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Jane Campion: The Masterclass At The Museum of Cinema in Turin

The two-time Oscar winner for The Piano and The Power of the Dog  received the Stella della Mole Award during a Masterclass held on October 1st, where she shared her thoughts on cinema and the way she nurtures her craft. The session was followed by a screening of The Portrait of a Lady, whereas the…

‘Scream 7’ with Neve Campbell To Debut in February 2026

©Courtesy of Dimention Films  Mavens of the macabre will have to wait until Friday the 27th of February, 2026 to watch the seventh installment in the Scream franchise. It will be the 30th anniversary of the series, which has been chilling audiences since 1996. According to Paramount Pictures, Scream 7, Neve Campbell will be returning…

NYFF/ Nickel Boys Review: RaMell Ross Triumphs in Daring Adaptation

It’s in the glimpses tragic and poetry happen. In the beginning of RaMell Ross’s extraordinary first narrative feature Nicke Boys, a realization of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, which opens the New York Film Festival, the filmmaker creates a world unlike any other. A child’s hand holds a leaf in the grass, a…

Babygirl | Official Trailer HD | A24 : Starring Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson

Move over, It’s a Wonderful Life—here comes Babygirl. On Christmas Day, both the naughty and the nice will enjoy a special treat in their bluestockings: the release by A24 of Halina Reijn’s Babygirl. Described as an “erotic thriller,” the feature stars Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson who are engaged in a BDSM relationship. (For the…

James Dean Biopic to Focus on Reported Gay Romance

Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis – © Corbis. All Rights Reserved. A feature film that will explore the personal life of James Dean is currently being developed by writer-director Guy Guido. The filmmaker has acquired the rights to late author William Bast’s 2006 memoir, Surviving James Dean, and plans to adapt it into a biopic of the…

The Wild Robot : Press Conference With Actor Lupita Nyong’o, Director Chris Sanders and Composer Chris Bowers

@Courtesy of DreamWorks Animation The Wild Robot : The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot–ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an…

NYFF/The Seed of the Sacred Fig Review: Iranian Filmmaker Thrives in Boiling Domestic Drama/Thriller

©Courtesy of Neon To avoid an eight-year prison sentence for making his latest film The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof fled his native country to begin a life in exile. In two hours, he made the decision to embark on the risky escape on foot across the mountains. Two weeks later his film…

Boise Film Festival Announces Lineup of Films and Events for Debut in October

Boise Film Festival announces lineup of films and events for debut in October (October 10-13) 20th Anniversary screening of Gavin O’Connor’s Miracle opens the film festival Film festival award winners on the inaugural schedule include Silje Evensmo Jacobsen’s A New Kind of Wilderness Zoë Eisenberg’s Chaperone, Alison Tavel’s Resynator, and Alonso Ruizpalacios’ La Cocina Miracle…

Bane and Deathstroke Movie Being Developed at DC Studios

Bane and Deathstroke, two of Batman‘s biggest archnemeses in the comic book series, are set to appear together in a new movie for DC Studios, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Matthew Orton, a scribe on the upcoming Captain America: Brave New World film, is developing a script for the feature for the James Gunn and Peter…

Paul Schrader: The Masterclass at Milan’s Prada Foundation

The Prada Foundation hosted — within its Cinema Godard — a Masterclass with the accomplished filmmaker Paul Schrader. During this occasion, the multi-hyphenate cineaste retraced his experience as film critic, screenwriter and director. Italy had previously homaged Schrader through the years, with Masterclasses and accolades at the Museum of Cinema in Turin, at the Lucca Film Festival and…

Why Frank Darabont Cames Out of Retirement to Direct ‘Stranger Things’?

© Darkstar Pictures Frank Darabont, who directed The Shawshank Redemption in 1994, is coming out of retirement to direct several episodes of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things. Created by brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, Stranger Things debuted in 2016 on Netflix, where the final episodes will appear in 2025. The Shawshank Reddemption, an…