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Video Interview: FREAKED Special Makeup Effects Wizard Bill Corso

by admin|8 months ago12 November 2025|Screen Anarchy

I almost freaked out when I found out I was going to talk to special effects makeup legend Bill Corso. That’s not a pun, although you might think so, given that the interview was in support of Umbrella Entertainment's incredible...

Playback: Guillermo del Toro, Monstrous Beauty from CRONOS to FRANKENSTEIN

by admin|8 months ago12 November 2025|Screen Anarchy

Guillermo del Toro treats fear as a form of faith. His stories believe in what frightens us because it's often what defines us. The Mexican director builds ornate, allegorical worlds where the monster is never merely monstrous. His films are...

Mamoru Oshii’s Radical, Ethereal Angel’s Egg is an Anime Like No Other

by admin|8 months ago12 November 2025|The Film Stage

In order to best explain Mamoru Oshii’s Angel’s Egg––a stoic, ethereal vision quest of a film notorious among anime and cult enthusiasts for resisting explanation, and one which more readily invites comparisons to Cocteau, Tarkovsky, and Jodorowsky than other anime––it...

The New Best Casting Oscar Finally Gives Casting Directors Their Due…But How Will The Academy Decide Who Wins?

by admin|8 months ago12 November 2025|Next Best Picture

At the 98th Academy Awards, a momentous event will come to pass. For the first time in nearly 25 years (since the introduction of the Oscar for Best Animated Feature), a new category will debut at the Academy Awards: Best...

NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON’T Review: The Magic’s Gone in This Third Act

by admin|8 months ago12 November 2025|Screen Anarchy

Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Justice Smith, Morgan Freeman star in director Ruben Fleischer's newest film. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

2025 Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award: My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow

by admin|8 months ago12 November 2025|Ioncinema

IONCINEMA.com and Indie Film Site Network partners The Film Stage, Hammer to Nail, Next Best Picture, RogerEbert.com, and Slant Magazine (plus a Letterboxd folks contribution) are extremely proud to announce that My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in...

HTN’s 9 Most Anticipated Films of DOC NYC ‘25

by admin|8 months ago12 November 2025|Hammer to Nail

It’s that time again as New York City’s venerable celebration of documentary cinema, DOC NYC, kicks off today (November 12) running all the way through the end of the month with a November 30 wrap date. As has become the...

“My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow” Announced as Winner of the 2025 Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award

by admin|8 months ago12 November 2025|Roger Ebert

We are proud to be a part of a network of sites that has awarded Julia Loktev’s stunning “My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow” with the 2025 IFSN Advocate Award. Other films cited as essential ones...

Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Sato and Sato,” “Blue Boy Trial,” “Poca Pon,” “Blonde”

by admin|8 months ago12 November 2025|Roger Ebert

It’s easy to get lost in Tokyo if you don’t know where you’re going. Street addresses are approximate, and buildings extend vertically both up and downwards, so the place you’re looking for is probably not visible from the sidewalk. This...