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The B-Side Ep. 162 – Clint Eastwood (with Mitchell Beaupre)
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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 discuss Clint Eastwood, the director and the movie star....
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Cannes Review: Bi Gan’s Resurrection is a Triumph of Sheer Audacity and Exceptional Craft
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Few filmmakers with just two features under their belt can amass the passionate, cinephilic following of Bi Gan. His blend of surrealist storytelling, ultra-realist aesthetics, and a trippy play with time transforms rural China into a place of hypnotic beauty....
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New to Streaming: Vermiglio, Mickey 17, The Legend of Ochi, The Black Sea & More
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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. The Black Sea (Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden) For most of its runtime,...
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Bi Gan’s ‘Resurrection’
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An already acclaimed filmmaker in his own right after 2015’s Kaili Blues won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and 2018’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night was selected for the Cannes Film Festival – the Un Certain Regard...
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Saeed Roustayi’s ‘Woman and Child’
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Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustaee (also spelled Saeed Roustayi – I know its annoying) became part of the Cannes family when he gave us the competition title Leila’s Brothers back in 2022 (read ★★ review). For his fourth feature film, we...
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Resurrection | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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In Dreams: Gan Explores a Century of the Cinematic Syndrome We are such stuff as dreams (and celluloid) are made on, according to the sumptuous third film Resurrection from Bi Gan. The title is itself something of a misnomer, concerned...
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THE SURRENDER Review: Call Your Mother. Or Face Black Magic Horror.
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Colby Minifie and Kate Burton star in writer/director Julia Max's horror thriller, now streaming on Shudder. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ Review: A Rote Standalone Slasher in the ‘Fear Street’ Series
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Like its predecessors, the film is an often awkward mix of YA drama and R-rated gore. The post ‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ Review: A Rote Standalone Slasher in the ‘Fear Street’ Series appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Cannes Review: Sentimental Value Thrives on Joachim Trier and Renate Reinsve’s Inimitable Chemistry
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Over a delicately structured, Mike Mills-ian montage of Nora Berg’s (Renate Reinsve) personal heritage––30-odd years of an Oslo native’s existence relayed in a sparse collection of seminal moments, feelings, and thoughts, then layered into the lives and characteristics of those...
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Woman and Child | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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All the Regime Allows: Roustaee Finds a Woman Scorned If there were ever an equivalent to the Hollywood ‘woman’s film’ genre in Iranian cinema it might be Woman and Child, the latest film from Saeed Roustaee, which puts its main...
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