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The Next Best Picture Podcast: Episode 480 – The EE BAFTA Winners, “Toy Story 5, “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy,” “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man” & “Pressure” Trailers
by admin|4 months ago|Next Best Picture
For Episode 480, Nadia Dalimonte, Dan Bayer, Amy Kim, and Will Mavity join me for our annual real-time reactions to the EE BAFTA winners as they’re announced online hours before the actual broadcast airs. While we wait for the winners, we go over the...
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A New Dawn | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Grave of the Fireworks: Shinomiya Finds All the Colors in the Dark For his debut film, A New Dawn, animator Yoshitoshi Shinomiya marries bureaucratic takeovers, environmental issues, and broken family ties into a narrative which feels like a beautifully illustrated...
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Lali | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Ghosts of Past & Present: Sultan Khoosat Hones His Visual Flair But Latest Devolves Into Silliness A universal thematic thread of the past haunting its central characters in conflicting ways is tackled in the Pakistani production Lali. Director Sarmad Sultan...
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Berlinale Review: Trial of Hein Is a Rigorous Debut Feature Questioning Identity and Memory
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
From Biblical tales of the prodigal son to Zach Braff’s Garden State, stories of returning home after an extended absence are ripe territory to explore reconciliation and changed identity. With his rigorous debut feature Trial of Hein, Kai Stänicke distills...
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Berlinale Review: My Wife Cries Is Another Poetic Tapestry From Angela Schanelec
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
Deep into the second week of another tumultuous (and freezing cold) year at the Berlin Film Festival, Angela Schanelec arrives with a welcome reminder of what summertime in the city feels like: a place where young people meet and chat...
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Berlinale Review: Home Stories Tells an Ambitious If Uneven Intergenerational Tale
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
In Home Stories, a young woman from the town of Griez in East Germany is selected to compete on a TV talent show—an opportunity that will require her family to do a rare bit of self-reflection. The writer of this...
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The 2026 EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) Winners
by admin|4 months ago|Next Best Picture
The EE British Academy Of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. Here are this year’s winners… BEST FILMHamnetMarty SupremeOne Battle After AnotherSentimental ValueSinners OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM28 Years LaterThe Ballad of...
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BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS Interview: Director Yuen Woo-ping on Passing the Baton and Still Learning After Over 50 Years
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
There are few filmmaking visionaries whose work has touched more than Yuen Woo-ping. A triple-threat stuntman, choreographer and director, his illustrious career began hand-in-hand with Jackie Chan's, helming the seminal Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master in 1978 and supercharging the Hong...
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Berlinale 2026 Review: FOUR MINUS THREE, Grief Drama Navigates Loss and Mourning Through Clowning
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Valerie Pachner stars, as Austrian filmmaker Adrian Goiginger continues his cycle of true story adaptations with an emotional rollercoaster of a grief drama. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Roya | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
I Confess: Mohammadi’s Myriad of Memory Celebrates Women of Iran Who Don’t Stand Idly By While we understand imprisonment as punishment par excellence, what Iranian filmmaker and activist Mahnaz Mohammadi explores in her searing sophomore feature Roya is how confinement...
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