Cannes 2025: A Look At What The Mad Scientists Are Doing…
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The world's most famous film festival rounds up today, and we've had plenty of reviews in the past weeks. But Cannes also has a business side of course, a vast market where people try and get their projects financed, scout...
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Cannes 2025: Resurrection, Honey Don’t
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On two very different films from this year's Cannes from Bi Gan & Ethan Coen.
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Cannes 2025: The Mastermind, Young Mothers
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On the final two films of this year's Cannes Competition program.
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Jeunes mères (Young Mothers) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Bonjour Tristesse: The Dardenne Bros. Explore Teenage Pregnancy In their latest neo-realist exercise on plights of the disenfranchised, the Dardenne Bros. return to gentler themes with Young Mothers. A coterie of teen mothers living in a shelter find themselves confronted...
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ODDITIES: Horror Icon Adrienne Barbeau to Star in New Horror Thriller
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A bit of late evening news for you folks who stuck it out with us. Variety had reported that filming had wrapped on a horror thriller called Oddities. Directed by Tyler Savage who has based this feature film off of...
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: ‘Sirat’ ‘The Secret Agent’ & ‘It Was Just an Accident’ Finish 1-2-3!
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Tomorrow is the big day. There were twenty-two films in competition and only one will take home the big daddy prize. If it were according to our Cannes Critics’ Panel – it would be a Spanish film that would be...
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Kelly Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind’
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While she has dropped world premieres at Sundance and Venice (plus Telluride), Kelly Reichardt has been flirting with Cannes on three occasions total (plus when she was feted by the Quinzaine folks with the Carrosse d’Or award). It began with...
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Dardenne Bros.’ ‘Jeunes mères’
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Winner of the Palme d’Or for 1999’s Rosetta (which also took Best Actress for the recently departed Émilie Dequenne) and 2005’s The Child, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have been Cannes mainstays landing accolades for almost their entire filmography. Jeunes mères...
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‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Review: Wes Anderson’s Breezy Exploration of Family and Spirituality
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The raw emotion underlying The Phoenician Scheme peeks out at unexpected times. The post ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Review: Wes Anderson’s Breezy Exploration of Family and Spirituality appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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‘Mountainhead’ Review: Jesse Armstrong’s Acid-Singed Comedy About Modern Wealth and Power
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With Mountainhead, Armstrong is sticking to a kind of satire he knows well. The post ‘Mountainhead’ Review: Jesse Armstrong’s Acid-Singed Comedy About Modern Wealth and Power appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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