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Babygirl | Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Fuck Like No One’s Watching: Reijn Delivers Prudent & Provocative Sexual Odyssey “There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating,” wrote Sigmund...
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2025 Sundance: Jianjie Lin, Jorge Thielen Armand & Robert Machoian/Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck Among Selected Shorts
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
57 films selected from a whopping 11,153 submissions (4,909 U.S. submissions and 6,244 international) packed into eight curated Short Film Programs. Among the more notable folks we find Venezuelan Canadian-based filmmaker Jorge Thielen Armand of La Soledad (Venice’s Biennale College...
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Interview: Andrew Garfield – 2024 Red Sea International Film Festival
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
The perfect relationship gets put to the ultimate test in We Live In Time, the latest feature from Brooklyn director John Crowley. Told across three, non-linear timelines, the story follows Tobias (Andrew Garfield) and Almut (Florence Pugh) who find their...
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Interview: Denise Fernandes – Hanami (Red Sea Intl. Film Festival)
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Threading the line between magical realism and potent coming-of-age drama, Denise Fernandes‘ Hanami is an ambitious debut feature. Filming on location in Cape Verde, the picture is unsurprisingly visually impressive as it weaves the story of Nana and her mother...
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Nickel Boys | Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
No Country for Black Men: Ross Reforms the Cinema with Distinctive Adaptation In many ways, Nickel Boys, the narrative debut from director RaMell Ross, feels like an exemplification of ‘it was the best of times, it was the worst of...
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Interview: Xiaoxuan Jiang – To Kill a Mongolian Horse (Red Sea Intl. Film Festival)
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Across the Mongolian steppe, a herdsman confronts climate change, the slow encroachment of gentrification, and a fading way of life in To Kill A Mongolian Horse. Xiaoxuan Jiang‘s debut feature weaves an intimate story around Saina, a non-actor and professional...
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Kraven the Hunter | 2024 Red Sea Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Snack Attack: Kraven The Hunter Is More Empty Calorie Superhero Slop The existential fear among creatives is that one day, artificial intelligence will become so good that a data-generated movie would be indistinguishable from the real thing. Sadly, that day...
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Interview: Mahdi Fleifel – To a Land Unknown (Red Sea Intl. Film Festival)
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
There is a lesson in determination to be found in Danish-Palestinian Mahdi Fleifel‘s latest feature, To A Land Unknown. Remarkably, the film, which spent years in development, and bounced between producers, finally went into production in November 2023 and was...
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2025 Sundance: Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Masterwork ‘April’ Selected for Spotlight Section
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
With only two films selections it looks like Sundance’s Spotlight section is about to be snuffed out but among the pair of films programmed here we find perhaps the best sophomore feature of 2024 in Dea Kulumbegashvili‘s Venice Film Festival...
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2025 Sundance: Hailey Gates, Katarina Zhu & Eva Victor in U.S. Dramatic Comp
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Among the batch of ten 2025 U.S. Dramatic Competition offerings we find the likes of actress Hailey Gates’ feature debut Atropia – produced by Luca Guadagnino (she can be seen in this year’s Challengers), we find Katarina Zhu’s Bunnylovr –...
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