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No Box He Won’t Escape From: James Mangold on “A Complete Unknown”
by admin|7 months ago|Roger Ebert
An interview with the writer/director about his locked-in take on Bob Dylan, and whether he thinks "Walk Hard" killed the music biopic.
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Exclusive: ’90s Sundance Gem Girls Town Gets 4K Restoration, Trailer, and Theatrical Release
by admin|7 months ago|The Film Stage
While the 2025 Sundance Film Festival is just around the corner, January also brings an opportunity to revisit one of the highlights that made a splash nearly three decades ago, now newly restored. Jim McKay’s feature debut Girls Town, which...
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DFW Film Critics Choose ANORA as Best Film of 2024
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Somehow, I remain a proud member of the Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association here in Texas, and so I am pleased to pass along the news that our group has voted the comedy-drama Anora as the best film of 2024,...
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Death of a Unicorn Trailer: John Carpenter Scores Dark Comedy Starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega
by admin|7 months ago|The Film Stage
It’s not often that the composer of a movie is our key reason to see a film, but such is the case for a new A24 dark comedy featuring a score by none other than the legendary John Carpenter. Death...
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MUFASA: THE LION KING Review: Barry Jenkins Brings His Indie Auteur Cred to Disney’s Beloved Property
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
When Disney tapped filmmaker Jon Favreau (The Jungle Book, Chef, Elf) to direct a computer-animated remake of its 1994 classic, The Lion King, it was met with of raised eyebrows, minot irritation, and a shedload’s worth of doubt, but the...
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‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ Review: Barry Jenkins’s Prequel Is a Captivating Children’s Fable
by admin|7 months ago|Slant Magazine
At its best, the film carries itself forward with the dignity worthy of a king. The post ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ Review: Barry Jenkins’s Prequel Is a Captivating Children’s Fable appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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The Room Next Door | Review
by admin|7 months ago|Ioncinema
Triumph of the Will: Almodovar’s Muy Excelente English Debut “Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems,” wrote Virginia Woolf in her seminal essay A Room of One’s Own, published in 1929. She’s a notable reference...
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2025 Oscars: Sundance’s Daughters, Porcelain War, Sugarcane & Berlinale’s Dahomey & No Other Land in Docu Mix
by admin|7 months ago|Ioncinema
Documentary film items from this past Sundance in Black Box Diaries, Daughters, Frida, Porcelain War, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, Sugarcane, Union and Will & Harper alongside Dahomey (also nominated in Best International Feature category)...
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2025 Oscars: ‘A Crab in the Pool,’ ‘The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent,’ and ‘The Masterpiece’ Shortlisted
by admin|7 months ago|Ioncinema
Among the hundreds of short films in contention in the three categories of Animation, Live Action and Documentary we find some of our favorites in Alexandra Myotte & Jean-Sébastien Hamel‘s animated A Crab in the Pool, live-action items in Sundance...
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2025 Oscars: ‘Universal Language’, ‘From Ground Zero’ & ‘Touch’ Join Heavy Favorites on Shortlist
by admin|7 months ago|Ioncinema
As is the case every year out, films that had a legit chance of joining the shortlist pack of fifteen in Austria’s The Devil’s Bath, Belgium’s Julie Keeps Quiet, Mexico’s Sujo, Poland’s Under the Volcano and Portugal’s Grand Tour will...
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