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THE BUILDOUT: Drama Horror Opens February 25th
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As was reported last week, friend of the site Noah Lang launched a new distribution label called Ethos Releasing and they announced this year's lineup of releases. First on that list is Zeshaan Younus' drama horror, The Buildout.    We now...
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ARMAND Review: Dissecting Power Plays and Distorted Realities in Mercurial, Claustrophobic Satire
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Renate Reinsve stars in Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel's dramatic thriller from Norway. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Interview: Gerardo Coello Escalante & Amandine Thomas – SUSANA (2025 Sundance Short)
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Of all the major film festivals, it’s perhaps the Sundance folks who have built the deepest ties with the filmmaker community and much of this stems from the alumni relationships formed from having programmed a short and sometimes, as is...
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10 Great Performances from Sundance 2025
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On a few of our favorite performances from Sundance 2025.
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Rotterdam Review: Takashi Miike’s Blazing Fists is a Pulpy Sports Crime Movie
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It’s hard to say what’s more endearing about Takashi Miike these days: that the director of Audition and Ichi The Killer is still out there producing work at the same, alarming rate (his last release, a TV movie remake of...
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THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS First Trailer: Marvel’s First Superhero Team is Back in Retro-Action This Summer
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The first trailer for Marvel's The Fantastic Four: First Steps was released this morning. Due for release this Summer this is our first look at the latest stab at depicting the first superhero team created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee....
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Sundance Review: LUZ is an Emotionally Detached Mood Piece Searching for Connection
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With an evocative opening-credits sequence as the camera swirls through a virtual landscape of neon signs and lights, one might think they are witnessing the beginning of the next Gaspar Noé film. Thankfully what follows in Flora Lau’s second feature...
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Sundance Review: Seeds is a Beautiful, Haunting Documentary about the Wisdom of Elders
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Evoking Gordon Park’s black-and-white photographs of the New Deal Era, cinematographer Brittany Shyne’s powerful debut feature Seeds offers a portrait of a disappearing way of life for Black farmers in the American South. Its casual approach mostly reflects rhythms of...
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Sundance Review: In Omaha, a Desperate Dad Takes His Kids On an Unexpected Road Trip
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Early one morning, a single father and widower (John Magaro)––credited as Dad––wakes up his perceptive nine-year-old Ella (Molly Belle Wright) and mischievous six-year-old Charlie (Wyatt Solis) and asks them to pack a suitcase as quickly as they can. Everyone is...
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Sundance Review: André Is an Idiot is a Noble Document of a Dumb Decision
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There is an unbridled honesty to André Is an Idiot that is admirable, even if all of it doesn’t really work. It’s a simple, stark subject for a documentary: accomplished advertising creative André Ricciardi neglected to get a colonoscopy at...
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