©Courtesy of Netflix In A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, the day starts like any other — but then everything changes. When a single unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible, and how to respond. That’s the nerve-wracking premise of “A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE,” a new thriller directed by…
©M.H,S/TFP Opening Film of CJFC’s Backstreet Cinema Series 2025 9/6/2025 The Tunnel to Summer, The Exit of Goodbyes(2023) 83 minutes, Japanese w/ Eng. Subtitles. CJFC’s first anime — Japan’s scenic countryside and a high school summer on the big screen. Synopsis : The Urashima Tunnel can grant any wish—at a cost. High schooler Kaoru, haunted…
©Courtesy of GKIDS “Linda Linda” is one of the biggest hits from Japan’s most popular punk bands, the Blue Hearts. Yet, this Japanese high school garage band totally makes it their own, despite their new Korean vocalist’s spotty command of the language. A lot of Americans discovered the real band indirectly through this film when…
©Courtesy of Warner Home Video Showrunner, the AI enterprise backed by Amazon, is using Fable, its artificial-intelligence technology, to reconstruct 43 minutes of lost footage from Orson Welles’s classic film The Magnificent Ambersons. The original footage was lost shortly after the movie’s release in 1942 when RKO Films deleted the material. The footage is considered…
Comedy definitely seems to be making a comeback this year, or at least it’s trying to. Going by the recent The Naked Gun and Covino and Marvin’s Splitsville, people are going back to movie theaters, because they want to laugh. Jay Duplass was at the forefront of indie comedy going back to his 2005 film,…
©Courtesy of Focus Features In an interview with IndieWire, filmmaker Gus Van Sant talked about the parallels between his new film, Dead Man’s Wire, and the recent real-life case of Luigi Mangione, who had recently been charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York. Dead Man’s Wire is a crime thriller…
©Courtesy of Netflix Every Benoit Blanc mystery from Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Rian Johnson imparts its own revelation; each tale offers a fresh gospel of intrigue. 2019’s Knives Out introduces the suited detective (played by Daniel Craig) at a cozy New England mansion, where a family’s greed boils over in the wake of its patriarch’s mysterious death. Its…
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 Satellite” at…
The winning film of the Cinema & Arts Award at the 81st Venice Film Festival arrives in the star-spangled nation. Through this documentary, filmmaker Andres Veiel makes a compelling portrait of one of the most controversial women of the 20th century, a filmmaker entangled with the Nazi party: Leni Rifenstahl. Riefenstahl uses a variety of…
©Courtesy of Utopia The trailer for Mike Figgis’ “Megadoc” has been released by Utopia after its Venice premiere. The feature length documentary focuses on Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long journey to create his passion project “Megalopolis“, which he self-financed. Oscar-nominated “Leaving Las Vegas” director Mike Figgis, directs the documentary, which combines archival material, unfiltered cast interviews,…
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