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2024 San Sebastián: Alberdi, Ozon, Oppenheimer, Costa-Gavras, Leigh & Laura Carreira & Xin Huo Debuts in Comp
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Eleven Golden Shell competition films have been announced this morning, joining the previously selected quintet. This year’s lineup features a mix of veteran directors, and filmmakers transitioning from non-fiction to narrative debuts, and they even made room for two directorial...
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‘Coup!’ Review: A Muddled Class Satire Set During the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic
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The film has little to add on the subject of the interplay of politics and infectious disease. The post ‘Coup!’ Review: A Muddled Class Satire Set During the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Serpent’s Path and More Set for San Sebastián Film Festival
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At long last, we now have at least one festival premiere set for one of our most-anticipated films of the year. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Serpent’s Path, a remake of his superb, bad-vibes 1998 thriller that stars Damien Bonnard, Mathieu Amalric, Ko Shibasaki, and Drive My...
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Hundreds of Beavers
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“Hundreds of Beavers,” a boldly bizarre, nearly silent slapstick comedy about a 19th-century trapper doing battle with nature, exceeds expectations in every way, including the promise of its title. By my count there are thousands of beavers in this movie....
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Looking Into My Soul: Colman Domingo on Sing Sing
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Any performance vying for being the best of Colman Domingo’s distinguished career has a high bar to clear. The actor first began as a kind of utility player in cinema, playing small, vital roles in films by Spike Lee (“Miracle...
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The Film Stage Show Ep. 544 – Twisters (with Conor Clancy)
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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Conor Clancy to discuss Twisters. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor....
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Fantasia Review: Hell Hole Finds the Adams Family Serving Up a Parasitic Creature Feature
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The parasitic creature at the center of The Adams Family’s Hell Hole (comprising John Adams and Toby Poser as directors/co-writers/stars, with daughter Lulu joining them on screenwriting duos while Zelda sits this one out) isn’t messing around. The second it...
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‘Hell Hole’ Review: A Creature Feature By Way of a Mumblecore-ish Workplace Comedy
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The Adams family takes its first wobbly baby steps outside its homegrown horror comfort zone. The post ‘Hell Hole’ Review: A Creature Feature By Way of a Mumblecore-ish Workplace Comedy appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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HELL HOLE Official Trailer: Is This a Sillier, Gorier Adams Family Than We’re Used to?
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We've got to hurry with this announcement because we've got to get in line to catch the world premiere of Hell Hole here at Fantasia. The latest horror flick from the Adams Family premieres in less than a couple hours....
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Fantasia 2024 Review: HAZE, A Dark Psychological Thriller Bouyed By A Striking Lead Performance
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A struggling young journalist returns to the hometown he abandoned long ago with hopes of digging up a story about the local psychiatric facility, what he finds instead is a past that refuses to rest in Matthew Fifer’s psychological thriller,...
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