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A Conversation with Gloria Mercer (A SAFE DISTANCE)
by admin|2 months ago|Hammer to Nail
The debut feature from screenwriter Aidan West and director Gloria Mercer, A Safe Distance just premiered at the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival (where I reviewed it). In the movie, we follow the increasingly wild adventures of a young...
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‘Slanted’ Review: Amy Wang’s Skin-Deep Satire About a High School Girl’s Race to Be White
by admin|2 months ago|Slant Magazine
The nightmare of assimilation that Slanted imagines feels single-minded. The post ‘Slanted’ Review: Amy Wang’s Skin-Deep Satire About a High School Girl’s Race to Be White appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Praise (May)Be: The Stale World Building Of “The Testaments” Doesn’t Fully Diminish Chase Infiniti’s Ability To Shine
by admin|2 months ago|Next Best Picture
THE STORY – A new generation of young women in Gilead grapples with the bleak future that awaits them. THE CAST – Chase Infiniti, Rowan Blanchard, Lucy Halliday, Ann Dowd, Mattea Conforti, Isolde Ardies, Mabel Li & Birva Pandya THE...
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Exclusive: Cinema Guild Acquires the Films of Margarida Cordeiro and António Reis
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
Continuing their major streak of acquiring filmographies only seen through super-rare repertory bookings and sub-par DVD rips, Cinema Guild—we are pleased to exclusively reveal—will release the work of Portuguese directors António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro. The deal includes their three...
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2026 Le Groupe Ouest Selections: New Features by Laura Wandel, Valéry Carnoy & Léa Todorov in the Works
by admin|2 months ago|Ioncinema
Located in France’s north westernmost region of Brittany, Le Groupe Ouest have selected eight projects (ten participants) with notable Belgian filmmakers Laura Wandel and Valéry Carnoy among the selected folks. Heading to one of the world’s top screenwriting labs, Wandel...
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Isabelle Huppert on Becoming a Vampire, Ulrike Ottinger’s Timeless Touch, and Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales
by admin|2 months ago|The Film Stage
Isabelle Huppert’s performance in Ulrike Ottinger’s The Blood Countess, a vampire fantasia set in Vienna (and co-starring no less of a local icon than Conchita Wurst) that marks the 158th credit of her remarkable career, got me thinking. Sitting face...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – “The Drama”
by admin|2 months ago|Next Best Picture
For this week’s second podcast review, Ema Sasic, Dan Bayer, Lauren LaMagna, and Larry Fried join me to discuss Kristoffer Borgli’s “The Drama” starring Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Alana Haim, Mamoudou Athie, Zoë Winters & Hailey Benton Gates. The dark romantic comedy follows a happily engaged couple who...
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GEMS Vancouver Announces 2026 Genre Film Lab Teams
by admin|2 months ago|Screen Anarchy
GEMS (Gender Equity in Media Society) has announced the five feature film projects from female and gender-diverse filmmakers from across Canada that will participate in this year's The Genre Film Lab 2026.    The accelerator program takes projects that are...
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The Academy Sets Dates For The 99th And 100th Oscar Ceremonies
by admin|2 months ago|Next Best Picture
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC today announced the 99th Oscars will take place on Sunday, March 14th, 2027, and the 100th Oscars will take place on Sunday, March 5th, 2028. The shows will air live at 7 p.m. ET / 4...
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ALIEN: EARTH’s Noah Hawley to Direct Remake of Demián Rugna’s TERRIFIED
by admin|2 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Well, well, well. THR is reporting that Noah Hawley is set to remake Atterados (Terrified) the Argentine supernatural spectacular that introduced the world to writer-director Demián Rugna.    One of the best supernatural horror flicks to come from the LatAm...
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