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The 2025 Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA) Winners
by admin|7 months ago|Next Best Picture
The Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) today announced the winners in Film and all music for visual media categories. Here are this year’s winners… SONG – FEATURE FILM “Dream As One” from AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH. Written by Miley Cyrus,...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk” Filmmaker Sepideh Farsi
by admin|7 months ago|Next Best Picture
“Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk” is a documentary film directed by Sepideh Farsi, depicting life in Gaza during the ongoing Israeli military campaign, captured through Farsi’s video calls with a young Palestinian photojournalist living there named Fatima...
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Reflection in a Dead Diamond | Review
by admin|7 months ago|Ioncinema
Feed My Fetish, Please: Cattet & Forzani Pay Homage to the Eurospy in Dazzling Pastiche Whether giallo gore or Western shaped, their films don’t lose their shape, as evidenced by Reflection in a Dead Diamond, the fourth feature from Belgian...
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Jafar Panahi to Embark on His First-Ever U.S. Promotional Tour for ‘It Was Just An Accident’
by admin|7 months ago|Hammer to Nail
This may very well be the year of Jafar Panahi. Now able to move freely outside of his home country of Iran, the Palme d’Or winner is set to embark on a U.S. promotional tour to screen his awards contender,...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – “Nuremberg”
by admin|7 months ago|Next Best Picture
For this week’s second podcast review, Giovanni Lago, Alyssa Christian, and Tom O’Brien join me to review and discuss the latest film from James Vanderbilt, “Nuremberg,” starring Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark O’Brien, Colin Hanks, Wrenn Schmidt, Lydia Peckham, Richard...
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MAGELLAN Trailer: Gael Garcia Bernal Discovers A New World in Lav Diaz’s Historical Epic
by admin|7 months ago|Hammer to Nail
After an extensive festival tour that went from Cannes, TIFF, and to NYFF, Lav Diaz’s hypnotic new epic, Magellan, is finally set for a stateside release. It stars Gael Garcia Bernal as the eponymous Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan as he...
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THE RED SPECTACLES Review: Mamoru Oshii’s Absurdist Take on Authoritarianism Gets a Second Life
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Memory hardens around those who experience violence, turning guilt or pain into an armor they must carry long after the wounds close. That burden is the doorway into Mamoru Oshii's The Red Spectacles, a film where guilt materializes as a...
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A Conversation with Marialuisa Ernst (A PLACE OF ABSENCE)
by admin|7 months ago|Hammer to Nail
During Argentina’s Dirty War between 1976 and 1983, up to 30,000 people disappeared. Many were dissidents and activists publicly opposing the military dictatorship, Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (National Reorganization Process), though others were citizens suspected of being “terrorists” for having...
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RENTAL FAMILY Review: Brendan Fraser Delivers Another Unimpeachably Winning Performance
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Sometime in the 1990s, rental agencies in Japan spontaneously formed around the singular idea of renting people — or to be more exact, renting their time — to act as stand-ins, role-players, and/or performers in everyday events, from marriages to funerals...
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KOKUHO Review: The Splendor of Kabuki
by admin|7 months ago|Screen Anarchy
A hit in Japan, where it was selected to represent the country at the Academy Awards, Kokuho is a tougher sell elsewhere. Focusing on two kabuki rivals over a 50-year period, the film is nothing if not ambitious. Viewers unfamiliar with its...
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