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The Film Stage’s Most-Read Posts of 2025
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As we continue to explore the best in 2025, today we’re taking a look at the articles that you, our dear readers, enjoyed the most throughout the past twelve months. Spanning reviews, interviews, features, podcasts, news, and trailers, check out...
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FYC 2025: Daddy Issues in HAMNET, TRAIN DREAMS, JAY KELLY
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For your consideration: Of absent fathers, grief, shame, and forgiveness in three notable films. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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From “La La Land’s” Oscar Certainty To “Moonlight’s” Best Picture Shock: Can “Sinners” Do The Same To “One Battle After Another?”
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As the New Year and the next major stage of Oscar season approaches, the 2025 race already looks like something we haven’t seen in a long time. There have been several years when only one film has swept the early...
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Home Entertainment Guide December 2025: “Black Phone 2,” “Bugonia,” “Good Fortune,” More
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The latest on Blu-ray and DVD include some recent releases along with Criterion editions of "David Byrne's American Utopia" & "His Girl Friday," along with a pair of breathtaking Second Sight limited editions.
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It’s Stephen King’s World: How the Writer Became the King of Hollywood Again in 2025
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On one of 2025's most dominant cultural forces: Stephen King.
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The 9 Best Video Games of 2025
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First things first: This is not a comprehensive feature of all the best video games of 2025. Loyal readers of this site will know that we don’t “cover the waterfront” when it comes to games, usually choosing to focus on...
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“MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I – LAST AIR IN MOSCOW”
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THE STORY – Julia Loktev documents independent journalists in Moscow facing government crackdown as Russia invades Ukraine, capturing their fight for speech amid risks of being branded “foreign agents” and the country’s drift towards authoritarianism. THE CAST – N/A THE TEAM...
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Zhuo-Ning Su’s Top 10 Films of 2025
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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Another year, another attempt to sum up cinema from the last 12 months. From where I stand,...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interviews With “The Smashing Machine” Stars Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt & Prosthetic Makeup Artist Kazu Hiro
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“The Smashing Machine” is a biographical sports drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Benny Safdie, starring Golden Globe nominee Dwayne Johnson as former amateur wrestler and MMA fighter Mark Kerr, alongside Academy Award nominee Emily Blunt as Kerr’s...
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2025 Marrakech Film Festival – Atlas Workshop: Asmae El Moudir & Laila Marrakchi
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Moroccan filmmakers Asmae El Moudir and Laila Marrakchi shared the €20,000 top prize ex aequo at the eighth edition of Marrakech’s Atlas Workshop, the industry platform dedicated to Moroccan, Arab, and African cinema. El Moudir’s Don’t Let the Sun Go...
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