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by admin|4 months ago16 February 2026|Next Best Picture

THE STORY – In bustling contemporary Singapore, 21-year-old Junyang is enjoying the ease of youth while his father struggles to hold their modest life together. When Junyang’s relationship with his girlfriend takes an unexpected and life-altering turn, the young couple is...

TU YAA MAIN Review: India’s Remake Of THE POOL Blows The Original Out Of The Water

by admin|4 months ago16 February 2026|Screen Anarchy

A pair of star-crossed lovers fight for their lives against a hungry crocodile in director Bejoy Nambiar’s surprising Tu Yaa Main, a masala adaptation of cult Thai survival horror film, The Pool. Ms. Vanity aka Avani (Shanaya Kapoor) is one...

Truly Naked | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

by admin|4 months ago16 February 2026|Ioncinema

Father Knows Best: Intimacy Cuts Deepest in d’Ansembourg’s Debut “When porn has become the norm, intimacy is the new taboo,” reads an early tagline for Truly Naked, the directorial debut of Muriel d’Ansembourg, who has built a reputation with previous...

Frederick Wiseman Dies at 96

by admin|4 months ago16 February 2026|The Film Stage

Non-fiction cinema is before and after Frederick Wiseman, an indisputable notion that loses no import with the news, made official by his own Zipporah Films, that the artist behind—let’s name just a fraction—Titticut Follies, High School, The Store, Welfare, Central...

Nina Roza | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

by admin|4 months ago16 February 2026|Ioncinema

Father Figure, Mother Tongue: Dulude-De Celles Curates Reconciliation It turns out you can go home again…but don’t expect not to confront psychic wounds left untended, at least according to Nina Roza, the second narrative feature from Canadian filmmaker Geneviève Dulude-De...

“NINA ROZA”

by admin|4 months ago16 February 2026|Next Best Picture

THE STORY – A viral video of an 8-year-old Bulgarian artist catches the eye of a major art collector. Mihail is sent there, 30 years after leaving his home country, to assess the value of the girl’s work and confront the...

Berlinale Review: An Extraordinary Isabelle Huppert Dwarfs Everyone Else In Ulrike Ottinger’s Campy The Blood Countess

by admin|4 months ago16 February 2026|The Film Stage

When I think about a quintessential Isabelle Huppert film, I like to defer to a largely forgotten feature that will soon turn ten: Serge Bozon’s 2017 Mrs. Hyde. I say “quintessential” because Huppert has long excelled at playing beleaguered women...

BLIND COP 2 Exclusive: Chroma Picks up North American Rights to Indie Action-Comedy

by admin|4 months ago16 February 2026|Screen Anarchy

When an influx of illegal weapons trafficking explodes onto the scene, a grieving blind police officer must purge the city streets or risk mass chaos breaking loose. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Sean Baker, Miguel Gomes, Véréna Paravel, Laura Citarella, and Eduardo Williams Plot New Films

by admin|4 months ago16 February 2026|The Film Stage

Any film that earns you, personally, the greatest number of Oscars since Walt Disney is a tough act to follow, so one must admire Sean Baker’s lack of pretension in succeeding Anora with a tribute to one of the, let’s...