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Locust | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Code of Silence: KEFF Revisits Time of Turmoil For his directorial debut, KEFF revisits the pinnacle of turmoil during the 2019 Hong Kong protests as a backdrop for a pseudo gangland thriller and romantic drama in Locust. Much like its...
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Netflix’s Bridgerton Makes Some Improvements to its Popular Formula
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The Shondaland/Netflix juggernaut that is “Bridgerton” is back for a third season, after taking a fruitful detour via its “Queen Charlotte” prequel. This new season, focusing on the love story of Nicola Coughlan’s Penelope Featherington and Luke Newton’s Colin Bridgerton,...
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Alexandre Aja Sets Halle Berry in Psychological Thriller in First Trailer for Never Let Go
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After crafting some of the most entertaining B-movies in recent years with Crawl and Oxygen, Alexandre Aja is returning with a new one-location psychological thriller this year. Never Let Go, not to be confused with Kazuo Ishiguro’s book and Mark...
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Kathryn Bigelow, Pietro Marcello, Juliette Binoche & More Set Next Films
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At long last, Kathryn Bigelow is returning to filmmaking. After 2017’s Detroit, she was developing the David Koepp-scripted thriller Aurora for Netflix but has now moved on to another project for the company. The untitled thriller will unfold in real-time...
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Adam Driver, Tom Waits & More Join Jim Jarmusch’s Next Film as First Plot Details Arrive
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While Jim Jarmusch kicked off Cannes five years ago with his last feature, The Dead Don’t Die, the filmmaker is now revealing the first details on his next film during the festival. As we’ve already known, Father Mother Sister Brother features a...
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Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2
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The slot belonging to the second film of the competition belonged to Magnus von Horn‘s The Girl with the Needle (aka Pigen med nålen) – a Danish-Polish-Swedish co-production in glorious b&w photography. Three feature films in and three Cannes Film...
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Agathe Riedinger’s Wild Diamond – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1
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We kicked off the competition of twenty-two films with a debut feature, which is worth noting given the rarity of newbies in the competition section. It marks two consecutive years for a first feature from a female filmmaker, following Ramata-Toulaye...
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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Other People’s Money: Rosselli Finds Being Criminal is Relative In keeping with a growing tradition of contemporary Argentinian cinema’s unorthodox narrative structures, editor Hernán Rosselli adds to this offbeat wave with his sophomore narrative feature, Something Old, Something New, Something...
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Cannes 2024: The Girl with the Needle, Wild Diamond
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Of the 22 films in this year's Cannes competition, the first two to screen have a lot in common. Both are portraits of strong-willed women willing to be exploited to find a way out of poverty. Both films doggedly stick...
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The Girl With the Needle | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Casa de los Babys: von Horn Hits a Bleak Streak You know you’re in for something dark and dreary when a film opens upon a character in a world where despair has coagulated into grim apathy. Such is the case...
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