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The B-Side – Peter Hyams (with Mike Ryan)
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Happy Valentine’s Day from The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we appreciate one of the great, under-appreciated Hollywood...
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The 2025 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films, Reviewed
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Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’ve reviewed every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Below are the Best Animated Short nominees: Beautiful Men | Belgium/France/Netherlands | 18 minutes Three brothers. One appointment. A lot of fog....
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Exclusive Trailer for Denis Côté’s Paul Captures Coping with Depression Through Cleaning
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Carving out a fascinating filmography with his uncompromising, intimate character studies, Canadian director Denis Côté returns this year with Paul, a new documentary premiering at the Panorama Dokumente section of Berlinale 2025. Capturing the submissive “Cleaning Simp Paul,” who embarks on...
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New to Streaming: Hard Truths, Nickel Boys, Broken Rage, The Seed of the Sacred Fig & 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 Adamant Girl (P. S. Vinothraj) While rural stories have become a topic du...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Vincent Gallo, Dutchman, Wild at Heart & More
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaVincent Gallo writes, directs, and / or stars in Buffalo ’66, Trouble Every Day, and The Brown Bunny, all playing on 35mm; a print of Twilight screens Sunday. Museum...
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‘The Gorge’ Review: So Close, Yet So Far
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Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller meet cute at the gates of hell in uneven action-horror yarn. The post ‘The Gorge’ Review: So Close, Yet So Far appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Berlinale Review: Tom Tykwer’s The Light is a Maximalist Misfire
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The 75th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival opens today and, following the rather unceremonious end of its previous two directors’ respective tenure, all eyes are on new Berlinale head Tricia Tuttle and whether she can help the wintry...
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Sundance 2025 Review: OH, HI!, Anti-Rom-Com Promises Much, Delivers Less
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The title of writer-director Sophie Brooks’s feature-length debut, Oh, Hi!, an anti-rom-com, appears almost immediately in an exchange between longtime best friends, Iris (Molly Gordon) and Max (Geraldine Viswanathan).   Usually saved for a moment combining surprise and levity, here...
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Sundance 2025 Review: DIDN’T DIE, Post-Apocalyptic Zom-Com, Short on Zombies, Short on Comedy
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In co-writer/director Meera Menon’s (Equity, Farah Goes Bang) post-apocalyptic zombie tale, Didn’t Die, a zombie-filled life is barely worth living.   As always, staying alive means not just dodging the walking dead and their appetites for human flesh, but also...
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Charles Burnett on Resurrecting The Annihilation of Fish and a Humanist Approach to Mental Illness
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Essentially a lost film, legendary director Charles Burnett’s 1999 feature The Annihilation of Fish mostly lived on the festival circuit (and in bootlegs) for a quarter-century until a recent miraculous restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The...
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