©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival Twelve years after her first-feature film bends, the director Flora Lau brought at the Sundance Film Festival – World Cinema Dramatic Competition – LUZ, another psychological drama set in Chongqing and Paris. The main story follows two completely different people: Wei (Xiadong Guo) is trying to reconnect with the daughter…
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival will be wrapping up this weekend, although for those of us covering it virtually, we’ve gotten a bit of a late start. There have been quite a few themes with the movies at this year’s festival, including many films written and directed by actors starring in their own films, as…
©Courtesy of New York Intl Children’s Fest, NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL (NYICFF) ANNOUNCES 2025 FEATURES SLATE AND SHORT FILM PROGRAMS. OPENING NIGHT IS THE U.S. PREMIERE OF ANIMATED BIOPIC HOLA, FRIDA, SUPPORTED BY THE FRIDA KAHLO ESTATE, WITH THE CENTERPIECE SLOT GOING TO THE EAST COAST PREMIERE OF A24’S THE LEGEND OF OCHI,…
©Courtesy of Neon The film “Parasite“, five years after making cinematic history as the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, NEON will be bringing Bong Joon Ho’s critically acclaimed “Parasite” back to theaters with an exclusive IMAX release beginning on February 7th. Bong Joon Ho’s visionary storytelling and masterful…
©Courtesy of PBS Hold Me Close : A chronicle of the power and complexity of the relationship between Corinne and Tiana, two Queer Black women who experience cycles of life’s joys and pains together in the home they share. Directors : Aurora Brachman, LaTajh Simmons-Weaver Producers :Aurora Brachman, LaTajh Simmons-Weaver Executive Producers : Opal Bennett,…
©Courtesy of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science The 2025 Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday. “Emilia Pérez“received the most of 2025 Oscar nominations. The film garnered 13 noms, setting a record for a non-English-language film. That surpasses the previous record holders, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “Roma“, which each earned 10 nominations. Following…
@Courtesy of Universal Pictures Wicked : Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Broadway’s The Color Purple) as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and…
Paramount Pictures’ drama September 5, co-written and directed by Swiss filmmaker Tim Fehlbaum, takes a detailed look at the events of September 5, 1972, when the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany were disrupted by a terrorist action as a Palestinian group kidnapped the Israeli athletes, leading to a 24-hour nightmare. On hand from the United…
©Courtesy of The Golden Princess Shout! Studios is making a major move that is set to excite action film enthusiasts. Shout! Studios has acquired worldwide rights to The Golden Princess movie library, which contains 156 Hong Kong cinema classics that have been MIA from Western markets for decades. The deal, which brings together Hollywood’s independent…
Japan Society announce Obayashi ’80s: The Onomichi Trilogy & Kadokawa Years, running February 7-14, 2025. The teenage symphonies of Nobuhiko Obayashi (1938-2020) are wound in a melancholy nostalgia for a period indelibly lost to time, neatly occupying the inexpressible gap between adolescence and adulthood. Woven through visually expressive fantasias with striking formal experimentation and pop-art boldness, Obayashi’s idiosyncratic…
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