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Berlinale Review: Mouse Offers a Tender Companion After Loss
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
It’s the last day of junior high for Minnie (Katherine Mallen Kupferer) and her best friend Callie (Chloe Coleman); the veil of adulthood has never felt as thin as it does on that late-June morning in the car, blasting Michelle...
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A Conversation with Alyssa Marvin, Frank Hall Green, Pilot Bunch, Kal Wilson, Allan Lopez & Margaret Cho (RUN AMOK)
by admin|4 months ago|Hammer to Nail
Run Amok is written and directed by NB Mager, expanding from her award-winning short film of the same name which won the Grand Jury Prize at IFF Boston and qualified for Oscar consideration. The film follows Meg (Alyssa Marvin), a...
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UNDER YOUR FEET Trailer: Sales Mount up For Spanish Language Chiller
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
We have the first trailer and more stills from Cristian Bernard's Spanish-language chiller, Under Your Feet.    Isabel moves with her two children into a prestigious building that has a peculiar admission method, but at an affordable rental fee. Once...
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Berlinale Review: We Are All Strangers Channels Edward Yang to Kitschy But Compelling Ends
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
The new film from Anthony Chen takes a minute to find its rhythm. For the first hour or so of its admittedly substantial runtime, I couldn’t help but wonder if an LLM, prompted to make the most normcore script imaginable,...
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Dust | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Corporate Cannibals: Blondé Underwhelms with Ethical Reckoning There’s an interesting idea behind Dust, which finds two Belgian entrepreneurs essentially navigating their last two days of freedom in 1999 and struggling to come to terms with embracing accountability for their actions....
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Rose | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
A Self-Made Man: Schleinzer Explores the Privilege of Pants If there’s a trough line (beyond the eponymous titles) of Austrian director Markus Schleinzer’s films, it’s a connective theme of humans who try to restore equanimity in their personal lives by...
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Salvation | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Hysterical Intervention: Alper Gets Overwrought Exploring Tribalism The land dispute at the center of Emin Alper’s latest film Salvation has all the trademarks of a Shakespearean tragedy, so it’s unfortunate his approach often feels labored, and at times, over the...
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Short Films in Focus: The 2026 Oscar-Nominated Shorts
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
A look at all of the shorts nominated for the 2026 Academy Awards.
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“Train Dreams” Wins Big at the 2026 Independent Spirit Awards
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
The winners of this year's Independent Spirit Awards, dominated by Netflix.
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“CHIMNEY TOWN: FROZEN IN TIME”
by admin|4 months ago|Next Best Picture
THE STORY – A young boy called Lubicchi is filled with sorrow after losing his best friend, Poupelle. Then he accidentally wanders into a mysterious realm that governs time. In this world, any clock that stops ticking is immediately discarded. But...
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