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NYC Weekend Watch: Tom Gunning, Josef von Sternberg, Only Angels Have Wings & More
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageTom Gunning is celebrated in a weekend-long series featuring M on 35mm, Hal Hartley’s Flirt, and an avant-garde program; films by Buster Keaton and Renny Harlin...
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The Damned Trailer: Roberto Minervini Heads West in Cannes Winner Arriving This May
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A filmmaker whose work always renders as thrillingly intimate and alive, Roberto Minervini (Stop the Pounding Heart, What You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire?) took another unexpected turn in his latest film. The Damned, which picked up the...
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HAVOC Review: Gareth Edwards’ Take on Heroic Bloodshed Reaps Bloody Rewards
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Tom Hardy is Walker, a bent detective in a nondescript American city, fighting his way through the criminal underworld. Walker is turning his city inside out, searching for the son of a corrupt politician with whom he has had past...
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Havoc Review: Gareth Evans Retreads The Raid in Bone-Crunching, Familiar Actioner
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Tom Hardy simultaneously fights corrupt cops and the Triad from the director of The Raid is, on paper, a pretty amazing pitch. Marrying Hardy’s gruff pivot back to genre fare––i.e. MobLand––after a number of years in the Venom wilderness with...
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‘Havoc’ Review: Gareth Evans’s Plodding Neo-Noir Is Nearly Redeemed by Its Killer Finish
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If only the entirety of the film displayed the ferocious sense of purpose of its final act. The post ‘Havoc’ Review: Gareth Evans’s Plodding Neo-Noir Is Nearly Redeemed by Its Killer Finish appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Brussels 2025: Highlights and Award Winners from the 9th BIF Market Industry Showcase
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In the shadow of Brussels’ iconic Atomium, the BIF Market, running in conjunction with the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, celebrated its ninth edition last week, hosting no fewer than 50 projects in various stages of development across a five-day...
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Calgary Underground 2025 Review: TWO WOMEN, Modern Remake of Quebec Sex Comedy
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A tiny camera move during a scene at a Montreal Canadiens hockey game demonstrates what good direction can do: the storytelling happens via the camera itself, revealing the gag (which I will not) and surprising the audience with something possible...
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YADANG: THE SNITCH Review: Informant Turns Against Corrupt Cop
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Kang Ha-neu, Yoo Hae-jin, Park Hae-joon, Ryu Kyung-soo, and Chae Won-bin star in director Hwang Byeong-gug's so-so drug thriller. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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OXY MORONS: Release Date Announced For Dark Comedy That Takes Shots at Big Pharma
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Our friends at Entertainment Squad have announced that Sarah Cayce dark comedy, Oxy Morons, will have an on-demand and digital release on June 10th. Considering the state of things in privatized healthcare in some countries it is terribly relative at...
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Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk Sinners
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Two critics talk Coogler.
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