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“PARALYZED BY HOPE: THE MARIA BAMFORD STORY”
by admin|5 months ago|Next Best Picture
THE STORY – Blurring the line between performance and personal crisis, comedian Maria Bamford turns her mental health journey into material that’s riotously funny and ultimately inspiring. What emerges is a portrait of an artist transforming vulnerability into creative strength...
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A Conversation with Rebecca Zlotowski (A PRIVATE LIFE)
by admin|5 months ago|Hammer to Nail
A Private Life, the latest feature from French director Rebecca Zlotowski (Other People’s Children), stars the great Jodie Foster as an American psychotherapist living in Paris. When a patient of hers commits suicide, she is forced to reevaluate her entire...
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Stats And Trivia From The 98th Academy Award Nominations
by admin|5 months ago|Next Best Picture
At long last, the nominations for the 98th Academy Awards are here. As always, each new crop of nominees brings plenty of trivia, fascinating stats, and a host of records. For Oscars obsessives, these records give us a glimpse into...
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Now Playing: DOOBA DOOBA, THE WELL, HARD BOILED
by admin|5 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Let's start with spoilers: two new, wide-release genre films proved to be disappointments, as the reviews linked below reveal. Bummer! So, let's first focus on two new releases of festival films that we truly enjoyed, as well as a Hong...
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Exclusive Clip and Poster for Ramzi Bashour’s Sundance Premiere Hot Water Introduces Mother-Son Road Comedy
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
Premiering in Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Dramatic Competition section today at Eccles, Ramzi Bashour’s feature debut Hot Water tells a perceptive, humorous mother-son tale set amongst a cross-country road movie. Starring Lubna Azabal (Incendies) and Daniel Zolghadri (Funny Pages, Lurker),...
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Friday One Sheet: FIUME O MORTE!
by admin|5 months ago|Screen Anarchy
In his review from Rotterdam (where the film won the FIPRESCI Prize & Tiger Award), our own Martin Kudlac described Fiume O Morte! as, "A playful, warning look at history [...] an exploration of collective memory and the reconstruction of historical narratives at...
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Exclusive Trailer for Removal of the Eye Finds Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan Building a Family
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
One of the most creative takes on the pandemic era came a few years ago with the lo-fi, humorous New Strains, and now directors Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan are returning with Removal of the Eye. Once again mining from...
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FOX’s “Memory of a Killer” Can’t Remember Why It Exists
by admin|5 months ago|Roger Ebert
FOX is launching a new thriller after the NFC Championship Game on Sunday. It's forgettable.
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NIGHT OF THE REAPER: Canadian Slasher Now on Shudder in Canada, Thanks to Raven Banner
by admin|5 months ago|Screen Anarchy
College student Deena visits home and is roped into babysitting. The local sheriff is mailed a piece of evidence and is led on a scavenger hunt to reveal the killer of another babysitter. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Sundance Review: John Wilson’s The History of Concrete is an Idiosyncratic, Joyous Feature Debut
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
Like a movie tie-in, John Wilson’s debut documentary feature, The History of Concrete, picks up immediately where his HBO series How To with John Wilson left off after three seasons. An elevated public profile does not lead to the next...
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