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MUBI’s June 2025 Lineup Includes Twin Peaks, Việt and Nam, Gregg Araki & More
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
MUBI’s June 2025 selections have arrived, featuring the previously announced mammoth drop of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks: Season 1 & 2 and Twin Peaks: The Return. Additional highlights include Trương Minh Quý’s acclaimed second feature Việt and...
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Dites-lui que je l’aime (Tell Her I Love Her) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
The Family Tree Grows Tangled Roots In Romane Bohringer’s Metafictional Feature Family can make you and family can break you apart. The ties that bind are the same that can cinch too tight, leaving you bound to those that have...
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Cannes 2025: The Secret Agent, The Love That Remains, Magellan
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
The scope of Cannes expands and contracts with three films that either peer into hometowns or box in their cinematic frames.
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Lookin’s Free: Joe Don Baker (1936-2025)
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
On the celebrated character actor, who walked tall through Westerns, crime pictures, and spy flicks for 60 years.
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Hot Docs 2025 Review: SPARE MY BONES, COYOTE! Illuminates the Human Cost of Border Crossings
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Jonah Malak reframes the U.S.-Mexico border as a landscape of absence and loss. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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BRING HER BACK Review: The Philippou Brothers Deliver Another Masterclass in Horror
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou wrote and directed their new thriller. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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“Nine Perfect Strangers’” Second Season is Less Insightful, Still Somewhat Fun
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
“Nine Perfect Strangers” started as a maximalist show, with Nicole Kidman bewitching those around her as Masha Dmitrichenko, the Eastern Bloc wellness entrepreneur who promised personal transformation with her custom psychedelic therapies. The second season duplicates that formula with a...
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Cannes Review: Eagles of the Republic is a Playful Comedy-Thriller About an Egyptian Movie Star
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
George Fahmy (Fares Fares) is an A-list movie star of the highest order, something Eagles of the Republic establishes at the jump. We open on him with a beautiful woman in a convertible on a soundstage, wrapping a glamorous film...
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Meteors | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Male Friendship Comes Apart In Hubert Charuel’s Assured Sophomore Feature A meteorite enters Earth’s atmosphere moving up to 72 kilometers per second and (usually) burns up before striking the ground. Best friends Mika (Paul Kircher) and Daniel (Idir Azougli) seem...
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Cannes Review: The Phoenician Scheme Finds Wes Anderson Losing the Plot in Breakneck, Tiresome Spy Comedy
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
We begin with music that’s uncharacteristically tense for a Wes Anderson film––chugging cellos leading a full orchestra that’s more Mission: Impossible than Moonrise Kingdom––and opener à la Nolan blockbusters: an assassination attempt. It’s an exhilarating launch into a story that...
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