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Alpha | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Turn to Stone: Ducournau Hits a Wall with Disease Allegory “Death is the cure for all illness,” wrote English writer Thomas Browne, which is a sentiment one can apply to Alpha, the third film from budding body horror extraordinaire Julia...
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Tarik Saleh’s ‘Eagles of the Republic’
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh has been moving up from arthouse The Nile Hilton Incident (read ★★★ review) and genre items The Contractor (read ★★ review) to Cannes type projects such as Cairo Conspiracy aka Boy From Heaven (read ★★½ review)....
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Eagles of the Republic | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
One Flew Over the Coup’s Nest: Saleh Muddles Through Propaganda Politics “Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true,” so said Hubert H. Humphrey. In the case...
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NIGHT AFTER NIGHT: HACKS Actor Johnny Sibilly Joins Sci-fi Thriller
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Some casting news for you today, for a sci-fi thriller called Night After Night. Hacks actor Johnny Sibilly, Alexis Louder, and Trace Lysette have boarded the flick.    Two overnight security guards at a private university experience increasingly disturbing events when...
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Udine 2025 Review: TEKI COMETH Details a Slide Into Madness
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Kyozo Nagatsuka is superb as a professor who is losing touch with reality. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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DEAF PRESIDENT NOW! Review: Hear Me Roar
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim's documentary sheds light on an unappreciated civil rights moment in U.S. (and world) history. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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ALPHA Teaser Trailer: Julia Ducournau’s Twisted Cannes Contender Arrives This October
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
Four years after nabbing the Palme d’Or for her twisty, jaw-dropping body horror Titane, Julia Ducournau is gearing up to make another splash at this year’s Cannes Film Festival with her highly anticipated third feature, Alpha. The film, which reunited...
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THE SHROUDS Interview: David Cronenberg, Wrapped in What the Light Reveals
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
When I’m interviewing someone as respected as David Cronenberg, the temptation to revisit as much of his work as I can ahead of time looms large. It’s seldom practical unless one is writing a book. Especially when the work spans...
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THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: THE THREE & FOUR MUSKETEERS
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
(We here at Hammer to Nail are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films of yesteryear that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, “The Curbside Criterion” continues...
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Cannes 2025 Review: DALLOWAY Envisions a Grim, Not-Too-Distant Future Where A.I. Assistants Run Amok
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
In director Yann Gozlan's out-of-competition midnight entry, technology may be fluid, but evil Big Tech is forever. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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