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Sentimental Value | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
Life as a House: Trier Turns Broken Hearts Into Art In Woody Allen’s Interiors (1978), an unhappy tale of three sisters contending with their parents’ divorce, Mary Beth Hurt confronts anguished Geraldine Paige, a mother all-consumed with her abandonment. “I...
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
Everyone took notice with his 2006 debut Reprise, but it is his Cannes’ Un Certain Regard 2011 sophomore feature Oslo, August 31st where this Norwegian filmmaker made his international mark. With competition stints in Cannes with 2015’s Louder Than Bombs...
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Oliver Hermanus’ ‘The History of Sound’
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus might be another newbie in competition but this first trip to Cannes as he premiered 2011’s Beauty in the Un Certain Regard section. He directed 2019’s Moffie (read review) but is best known for his last...
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Carla Simón’s ‘Romería’
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
In competition film #16 of the twenty-two offerings, and the first of a three day competition buffet, and the second com title from Spain, Carla Simón‘s fourth feature film is tipped as a neorealist flamenco musical in the neighbourhood of...
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The History of Sound | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t: Hermanus Plays a Tune for the Broken Hearted “Happiness doesn’t tell stories,” is a sage observation uttered in The History of Sound, South African director Oliver Hermanus’ melancholic portrait of two young men in love...
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Cannes Review: A Private Life Proves a Fleet, Sharp Showcase for Jodie Foster
by admin|1 month ago|The Film Stage
It came as quite the surprise that acclaimed director Rebecca Zlotowski’s latest film, led by Jodie Foster and an all-star French cast, did not make Cannes competition. If it turns out A Private Life might indeed be too slight for...
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Romería | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
Blood Relatives: Simon Treads Familiar Water with Continued Autofiction After winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for her 2022 sophomore film Alcarras, Carla Simón returns to the autobiographical roots inspiring Summer 1993 (2017), her debut feature. The...
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A DOZEN TOUGH JOBS: Reimagining of The Twelve Labors of Hercules Getting an Animated Adaptation
by admin|1 month ago|Screen Anarchy
Lion Forge Entertainment is joining forces with George R. R. Martin to adapt Howard Waldrop’s  novella A Dozen Tough Jobs into an adult animated feature film.    Descended from slaves, Hercules has just been released from prison for a heinous...
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A Conversation with Roxy Sophie Sorkin (SWOLLEN)
by admin|1 month ago|Hammer to Nail
Rising filmmaker Roxy Sophie Sorkin brings her unique comedic sensibility to the screen with Swollen, a sharp-witted short film which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. In this 13-minute horror-comedy, two best friends recovering from facial plastic surgery find...
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THE MORTICIAN Trailer: Death Comes Home
by admin|1 month ago|Screen Anarchy
Death comes for all of us, but that doesn't mean you need to hurry it along. Debuting on Sunday, June 1, The Mortician is a three-part documentary series, telling "the haunting story of L.A.'s most infamous family-run mortuary," according to...
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