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The 2025 Greater Western New York Film Critics Association (GWNYFCA) Winners
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The Greater Western New York Film Critics Association (GWNYFCA) have announced their winners for the best in film for 2025. Here are this year’s winners… BEST PICTUREThe Ballad of Wallis IslandBugoniaFrankensteinIf I Had Legs I’d Kick YouIt Was Just an...
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Michael Frank’s Top 10 Films of 2025
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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. I’ve been lucky to see so many movies over the last year, to speak with filmmakers, to...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – “Primate”
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For this week’s main podcast review, Dan Bayer, Giovanni Lago, and Tom O’Brien join me to discuss the killer monkey horror movie “Primate,” starring Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, and Academy Award winner Troy Kotsur. Directed by Johannes Roberts, who also co-wrote the screenplay...
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Ard’s Dozen Of Musings About 2025
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Every January I give an overview of what the previous year meant for me, film-wise, and because I cannot cull to ten properly I have always settled on twelve items. There's something special this year about my dozen of musings...
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Blerta Basholli’s ‘Dua’ – Everything We Know So Far …
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Kosovar Albanian filmmaker Blerta Basholli began in the docu form before launching into fiction terrain with the tale about rebuilding one’s life with 2021’s Hive – the first film ever to win all three top awards in the World Cinema...
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The 2025 Hollywood Creative Alliance’s (HCA) Astra Film Award Winners
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The Hollywood Creative Alliance (HCA) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. The ceremony was live-streamed on KNEKT.tv and YouTube.  Here are this year’s film award winners… Best Motion Picture Drama Hamnet (Focus Features) Frankenstein (Netflix)...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “The Voice Of Hind Rajab” Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania
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“The Voice Of Hind Rajab” is a docudrama film written and directed by Kaouther Ben Hania. It follows the Red Crescent response to the killing of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl, by the Israel Defense Forces during the Israeli...
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Now Playing: OBEX Delights, ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU Makes Choices
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Also opening: 'Primate,' 'Greenland 2: Migration,' and 'Young Mothers' from the Dardennes Brothers. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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The 2025 Pittsburgh Film Critics Association (PFCA) Winners
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The Pittsburgh Film Critics Association (PFCA) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. Here are this year’s winners… BEST PICTURE Winner: Sinners Runner-Up: One Battle After Another BEST LEAD ACTOR Winner: Rose Byrne — If I...
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A Conversation with Lav Diaz (MAGELLAN)
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Lav Diaz is one of cinema’s most uncompromising voices, crafting epic meditations on Filipino history, trauma, and identity that routinely stretch past the four, six, or even eight-hour mark. His films, including Melancholia (2008), Norte, the End of History (2013),...
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