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Disney and Pixar’s “ELEMENTAL” Selected as Closing Film For Cannes Film Festival

PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS RETURNS TO CANNES FILM FESTIVAL WITH ALL-NEW FEATURE FILM “ELEMENTAL” Pixar’s 27th Animated Feature Selected as Closing Film of the 76th Edition of the Festival; World-Premiere Screening to Take Place on May 27 Pixar Animation Studios returns to the globally revered Cannes Film Festival for the world premiere of its all-new feature film “Elemental”…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

April 19, 2023

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“Paint” Review : A Sappy Film About Death and Resurrection in Vermont

Though the first half hour of Brit McAdams’s Paint flows about as fast as maple syrup in January, it’s worth enduring the long, slow drip as the buckets of this sappy, laid-back film inexorably fill with sweetness. Perhaps “bittersweetness” is a more appropriate term, for Paint depicts—albeit with a muted color palette—the saga of one…

Edward Moran

April 5, 2023

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“Murderbot” : The Character Consistently Hits the Right, Snarky Note

©Courtesy of Apple TV + He is a sarcastic robot, much like the ‘bots on MST3K. However, he is much more forgiving of cheesy videos. (Cheesy people? Far less so). All he really wants is to be left alone to watch his soapy space serials. However, he must interact with people, whether he likes it…

Joe Bendel

May 17, 2025

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Richard Linklater’s “NOUVELLE VAGUE” : Teaser Trailer

©Courtesy of Goodfellas Richard Linklater‘s new film, “Nouvelle Vague” (New Wave), is set to be premiered at the Cannes Film Festival competition this Saturday evening and showcases the cinematic style expected from the homage to Jean-Luc Godard‘s 1959 New Wave classic, A Bout de Souffle (Breathless). Richard Linklater is a prolific director who will return…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

May 17, 2025

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Review

Photo by Giles Keyte/Giles Keyte – © 2024 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. In the previous film, Tom Cruise stunned audiences with an unprecedented no-stunt motorcycle jump and skydive off a precipice. The “off-the-wall action” that has become synonymous with the series seems to be alive and well in this film, just like what Tom Cruise…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

May 17, 2025

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Rambo Origin Movie Being Developed by Sisu Director Jalmari Helander

© 1982 Artisan Entertainment (Home Video). All rights reserved. An origin story for celebrated action series, Rambo, titled John Rambo, is currently in development by Sisu director Jalmari Helander, Deadline is reporting. The prequel to the 1982 classic action movie, First Blood, will launch at the Cannes market. The Cannes market is an event that runs…

Karen Benardello

May 16, 2025

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Disney and Pixar’s “ELEMENTAL” Selected as Closing Film For Cannes Film Festival

“Paint” Review : A Sappy Film About Death and Resurrection in Vermont