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Fantasia 2024: Confession, Tatsumi, Vulcanizadora
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The two-hander is an elegant structure for a lower-budget effort: Just plop two characters together, often in a single location, and let the actors' performances and the innate tension of the scenario play itself out. It's a very genre-flexible conceit, malleable...
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2024 World Cinema Fund: New Lisandro Alonso & Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese Projects Backed
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Last year the likes of Nara Normande and Tião (Venice 2023 selected Sem Coração) and Mo Harawe’s (Cannes 2024 selected The Village next to Paradise) received coin for their feature film projects. Coming from countries such as Algeria, Argentina, Brazil,...
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Fantasia 2024: SINCOPAT, Short Film Short Review
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During the opening credits of short film, Sincopat, many festival laurels are initially displayed onscreen. Then, following a loud ‘bang’ on the soundtrack, several dozen more appear. This is a first for me, but it is in sync with the...
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Timothée Chalamet is Bob Dylan in First Trailer for A Complete Unknown
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After taking on Indiana Jones, James Mangold is jumping to someone even more ubiquitous in culture: the legendary Bob Dylan. Featuring Timothée Chalamet as the man himself, A Complete Unknown also stars Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook,...
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DUCHESS Clip: It’s a Garage Ambush!
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Duchess, a small-time crook, tries to enter the treacherous underworld of diamond trafficking and ends up left for dead when a deal goes wrong.  Determined to seek retribution she launches into an unwavering pursuit for vengeance.   Neil Marshall and...
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NYAFF Review: Park Beom-su’s Victory Gives a Winning Showcase to Lee Hye-ri
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A mash-up of cheerleading and soccer tropes, Victory is like a shiny, bright beach toy that breaks the first time you use it. The opening-night presentation at this year’s New York Asian Film Festival, it has enough hit tunes and...
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DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Review: Self-Awareness Doesn’t Make the Multiverse Less Exhausting
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Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman star in the latest Marvel movie, directed by Shawn Levy. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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2024 TIFF: Valchanov/Grozeva, Nacho Vigalondo, Carlos Marqués-Marcet & Rodrigo Prieto in Platform Programme
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Named after the influential film Platform (2000) by the great “Sixth Generation” master filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke, it’ll soon be a decade since TIFF introduced the Platform section – the fest’s only competition section meant to promote innovative and bold type...
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Deadpool & Wolverine
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“Deadpool & Wolverine” exists because Hugh Jackman, who has played Wolverine nine times and had supposedly retired the character after 2017’s “Logan,” loved the Deadpool series and was friends with star Ryan Reynolds. He wanted the mutant with the adamantium...
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‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Review: A Self-Aware Reckoning with the MCU’s Next Era
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Deadpool & Wolverine doesn’t flinch from speaking some measure of truth to power. The post ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Review: A Self-Aware Reckoning with the MCU’s Next Era appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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