The sweet spot for many of the best films of the year, arriving before the final month of 2024, November is packed with robust offerings of Cannes, Berlinale, and fall festival highlights, along with must-see documentaries, and even a major studio movie or two. 17. Dream Team (Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn; Nov. 15) Following […]
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In Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2, Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult) finds himself in an unenviable position: not only was he selected for jury duty, but something odd occurs during the murder trial’s opening statements. Details surrounding the night of the murder begin to trigger memories for him. First, he realizes he was in the same bar […]
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Kicking off November 8 in Estonia, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (aka PÖFF) is a strong showcase for independent voices in international cinema. One premiere on our radar is Lina Lužytė and Nerijus Milerius’ Jōhatsu, which explores the Japanese phenomenon of deliberate disappearance, making for a chilling Lithuanian thriller featuring cinematography by Vytautas Katkus […]
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Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss the transformation of London’s Scala cinema from an underground movie theater into an icon of cult film and counterculture.
Like much of the jazz that soundtracks it, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat doesn’t hold your hand. From the start, the film unleashes a frenetic, almost overwhelming, visual language. It’s a visual language that, along with the phenomenal titular soundtrack, makes the two and a half hour documentary riveting from start to finish. Archival snippets of musicians accompanied by text informing us of the musicians’ names and song titles blast on the screen to introduce the many iconic jazz tracks of the soundtrack. White, thick, block lettered text against black screens offers information, quotes, and statistics from primary and secondary sources, with attributions for quotes in the top left and source citations nestled under the relevant text. Footage from political speeches, television interviews, previously classified…
“I guess you could call that instinct – or insanity,” states the director-writer-environmental activist Josh Fox about his compulsion to build a high platform in the middle of the Pennsylvania forest where he’d gone to convalesce from long Covid. Later, […]
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Laucy Hale stars in Laura Murphy’s (Awkwafina is Nora From Queens) upcoming comedy thriller, F Marry Kill. Released by Lionsgate and produced by BuzzFeed Studios you can catch the flick in select theaters and on VOD/digital on December 6th. The official trailer has just dropped, so check it out down below. When true-crime junkie Eva Vaugh (Lucy Hale) is shoved into the dating app world by her besties on her 30th birthday, she suddenly finds herself at the center of a real-life murder case. As new details about the murders are revealed on her favorite podcast, she realizes that one of the three men she’s dating could be the infamous “Swipe Right Killer” terrorizing the city! Now it’s up to Eva and…
