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TIFF 2025: Dust Bunny, The Furious, Normal
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
On three Midnight Madness films: The film directorial debut of Bryan Fuller, a new gun fu classic, and more Bob Odenkirk action.
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Toronto 2025 Review: OBSESSION Gleefully Transgresses Relationship Boundaries with Hellish Precision And Cringe
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Cute and apprehensive, but passively sweet Baron, whose friends call him Bear, has one last chance to avoid the Friend Zone with his co-worker Nikki.   Quietly, inelegantly, he lusts over her, while outwardly he can only simp in ways...
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‘The Smashing Machine’ Review: Benny Safdie’s Biopic Is a Prolonged Bout with Déjà Vu
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
The film follows too closely in the footsteps of John Hyams’s documentary of the same name. The post ‘The Smashing Machine’ Review: Benny Safdie’s Biopic Is a Prolonged Bout with Déjà Vu appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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‘Sound of Falling’ Review: A Haunting Meditation on the Reverberations of Trauma
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
The past comes off in Mascha Schilinski’s film as an onerous, if unseen, weight on the present. The post ‘Sound of Falling’ Review: A Haunting Meditation on the Reverberations of Trauma appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Toronto 2025 Review: JUNK WORLD, A Dizzying Tale Told With Incredible Animation
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Stalk-like creatures wriggling out of walls. Endless trenches that hide dangers. Half-men, half-robots in fetish wear. Removable eyes. These are just some of the wonders and weirdos that await in Takahide Hori's latest animated film, Junk World. Bizarre, funny, sometimes confusing,...
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HOT MILK Review: Sunny Vacation, Highbrow Tedium
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Everything in Hot Milk is about to spoil. The movie unfolds in a low-rent resort in Almería on the southeast seacoast of Spain. There, Sofia (Emma Mackey) and her mother Rose (Fiona Shaw) are trapped in a "vacation" that shows no signs...
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Interview: Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey on the Authenticity of Carmen Emmi’s ‘Plainclothes’
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
The actors discuss the film’s richly fragmentary style, its frank sex scenes, and more. The post Interview: Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey on the Authenticity of Carmen Emmi’s ‘Plainclothes’ appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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TIFF 2025: The Tale of Silyan, Love+War, The Balloonists
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
On three docs from TIFF, including the latest from the directors of Honeyland and Free Solo.
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Friday One Sheet: NOVIEMBRE
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
27 Hours, 1 Bathroom. 25 Hostages. This festival poster for Tomás Corredor's Noviembre (November) lists the real-life hostages vertically above the catchy tagline. A highly-dramatized account of Colombia's nation-tramautizing 1985 siege and hostage situation at the country's Palace of Justice, the key art...
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Exclusive Trailer for 35th Anniversary Restoration of Zhang Yimou’s Ju Dou Starring Gong Li
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
A key collaboration between modern China’s most significant actress and director, Zhang Yimou’s Gong Li-starrer Ju Dou has been restored and will receive a 35th-anniverary rerelease that starts at Film Forum on October 3. Ahead of this we’re pleased to...
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