Male Directors Can’t Stop Making Movies About Female Pop Stars
For male filmmakers, female pop stars are the closest thing we have to angels in our midst. And angels aren’t meant to be possessed, merely venerated.
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Reflections on the last year of the festival, and what it means to celebrate Roger and the movies.
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “Omaha” Director Cole Webley & Screenwriter Robert Machoian
“Omaha” is a 2025 American drama film directed by Cole Webley (making his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Robert Machoian (“The Killing Of Two Lovers” and “The Integrity Of Joseph Chambers“). The film stars John Magaro as a...
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ODYSSEY Review: Rare Thriller That Never Gives Away More Than It Can Afford
Natasha Flynn (Polly Maberly) is a hustler. She runs an estate agency, selling and leasing properties all over London. Working from a flashy office with a cadre of hungry employees, on the verge of a profitable merger with a bigger...
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THE STORY – A hybrid documentary that reimagines popular depictions of sex work through the lived experiences of writer, performer, and sex worker Andrea Werhun. Andrea grapples with social stigma and reclaims her narrative in a series of funny, heartbreaking, and surprising...
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WIDOW’S BAY Review: Threading the Needle Between Comedy and Horror
Matthew Rhys, Kate O'Flynn, and Stephen Root star in Katie Dippold's darkly comic Apple TV series, which soon enters horror territory. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Opening This Week: HOKUM Nonstop Frights, ODYSSEY Gripping Thrills, OUR LAND Tragic Truth
Also: The genre-defying 'The Devil Wears Prada 2.' Plus: 'That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime,' 'The Million Dollar Bet,' and 'Salt Along the Tongue.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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TorinoFilmLab’s FeatureLab 2026: Daniel Soares, Luis De Filippis & Catarina Vasconcelos Among Ten Projects
Canadian filmmaker Luis De Filippis and Portuguese filmmakers Catarina Vasconcelos and Daniel Soares are among the ten filmmakers/feature film projects who have been selected to participate in TorinoFilmLab’s FeatureLab development programme. Screen Daily reports that we have seven debuts and...
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Guadalajara 2026 Review: THE AWAKENING (El Despertar), Echoes of History, Buried in Confusion
An elite military unit goes deep into the Colombian jungle to eliminate a strategic target. However, once they have completed the mission the unit finds themselves in a desperate fight for their lives as the violence awakens supernatural forces in...
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Park Chan-wook to Direct Tang Wei, Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, and Pedro Pascal in The Brigands of Rattlecreek
As interest in superhero films continues to wane, it looks like the western is making a comeback. With Steven Spielberg eying a new film in the genre, Park Chan-wook has now set his sights on one he’s been passionate about...
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