On three documentaries from this year’s Chicago International Film Festival.
As 2024 winds down, like most cinephiles, we’re looking to get our eyes on titles that may have slipped under the radar or simply gone unseen, so—as we do each year—we’re sharing a rundown of the best titles available to watch at home. Curated from the Best Films of 2024 So Far list we published for the […]
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A writer went to Iowa City for the Refocus Film Festival and Iowa City Book Festival, and reports back.
10 horror movies you might not have known that Roger Ebert loved for spooky season.
AFI Fest Review: My Favourite Cake Finds an Autumnal Romance Blooming Under Iranian Authoritarianism
Autumnal romance blooms in My Favourite Cake, a film about seeking passion in life and being bold enough to act when opportunities arise. The directors are Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, a duo whose previous work, Ballad of a White Cow, pointed to excessive measures in the Iranian legal system. Their latest has a lighter […]
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This year, director Yamashita Nobuhiro (Linda, Linda, Linda, Tamako in Moratorium) was the guest of honor at the Camera Japan Film Festival in Rotterdam. The programme showed no less than five films by him, all of which were released in the past year. Three of those ended up in the festival’s audience top ten. Two of those were in the top five. And one of them… was the festival’s audience favorite this year. That winner was the comedy-drama Karaoke Iko!, the international title of which is Let’s Go Karaoke! Based on a popular 2020 manga by Wayama Yama, the story tells of an unlikely friendship between high-school choirboy Satomi, and Kyouji, a gangster in urgent need of singing lessons. Kyouji’s yakuza boss is holding an…
As a filmmaker, you always want to have irons in the fire. So after an earlier in the year mention of making a Nat King Cole biopic the subject of his directorial debut, we now learn that Colman Domingo will move onto the real life love affair between film star Kim Novak and singer/dancer and film star Sammy Davis Jr. circa 1957. Sydney Sweeney and David Jonsson topline the project. Deadline breaks the news that Miramax has been fast-tracking Scandalous to time it when Domingo and Sweeney complete Season 3 of the HBO series Euphoria. Sweeney produces with Tani Cohen and Bobby Roth.… Read the rest
Stunt Coordinator JoJo Eusebio is making the move to the big chair and beloved actor Ke Huy Quan will be there to help! Eusebio is directing their first feature film, a new action film called Love Hurts, with Quan in the lead as a mild-mannered realtor pulled back into a world of hitmen and gang lords. Quan takes the lead for the first time in this new era of theirs and is joined by Ariana DeBose, Daniel Wu, Sean Astin, Mustafa Shakir, Lio Tipton, Rhys Darby, Marshawn Lynch, and André Eriksen. Eusebio directs a screenplay written by Matthew Murray & Josh Stoddard and Luke Passmore. The action movie was produced by 87North, a trusted brand in the action genre. Eusebio worked in stunts…
The rise of Lance Oppenheim continues unabated: within 12 months of Spermworld and Ren Faire comes the news he’ll be directing Primetime, a feature backed by A24 and Robert Pattinson’s Icki Eneo Arlo. Per sources (including some from which this writer’s heard directly), Ajon Singh’s script takes direct inspiration from NBC’s To Catch a Predator […]
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Caroline Lindy’s rom-com is a delightful beauty until it decides to be a beast.
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