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THE STORY – Allegro Pastell tells the story of a long-distance relationship that is almost flawless. At its core lie the individual perceptions of two lovers who have mostly had things go their way and who seem to have everything under control....

The Makeup Artists & Hair Stylists Guild (MUAHS) winners have been announced, representing the best in the field for 2025. Here are this year’s winners… FEATURE-LENGTH MOTION PICTURE Best Contemporary Make-Up“Bugonia” (Focus Features) – Torsten Witte“Eddington” (A24) – Colin Penman,...

For this week’s main podcast review, Katie Johnson, Josh Parham, Cody Dericks, Giovanni Lago, and Daniel Howat join me to discuss the latest film from Emerald Fennell, “Wuthering Heights,” starring Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes, and Ewan Mitchell. Adapted...

THE STORY – In an opulent villa beneath the Catalonian sun, American siblings Jack, Ed, Anna, and Robert wallow in isolation and their inherited fortune, eschewing the demands of their blind father, and seeking love and validation through each other and...

THE STORY – Beirut, Lebanon. Suzanne gets to know Osmane after saving him from a racist attack. Osmane is Sudanese, young, undocumented and searching for a better future. Suzanne is a middle-class widow with Palestinian roots, a mother of two adult...

THE STORY – Behind the walls of a young offender institution, Troy (Tut Nyuot) is thrust into a brutal world of gangs, loyalty and violence. From the moment he arrives, he is tested. Paired with a volatile cellmate, Troy is forced...

THE STORY – Brazil, 1884. Tita, Muanda, Lena and Francisca, handmaidens to four pupils at a countryside boarding school, dream of freedom just to make it through the day. When an ill-advised romance puts Lena’s life in danger, their dreams of...

THE STORY – In Nigeria, a group of teenagers have founded the collective: The Critics. With the most basic resources but an abundance of cinephile passion, they conjure handmade sci-fi spectacles: their own village becomes the set, the green screen is...

THE STORY – Downeast Maine is a narrow stretch of rugged coastline chiselled between the forest and the sea. Here, boys are shaped by the brutal winters, by their harvesting of the ocean’s bounty, and by the rigid codes of their...

THE STORY – Sixteen-year-old Ilay aimlessly drifts through the outskirts of Berlin. His mother, Maria, lies on her deathbed, cared for by Ana, a Mexican palliative nurse. Refusing to accept his mother’s impending death, Ilay retreats further into himself, increasingly shutting...