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All 2025 Films Having Awards-Qualifying, One-Week Releases
by admin|8 months ago|The Film Stage
As we get closer to the end of 2025 and various critics and voting bodies collate their year-end lists and ballots, the question of what is eligible for such selection often crops up. It’s become common practice for distributors to...
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The B-Side Ep. 169 – Bill Paxton (with Billy Ray Brewton)
by admin|8 months ago|The Film Stage
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we talk about a performer that we lost far too...
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San Sebastian 2025 Review: REDOUBT, Measured, Poetic Study of Obsession, Isolation in Rural Sweden
by admin|8 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Swedish filmmaker John Skoog reconstructs the true story of Karl-Göran Persson, a Cold War-era farm laborer who turned his home into a private fortress. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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‘The Choral’ Review: Nicholas Hytner’s Wafer-Thin Period Dramedy About the Power of Music
by admin|8 months ago|Slant Magazine
The Choral sets out to mix comedy with tragedy, but it’s an unsuccessful brew. The post ‘The Choral’ Review: Nicholas Hytner’s Wafer-Thin Period Dramedy About the Power of Music appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Serial Killer Brno 2025 Review: QUEEN OF FUCKING EVERYTHING, Finnish Darker Comedy Series, Taps into BREAKING BAD Territory with a Twist
by admin|8 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Writer-director Tiina Lymi delivers a darker Finnish crime dramedy that examines the collapse of middle-class identity through the story of a real estate agent whose gradual descent into criminality exposes the moral fragility beneath social respectability. [Read the whole post...
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Criterion in January 2026: BIRTH and THE DEAD, Plus DEAD MAN and More
by admin|8 months ago|Screen Anarchy
The new year will span a lifetime through fresh releases from The Criterion Collection, headlined by Jonathan Glazer's Birth, John Huston's The Dead, and Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man. Of course, the home video label is about more than life and...
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IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Review: Darkly Comic Social, Moral Examination
by admin|8 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Jafar Panahi's new film. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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A Conversation with Richard Linklater (BLUE MOON)
by admin|8 months ago|Hammer to Nail
On the evening of March 31, 1943, the genre-revising Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! opened at the St James Theater in Manhattan. Before the boisterous curtain calls, Lorenz Hart left the theater for Sardi’s, just a few doors away. For...
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The Drama Shows To Look Forward To For Next Year’s Emmy Awards
by admin|8 months ago|Next Best Picture
One year ago, I do not think the reigning Outstanding Drama Series Emmy champion “The Pitt” was on anyone’s radar. Nevertheless, today I shall do my best to summarize the major 2026 Emmy contenders in the Drama categories (please see...
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The Criterion Collection’s January 2026 Lineup Includes Yi Yi, Birth, and Dead Man on 4K
by admin|8 months ago|The Film Stage
Criterion will not begin 2026 on a quiet note. It’s notable enough that we now have Edward Yang’s Yi Yi, a consensus pick for the 21st century’s greatest film, upgraded to 4K, but two titles long rumored for the treatment...
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