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“The Furious”: Exclusive Interview with Lead Actor Xie Miao on the Best Action Film in the Last Decade

Check out more of our YouTube Channel  Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo’s program called “Morning…

Elle(“Legally Blonde”Prequel” | Official Trailer | Prime Video : Starring Lexi Minetree

©Courtesy of Amazon Prime With all eight episodes premiering on July 1st, Amazon Prime Video has released the official trailer for their prequel series “Elle,” based on the “Legally Blonde” film. The series follows title character Elle (Lexi Minetree) through her high school years. That year, we encountered her as a newcomer in the chaotic…

19th Annual Japan Cuts : Festival of New Japanese Film Headlined By Actress Suzu Hirose And Director Hirokazu Koreeda

Suzu Hirose in A Pale View of Hills © 2025 A Pale View of Hills Film Partners 19TH ANNUAL JAPAN CUTS: FESTIVAL OF NEW JAPANESE FILM HEADLINED BY ACTRESS SUZU HIROSE AND DIRECTOR HIROKAZU KOREEDA North America’s Largest Japanese Film Festival Announces Schedule, Featuring Two Weeks of Contemporary Premieres, Special Guests, and Restored Classics Festival…

Tribeca Festival/ Memorizu Review: A Quietly Beautiful Japanese Meditation on Memory

©Courtesy of Tribeca Festival Our everyday lives are made up of countless small moments that slowly gather over time. Most of them are forgotten because they seem ordinary and insignificant. Lacking the drama of major events, they fade almost as soon as they occur. In great films such as Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” (2023) Jim…

After Oil: Exclusive Video Interview with Director Boima Tucker

Environmental documentaries thrive on their ability to question who stands to benefit — and who is left behind — in the rush toward a green future. That’s certainly true for the new climate feature, After Oil. In the project, filmmaker Boima Tucker explores the uneven realities of the global transition away from fossil fuels. Moving between…

‘The Gas Station Attendant,’ Immigration Is Shown Through A Dual-Perspective

The gaze of second-generation immigrants captures the plight of its forbearers. This is what film director Karla Murthy projects in her documentary The Gas Station Attendant. Through the use of footage from home videos and old recorded tapes, the director and Emmy-nominated producer who began her career working for several news programs on PBS, finds…

Tribeca Festival/ Sad Girlz Review: Swimming Through Silence: A Striking Mexican Debut

© Still from the film by DoP: Rosa Hadit Hernández © Colectivo Colmena Sexual assault remains one of the most urgent and complex issues facing young people today. Despite increased awareness, it is still shrouded in silence, confusion, and contradiction. More troubling still, it often arises not from the outside, but within spaces meant to feel…

“Renoir” : Exclusive Interview with Writer/Director Chie Hayakawa

©Courtesy of Film Movement Renoir : Suburban Tokyo, 1987. Imaginative eleven-year-old Fuki begins her summer break lonely and adrift — her kind, terminally ill father has landed once again in the hospital and her mother, distracted by the inevitability of his diagnosis, hasn’t much time for her daughter. Fuki responds to the situation not with…

Chie Hayakawa’s “Renoir” is Emotionally Complex Coming-of-Age Drama

©Courtesy of Film Movement  Kids always pick up on more than their parents realize. That is especially true of eleven-year-old Fuki Okita. She fully understands that her father Keiji is dying from cancer and that her mother Utako is dealing with it badly. In fact, she often rather awkwardly acknowledges these facts to her increasingly…

Michael Jackson: The Verdict | Official Trailer | Netflix

A new Michael Jackson film has become available for streaming. Titled “Michael Jackson: The Verdict,” it becomes a three-part docuseries exploring the contentious 2005 criminal trial of the legendary singer. This follows a month after the theatrical release of the “Michael” biopic starring Jaafar Jackson, a film that earned approximately $850 million. Today, Netflix subscribers…

“Spider-Noir” : Video Review by Matthew Schuchman

Check out more of our YouTube Channel  Matthew Schuchman : In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early age, he would turn…