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Fantasia 2024: Bookworm, Shelby Oaks, The Count of Monte Cristo
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Let's get this out of the way, first and foremost: I'll probably never love a festival more than Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival. It's long (runs at least two weeks), genre-focused (horror, sci-fi, animation, you name it), and eclectic as...
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine Began Hollywood’s Spin-Off Era
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Few people have kind things to say about “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.” Receiving terrible reviews when it was released in May 2009, the film was meant to extend the X-Men cinematic universe in a unique way, giving Hugh Jackman’s mutant antihero...
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BREED Teaser Exclusive: Is This Relationship Worth Saving?
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Stick around long enough in life and you get to watch everyone's offspring grow up and start to pursue their own interests. Not speaking for all film nerds like ourselves but a fair number of creatives likely wish one of...
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Sparks’ Russell Mael Tells a Tale of Body-Snatching Alien Lovers in Trailer for Zach Clark’s The Becomers
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
White Reindeer and Little Sister director Zach Clark returned to the festival circuit last year with The Becomers, a sci-fi tale narrated by none other than Sparks frontman Russell Mael and starring Molly Plunk, Mike Lopez, Keith Kelly, Isabel Alamin,...
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2024 Venice: Avranas, Alex Ross Perry, Rosenberg, Kerekes, Friedland, Neo Sora & Elizabeth Lo in Orizzonti Selections!
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
The Un Certain Regard section in Venice, recent winners of the Horizons (Orizzonti) section include Gábor Reisz’s Explanation for Everything, Houman Seyyedi’s World War III and Valentyn Vasyanovych’s Atlantis. Some of the standouts in the selection of nineteen films include...
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KVIFF Review: Burak Çevik Explores Turkey’s Political Complexities in Nothing in Its Place
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Turkish director Burak Çevik’s fifth feature asks a perennial question (is there politics without violence?) and answers rather grimly, showing how in Turkey, circa the late 1970s (at least), there was no room for non-violent approaches. Nothing in Its Place,...
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Venice 2024 Lineup Features Films by Pedro Almodóvar, Luca Guadagnino, Brady Corbet, Kiyoshi Kurosawa & More
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Just a day after New York Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival made major announcements, Venice Film Festival is here with their full lineup ahead of the festival taking place August 28 through September 7. Highlights include Pedro Almodóvar’s...
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Robert Pattinson Joins Jennifer Lawrence in Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Following 2017’s You Were Never Really Here, we recently learned Lynne Ramsay would finally be embarking on her next feature in Canada in just a few weeks. An adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s 2019 novel Die, My Love, the film follows...
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Fantasia Review: Jérémy Clapin’s Meanwhile on Earth is a Dark Alien Tale About Loneliness
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
“They’ve gone into their dream.” That’s what the non-corporeal extraterrestrial entity (voiced by Dimitri Doré) says through a highly malleable seed that Elsa Martens (Megan Northam) places in her ear. The words are meant to comfort her when the first...
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FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE 4K Review: The Personal Is Political
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Crushing almost sixty years of twentieth-century turmoil into less run time than the equally decade-skippy first season of HBO's House of the Dragon, Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine joins the Criterion Collection this week in a new 4K transfer. The...
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