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Women Writers Week 2025: Table of Contents
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
Links to all of our content from our event week this year.
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Black Bag Review: Steven Soderbergh Delivers Slick, Barbed Spy Thriller
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
If a James Bond or Mission: Impossible film excised all its action scenes––save a stray explosion or gunshot––while employing a script with a pop John le Carré sensibility, it might resemble something like Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag. A hyper-slick, suave...
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Women Develop New Models of Heroism in Festival Docs
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
On the feminist thrust of two acclaimed Sundance docs from this year.
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People Have Theories: “Picnic at Hanging Rock” at 50
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
A look back at Peter Weir's mysterious masterpiece.
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Having a Lunatic’s Dream: Emily Bett Rickards on “Queen of the Ring”
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
An interview with the star of Queen of the Ring.
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HBO’s “The Righteous Gemstones” Return for Its Darkest Season Yet
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
“The Righteous Gemstones” is funny, wry, clever, disgusting, moving, shocking, and endearing in ways that are purely aspirational for most comedies on TV, and I’m sorry to say goodbye to it.
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MICKEY 17: Now Playing, Taking Us to the Stars
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Our own Pierce Conran wrote an in-depth review of Bong Joon Ho's latest film, Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattison, upon its premiere at Berlinale 2025 last month. He wrote in part: "With his latest film, Bong Joon Ho reaches for...
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Bruno Dumont on The Empire, Star Wars, and the Maelstrom of Human Nature
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
Initially considered the heir to Robert Bresson, Bruno Dumont shocked audiences in 2014 with the heel-turn of his Twin Peaks-inspired miniseries P’tit Quinquin, which (were it not television) would certainly earn the label of An Extremely Goofy Movie. His switch...
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THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: CRONOS
by admin|3 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(We here at Hammer to Nail are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films of yesteryear that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, “The Curbside Criterion” continues...
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New Directors/New Films Unveils 2025 Lineup
by admin|3 months ago|Hammer to Nail
New Directors/New Films is coming back for its 54th edition. Since 1972, it has showcased work from the likes of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Kelly Reichardt, Pedro Almodóvar, Souleymane Cissé, Jia Zhangke, Spike Lee, Lynne Ramsay, Michael Haneke, Wong Kar-wai,...
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