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by admin|2 years ago23 February 2024|Ioncinema

To Sir, With Ego: Ceylan Waltzes with Narcissism in Captivating Character Study The filmography of Nuri Bilge Ceylan is characterized by complex examinations of human nature, stretched across scenarios which have only become more dense over the past two decades....

Io Capitano | Review

by admin|2 years ago23 February 2024|Ioncinema

Journey to Italy: Garrone Details Arduous Migrant Odyssey It might be a rite of passage for contemporary Italian auteurs to examine the grueling adversity faced by migrants considering the ongoing crisis which began a decade ago, as timely a cinematic...

CAMP PLEASANT LAKE Review: A Crazed Jonathan Lipnicki Headlines This Summer Camp Slasher

by admin|2 years ago23 February 2024|Screen Anarchy

A bunch of horror LARPers meet grisly ends in the micro-budget summer camp slasher, Camp Pleasant Lake. Boasting a small selection of familiar faces from genre cinema and a mystifying lead performance from Jerry Maguire’s Jonathan Lipnicki, who hams it...

The Enduring Laughs—and Life—of Harold Ramis

by admin|2 years ago23 February 2024|Roger Ebert

My late husband Roger Ebert noted potential in Harold Ramis from the moment he awarded four stars to the first film that the "SCTV" star co-wrote, 1978's hit comedy, "National Lampoon's Animal House." "The movie is vulgar, raunchy, ribald, and occasionally scatological,"...

Friday One Sheet: SEAGRASS

by admin|2 years ago23 February 2024|Screen Anarchy

A Japanese-Canadian woman grapples with the death of her mother as she brings her family to a remote British Colombian island in Meredith Hama-Brown's Seagrass. This distressed, lonely key art, with its almost letterhead typography and design at the top makes...

DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS Review: Dykes on the Run

by admin|2 years ago23 February 2024|Screen Anarchy

There are times when a movie both needs to be un-serious, and needs to hit its target of cultural critique. There are times that call for some indie b-movie wit and raunchiness, a story that finds its charm in odd...

Berlinale Review: Direct Action Offers a Rousing, Immersive Study of Communal Living

by admin|2 years ago23 February 2024|The Film Stage

There’s a stretch of land in northwestern France that’s spent the past six decades fighting prospects of total annihilation. Plans to build a new international airport began to hover above Notre-Dame-des-Landes, a rural commune a few miles from Nantes, as...

Exclusive Trailer for Kamila Andini’s Yuni Introduces an Indonesian Coming-of-Age Tale

by admin|2 years ago23 February 2024|The Film Stage

One of our favorite undistributed films of 2021 now has a home. Film Movement, who released Kamila Andini’s 2022 festival premiere Before, Now & Then in theaters last summer, has picked up the Indonesian director’s prior feature, the coming-of-age tale...

The Internet Will Never Let Russell Crowe Forget Les Miserables

by admin|2 years ago23 February 2024|Roger Ebert

Director Tom Hooper had just won an Oscar for “The King’s Speech” and now he had his sights set on an even more technically ambitious undertaking, a big-screen, live-singing version of the beloved musical war horse “Les Misérables.” Casting Broadway...

Berlin Film Festival 2024: Honoree Martin Scorsese Honors Powell and Pressburger

by admin|2 years ago23 February 2024|Roger Ebert

(Pictured: Portraits of Martin Scorsese at the Berlinale Palast. As filmmakers and cast members enter the theater for screenings, they autograph the photos—a process that the audience inside watches on the big screen.) Keeping up with Martin Scorsese at the...

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