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DOC NYC Announces The 2025 Main Slate Lineup
by admin|1 year ago|Next Best Picture
DOC NYC, the festival for documentaries — celebrating its 16th edition in-person November 12-20 at IFC Center, SVA Theatre, and Village East by Angelika and continuing online through November 30th — announced its Main Slate lineup today. The 2025 festival...
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‘Alpha’ Review: An AIDS Allegory Set in a Messily Sketched Dystopian Setting
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
Julia Ducournau returns to the well of body horror, albeit a little tentatively. The post ‘Alpha’ Review: An AIDS Allegory Set in a Messily Sketched Dystopian Setting appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU Review: Rose Byrne Heads to a Point of No Return
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
In writer-director Mary Bronstein’s (Yeast) first film in almost two decades, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, a panic attack-inducing, motherhood-centered comedy-drama, the partial collapse of a ceiling and the tidal floodwater it releases into the apartment below leaves Linda...
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The Hyperboreans | Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
From the Land of Ice and Snow: Cocina & Leon Pursue Hermetical Cinematic Spell To say the latest feature from the experimentally inclined Chilean directing duo Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña is unclassifiable would be something of an understatement, delving...
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Tim Robinson Sits in a World of Paranoid Conspiracies in HBO’s “The Chair Company”
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
It’s a show that alternately plays like a mystery and a study of a man going insane. It might be both.
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ORWELL: 2+2=5 Review: The Prophecy of an Educated Imagination
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
In our current world, too many countries are ruled by governments of various authoritarian types, not at least from a military and economic perspective, the most powerful country. Many have been calling writers such as Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, and...
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The Awards Prospects For “Marty Supreme” – Will Timothée Chalamet Win Best Actor For Josh Safdie’s Latest?
by admin|1 year ago|Next Best Picture
It’s fair to be skeptical of festival hype. Every year, films generate an unprecedented level of excitement from audiences eager to see them, but only a select few actually meet those expectations. The latest to spark that kind of buzz...
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NYFF Review: In Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, Ben Stiller Interrogates His Parents’ Life and Careers
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
About halfway through his sentimental and ruminative documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, director Ben Stiller reveals that his parents––actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara––spent the majority of their life together sleeping in separate but adjoining bedrooms. It’s a small,...
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Ronan Day-Lewis on Bringing Daniel Day-Lewis Back to Cinema with Anemone
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
One October after Lebron and Bronny James made history as the first father-son duo to play on the same NBA team, Daniel Day-Lewis has come out of retirement to star in his son’s debut feature, Anemone. Since graduating with a...
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Interview: Carolina Cavalli – The Kidnapping of Arabella
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Using the road-movie narrative template to explore an unconventional form of companionship, The Kidnapping of Arabella is far from a typical coming-of-age film — in fact, it might be better described as a “coming out-of-age” journey. One of your first...
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