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Obsess You Like a Ghost: Bertrand Bonello on His Years-Long Path Towards The Beast
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
Every time I’ve seen The Beast there comes some point where I think Bertrand Bonello is the world’s greatest under-60 filmmaker. Not quite a new stance for me (declaring Saint Laurent the best movie of the 2010s was a lonely...
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ABIGAIL: Check Out The Dolby Poster
by admin|3 years ago|Screen Anarchy
After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to...
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Keeping the Mystery: Alice Rohrwacher on La Chimera, Mythology, and Morality
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
In Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera, the Italian writer-director’s fourth narrative feature film, the past melds with the present. Art is something to be dug up, to be discovered, regardless of its origins. A circus troupe does the digging, led by...
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The First Omen
by admin|3 years ago|Roger Ebert
“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in “The First Omen,” a stunning prequel to Richard Donner’s timeless horror classic, “The Omen” (1976), about the evildoings of a demonic orphan adopted by a pair of unsuspecting...
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KILL Official Teaser: India’s Bloodiest Action Film is Coming This July
by admin|3 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Follows a passenger on a train to New Delhi. The train soon becomes a combat battleground as a pair of commandos face an army of invading bandits. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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The Old Oak | Review
by admin|3 years ago|Ioncinema
A Tree Grows in England: Loach Loses Steam in Klutzy Refugee Drama There’s no doubt Ken Loach is one of the most prominent social-realist directors of his time, navigating the plight of poverty (most often) amongst Britain’s working class across...
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Panic Fest 2024 Review: JEFFREY’S HELL Is a Brilliantly Self-Reflexive Found Footage Film
by admin|3 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Writer/director Aaron Irons’s debut film Chest marked him as someone to watch. His sophomore effort, Jeffrey’s Hell, confirms that he’s one of the most interesting filmmakers working in the found footage horror genre. Chest follows a documentary crew investigating an...
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Música
by admin|3 years ago|Roger Ebert
In the romantic comedy “Música,” Rudy is a young man who experiences the world through sound. In his ears, everyday noises become symphonies of life, a daily rhythm that distracts him from class and his girlfriend Haley (Francesca Reale). His...
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The People’s Joker Director Vera Drew on the Trans Awakening of Batman Forever and the Way Superhero Movies Could Survive
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
After a year-and-a-half of copyright drama, The People’s Joker is finally here. The daring mixture of both tones and form will be sure to impress anyone, even those without a lick of investment in the DC subject matter it is...
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Janet Planet Trailer Unveils Annie Baker’s Superb Debut
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
The nearly year-long span from discovering Janet Planet‘s existence to seeing a single frame was fraught with worry. What if the extraordinarily talented Annie Baker fumbled her transition into filmmaking? Nothing catastrophic, surely––no sane person’s faulting Michael Jordan for his...
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