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New to Streaming: Free Time, Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus, Neonoir, This Closeness, Family Portrait & More
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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. 32 Sounds (Sam Green) Filmmaker Sam Green captures something so specific here: he makes...
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Posterized July 2024: Longlegs, MaXXXine, Didi & More
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Between Despicable Me 4 (July 3), Twisters (July 19), and Deadpool & Wolverine (July 26), there aren’t going to be too many open screens in theaters this month. So marketing becomes a huge piece of the puzzle as far as...
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KVIFF Review: With Panopticon, a New Georgian Filmmaker Keeps You Watching
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Cinema has always had a way of opening unfamiliar places up to the world––if not always for a visit, then at least in the imaginations of those watching. The success of Georgian cinema in the last few years has come...
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The Film Stage Show Ep. 541 – The Bikeriders (with Jesse Hassenger)
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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Jesse Hassenger to discuss Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes...
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Newark Confiture: Balagov’s “Butterfly Jam” Set for a September Start Date
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In what promises to be a vintage 2025 year for auteur cinema, Kantemir Balagov‘s next might also join the fray. Originally titled “Monica” and developed well before the invasion, this English-language debut will be shot in New Jersey and now...
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PARIS IS IN HARLEM Review: Mosaics of Life and Music
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While there are a lot of laws enacted (and sometimes still exist) in cities that seem very odd and specific (I read once about a law forbidding people from hiding bees under their hats), some laws that seem strange on...
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KVIFF: Loveable, Tiny Lights, Windless
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As I was writing up this second dispatch from Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, I couldn't help but think that this is probably the best collection of titles I’ve had this year in one of these write-ups. The three films here...
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Kill
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A movie theater would probably be the best place to see “Kill,” a bloody Hindi-language Indian beat-em-up set on a train to New Delhi. The movie features a handful of visually dynamic fight scenes, choreographed by action directors Se-yeong Oh...
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Space Cadet
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You can almost hear the elevator pitch: “Legally Blonde” in space, an under-rated ditz who doesn't dress or talk like the snobbish types with the gilded resumes but shows she has the right stuff. Then maybe add a little bit...
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Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
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It's natural to be suspicious of an Angel Studios picture; after all, the Utah-based movie studio made its mark last year with the surprising box office success of the child-trafficking thriller "Sound of Freedom." The film raked in $242 million off...
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