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Film at Lincoln Center and Dance Films Association Announce 50th Dance on Camera Festival, February 11-14

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DANCE FILMS ASSOCIATION AND FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCE LINEUP FOR  THE 50TH DANCE ON CAMERA FESTIVAL, FEBRUARY 11-14 This year’s program will highlight the festival’s 50-year history while looking to the future of dance films and the festival’s next 50 years. New York, NY (January 10, 2022) – Dance Films Association and…

Sundance Film Festival Review- Searching Intimacy with, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.”

A favorite talking point of mine is that too many people confuse lust for love. Good Luck To You, Leo Grande (which from this point further will be mentioned simple as Good Luck… for brevities sake) in no way connects to this idea. But, in a similar vein, it looks at intimacy in a way that breaks it…

Exclusive Sundance Film Festival Video Interview: Director Rory Kennedy on Crafting ‘Downfall: The Case Against Boeing’

Once considered the best in the business, with the popular saying, “If it’s not Boeing, I’m not going,” the aircraft manufacturing giant experienced a considerable fall from grace when two of its 737 MAX planes crashed within six months of each other. While Boeing initially blamed Indonesian and Ethiopian pilots for not being well-trained and…

TV Review – ‘Euphoria’ Season 2 is Just as Gripping and Intense as Ever

In June 2019, season one of HBO’s Euphoria presented a staggering, deeply interesting look at high school life today, based on an Israeli series of the same name that premiered several years earlier. Star Zendaya took home an Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series, becoming the youngest performer ever to win the…

Pete Davidson Cast in The Purge Director James DeMonaco’s New Horror Thriller The Home

Pete Davidson has been cast in Miramax’s upcoming horror thriller, The Home, which will be directed by The Purge series creator, James DeMonaco. The Saturday Night Live star is set to play Max in the film, whose production is set to begin later this month, Deadline is reporting. The Home will follow Max, a troubled…

The Top 10 Best Films Of 2021

It’s New Year’s Eve, it’s time to look back at the past year in cinema and select the top 10 best films of 2021. We picked our favorites, so check out to see what we selected. To pay homage to filmmakers and actors, we don’t dare to rank them. Abe Friedtanzer  ・CODA ・Malcolm and Marie…

Film Review – ‘Parallel Mothers’ is a Dependably Involving and Resonant Story from Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar is a filmmaker who has been regaling audiences with his fantastical and deeply engrossing stories for decades. Among his most celebrated works are Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, Talk to Her, and Volver. His ability to flesh out the inner thoughts and characteristics of seemingly ordinary…

C’mon, C’mon : Q&A with Director Mike Mills

Synopsis : Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) and his young nephew (Woody Norman) forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in this delicate and deeply moving story about the connections between adults and children, the past and the future, from writer-director Mike Mills. Q&A with Director Mike Mills on “C’mon, C’mon” (Q&A was…

Indie Spirit Awards 2022 Reveals Full List of Nominations

The nominations for the 2022 Film Indie Spirit Awards were announced this morning by actresses Beanie Feldstein, Regina Hall and Naomi Watts in a livestream broadcast.  The organization publicly shared its picks for the best independent movies and television shows of the year after the Golden Globe Awards and Critics Choice Awards released their nominees…

Don’t Look Up : Press Conference with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence with Actors Scott Mescudi, Tyler Perry, Jonah Hill, Meryl Streep, Writer/Director/Producer, Adam McKay

Synopsis : Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system. The problem: it’s on a direct collision course with Earth. The other problem? No one really seems to care. Turns out warning mankind about a…