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The 8th Annual Festival of Cinema NYC announces film lineup August 2-11

The 8th Annual Festival of Cinema NYC announces film lineup August 2-11 Ivy Vale’s Out of My Comfort Zone opens the film festival,  and Delfine Paolini’s A Wonderful Way with Dragons makes its World Premiere as the Closing Night selection More World Premieres include Laura Angiulli’s I Know You, Harrison Dillingham’s Mortimer, and Charles Caracciolo’s The Old Ballgame: The QBH Story. North American premieres include Andrey Getov’s Bo Nan Za, Francois…

The Wild Robot : A Wild Vision Featurette

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 orphaned gosling. The Wild Robot stars Academy Award® winner Lupita Nyong’o (Us, The Black Panther franchise) as robot Roz; Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Pedro Pascal (The Last of…

NYAFF Review: Baby Assassins: Nice Days Kills Comedic and Action Beats

©Courtesy of the NYAFF Including humor between mismatched protagonists can often make their battle to survive emotionally-charged, physically demanding obstacles easier in a film. The new Japanese martial arts-driven feature, Baby Assassins: Nice Days, is one such intriguing example. The crime movie intertwines alluring slacker comedy with extreme action beats. The feature serves as the…

Deadpool &Wolverine : The Red Carpet at New York World Premiere

Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Deadpool & Wolverine : Six years after being rejected by the Avengers, Wade Wilson/Deadpool has retired and is now selling used cars. During his birthday party, the TVA (Time Variance Authority) kidnaps and brings him to Mr. Paradox. Deadpool has been offered a…

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Review: The Odd Couple Would Have Liked It…

Photo by 20th Century Studios/Marvel Stud/Courtesy of 20th Century Studio – © 2024 20th Century Studios / © and ™ 2024 MARVEL. Let’s get straight to the point: the entrance of the ‘Merc with a Mouth’ in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – which means Disney, let’s not forget it – didn’t change the character. At…

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN | Official Teaser | Searchlight Pictures : Starring Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning

©Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures Searchlight Pictures has dropped a teaser for highly anticipated Baby Dylan’s biopic, A Complete Unknown which Stars Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Elle Fanning as his girlfriend, Sylvie Russo (whom Mangold confirms is simply a renamed version of Dylan’s real-life girlfriend of that era, Suze Rotolo), Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, and Edward…

‘Wayne Brady: The Family Remix’ Exclusive Video Interviews

Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel There’s a famous saying that you can’t pick your family, but in the case of actor, comedian, and game show host Wayne Brady, he actually did put together his own blended family. Brady has been a television mainstay for over two decades, having…

NYAFF: ‘90 Years Old – So What?,’ An Inspiring Nonagenarian Tale

NYAFF is now in its 23rd edition, running from July 12th until the 28th. Several films have explored the world of the elderly, such as Granny Prostitutes, but there’s another movie that takes a more playful twist on third age. 90 Years Old – So What? is based on the best-selling essay book that sold over…

Pachinko — Season 2 Official Trailer | Apple TV+ : Starring Lee Minho, Minha Kim, Anna Sawai, Yuh-Jung Youn

©Courtesy of Apple TV+ Apple TV+  has dropped a first trailer for the second season of its award-winning and critically hailed, epic hit drama Pachinko. Told in three languages — Korean, Japanese, and English — and consisting of eight, one-hour episodes, season two of Pachinko will premiere globally on Friday, August 23 with one episode, followed…

Japan Cuts : The Making of a Japanese / Exclusive Interview with Director Ema Ryan Yamazaki

©Courtesy of Japan Cuts The Making of a Japanese : Located in one of Tokyo’s sprawling suburbs, Tsukado is one of the largest public elementary schools in Japan with nearly 1,000 students. In the nation’s unique educational system, children are tasked to run their own school in order to teach communal values and how to play…

Japan Cuts / Retake : Nakano Taps Into Universal Teen Attitudes & Neuroses

©Courtesy of Japan Cuts  There is less parental supervision in this film than you see in an average John Hughes movie. Perhaps as a result, these teens hardly spend any time working or studying during their summer break—maybe a little, but not a lot. However, they are not idle slackers. In fact, they keep quite…