh Installment of The Sharpshooting Franchise is Coming
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I'm doing this for nostalgia's sake, cause over thirty years I watched the very first Sniper movie with Tom Berenger and Billy Zane and was completely in love with it. Before there was airsoft there was paintball and I'd organize...
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What’s in Store for 2026?: Élie Wajeman’s ‘Le joueur’ & Valérie Donzelli’s ‘À pied d’œuvre’
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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 we find the likes of Élie Wajeman, Valérie Donzelli and sophomore features by the next wave...
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The Greatest Film of All-Time Returns to Theaters with 50th Anniversary Trailer for Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman
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Canonized two years ago as the greatest film of all time, topping Sight and Sound’s once-every-decade poll, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles now celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, originally premiering at Directors’ Fortnight at...
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HUNTING DAZE: New Trailer For Quebecois Thriller’s U.S. Release
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Nina, a tempestuous young woman, joins a group of hunters in a remote cabin. A mysterious stranger's arrival disrupts her newfound place in their male micro-society.   Annick Blanc's Quebecois thriller, Hunting Daze, will have its U.S. release next week...
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DARK MATCH: Watch The New Trailer For Lowell Dean’s Wrestling Horror Comedy
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A small-time wrestling company accepts a well-paying gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match.   Lowell Dean's wrestling horror comedy, Dark...
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IN THE LOST LANDS Trailer: Dave Bautista And Milla Jovovich Star in Paul W.S. Anderson’s Apocalyptic Actioner
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Paul W.S. Anderson looks to put in his best attempt at copying the Snyder-verse in an adaptation of the short story, In The Lost Lands, by Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin.    The official trailer and poster have...
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