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Juice Cocktail: Burton Revamps His First Demon There’s no way to reproduce the imaginative awe of Tim Burton’s 1988 idiosyncratic goth YA classic Beetlejuice. Or, for that matter, any of Burton’s exceptionally weird but trailblazing offerings through the 1980s and...

It’s not often the case, but on paper, the 2024 edition of the Venice Film Festival appears poised to outshine the Cannes Film Festival with its lineup of potential high-grade film items. Ahead of the 81st edition’s kickoff on Wednesday,...

After splashing in the Critics’ Week section on the Croisette with Heroes Don’t Die (2019), Aude Léa Rapin returns to another Critics’ Week section this time on the Lido with her sophomore feature, Planète B (aka Planet B.) Starring Adèle...

Known for his debut feature Spaghetti Story (2013), Italian filmmaker Ciro De Caro makes a return visit to the Giornate degli Autori programme this year with Taxi Monamour. After having premiered Giulia back in 2021, this fourth feature film also...

With the Venice Film Festival set to break bread this week we thought it was time to look back at the legit contenders for film awardage that will pounce into the fall season and beyond. We decided to cement our...

Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin will continue to examine relationship woes, lows and highs with a new sophomore feature film packaged with thesps Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona with the backing of the NEON folks. Deadline reports that Michael...

Noomi Rapace is set to have big shoes to fill or perhaps a white sari with blue stripes as she will take on a one-week portrait as Mother Teresa before she became the Mother Teresa we all know. Variety reported...

Last September, we had the first details on what Summer 1993 and Golden Bear winning Alcarràs (read review) filmmaker Carla Simón was cooking up for a third feature. Yesterday, we learned via the Cineuropa folks that production on Romería began...

Last September, we were thrilled to share a small yet significant piece of news: Jasmila Žbanić was preparing a sequel to her acclaimed film in 2020’s Quo Vadis, Aida? (read our ★★★★ star review), which was selected at the Venice...

After winning the Silver Lion for Best Director with Miss Violence (2013), Greek filmmaker Alexandros Avranas returns to the Lido in the Orizzonti section with his latest work. This time, the focus is on a Russian family exiled to Sweden,...