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Radha Subramanyam, CBS Chief Research and Analytics Officer, Dies - "Radha was a true force of nature who passionately championed CBS," says George Cheeks, Paramount’s chair of TV Media The post Radha Subramanyam, CBS Chi...

How the Cinematography of ‘Die My Love’ Reconciles Psychological Horror and Dark Comedy - Director of photography Seamus McGarvey talks about reuniting with filmmaker Lynne Ramsey to find a visual language for Jennifer Lawrence's postpartum melt...

Jodie Foster Knew Her Controversial 2013 Golden Globes Speech ‘Would Be Misinterpreted,’ but ‘I Had to Do It My Way’ - There may never have been an awards acceptance speech like Jodie Foster’s. In 2013, Foster was a veteran of the Oscars and Golden Globes. She’d won two api...

Hana-Kimi Omnibus Vols. 1-3 Review - The beloved shoujo manga still maintains its charm after thirty years, even if the narrative reveals a few old cracks here and there.

Nikon Has Quietly Released the Perfect Kit Zoom Lens Update For Your Z-Mount Cameras - Well, perhaps the best new kit lens for the Nikon Z5 II is here. Nikon has just announced a new all-in-one zoom lens that is quite powerful, yet still ve...

Ashton Kutcher Leads a Sinister Beauty in Ryan Murphy’s ‘The Beauty’ - The new trailer for The Beauty drops a chilling glimpse of Ryan Murphy’s latest FX series. It shows a world where runway glamour masks a deadly virus. Th...

Five Frames From ? - What movie is this?

Hamnet ★★ - Released: 9 January 2025 Director: Chloe Zhao Starring: Paul Mescal, Jessie Buckley, Joe Alwyn There are many films out there, try as they might, that at...

Chaz Ebert to Guest on Steve Dale’s Booth 46 Podcast Live at Petterino’s - Today, January 7th, 2026, at 5pm CST, Chaz Ebert will join WGN's Steve Dale for a guest appearance on his podcast, Booth 46.

Colonialism Unveiled: Women, Race, and Orientalism in the Conquest of Algiers - by Kai Mora

The Best Films of 2025 As Chosen By Some of Its Key Directors - As 2025 unfolded, returning to the ritual of asking filmmakers about the films that moved them feels both fragile and necessary. This exercise appears days...

Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials Trailer: Mia McKenna Bruce goes on the hunt for a killer - Netflix has unveiled a new trailer for ‘Seven Dials,’ its upcoming three-part Agatha Christie adaptation. England, 1925. At a glittering country house pa...

Everybody To Kenmure Street to open GFF by Amber Wilkinson - 2026-01-07 11:02:20+00:00 - [image: Everybody To Kenmure Street] Everybody To Kenmure Street Photo: Courtesy of Glasgow Film Festival The UK premiere of documentary Everybody To Ke...

כסטודנט באוניברסיטת בן גוריון: עברתם את הגבול - כשחזרתי לשגרת הלימודים באוניברסיטת בן־גוריון באוקטובר 2025, לאחר תקופת מילואים בעזה, נחשפתי לראשונה לדיון הסוער סביב חזרתו להוראה של ד”ר סבסטיאן בן דניאל, ...

Mr. Hoshino Runs Again Today, Last Note, Attack on Titan The Movie: THE LAST ATTACK, All You Need is Kill, Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, Japanese Film Trailers -

2026: Year of the Horse - early days! The post 2026: Year of the Horse appeared first on Neil Young's Film Lounge.

The Misfits - [John Huston • 1961]

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Viewing in 2025 - 2025 proved to be my most restricted year’s viewing in terms of cinema visits with only twelve films seen. The bulk of my viewing was therefore only via st...

The Double Standard Current Regime -

The P.O.W. - A microbudget antiwar picture that received a limited release, *The P.O.W.* is presented as a nonfiction portrait of Howie Kaufman, a Vietnam v...

Cinema Romantico 2026 Movie Preview: THRILLERS ONLY - As the moniker suggests, Cinema Romantico’s annual THRILLERS ONLY movie preview is limited in scope by design. We are not attempting to steer you toward al...

Dry Leaf - Director Alexandre Koberidze camera on the set DRY LEAF B ...

SUNDAY TWEET - 'CARRIE' IN-JOKE IN 'POLTERGEIST III' - [image: https://www.angelfire.com/de/palma/poltergeist3tweet.jpg]

What I've Caught Up With, December 2025 Part 2 - When it comes to catching up on television, I knocked out some big shows in December. These include Batman: The Animated Series and the follow-up, The New ...

Blu-Ray Review: Six Black Horses (1962). - Directed by Harry KellerProduced by Gordon KayWritten by Burt KennedyDirector Of Photography: Maury Gertsman, ASCFilm Editor: Aaron Stell, ACEMusic Supervi...

Recalled: Amnesia - Past, Present, and Future - In the movies, it never bodes well when a rich woman (Seo Ye-ji) wakes up in a hospital with amnesia and doesn't recognize her dashing, mysterious husban...

How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2025) Review - A tender, beautifully observed coming of age film that turns a summer of illness, fear, and first connection into a quietly powerful meditation on time, ...

Blog Is Dead? - Welcome to 2026. I've been quietly blogging for the past few months, largely just so I have a creative outlet outside of work. Despite my continued compu...

International Sampler (GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI) - *From the **Chicago Reader **(March 17, 2000). I’m delighted that Criterion invited me to retool this review for a new edition of this film in 2020. In s...

THROWBACK THURSDAY / NOIR CITY 14 (2016): Humoresque (1946)—Eddie Muller’s Introduction - I first saw *Humoresque (1946)* projected large at the Castro Theatre at the 14th edition of Noir City (2016) and never got around to transcribing Eddie ...

Borderwalker: The Homelands of Vinland Saga - We are, each of us, mearcstapas, navigating the borders between lands. Home, in Vinland Saga, extends beyond geopolitics and ancestry. Whenever geographi...

Having Enough Time - There are nights when it seems like L.A. goes on forever. A city without end. A future that stretches into infinity. And no matter how far you drive, you ...

Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein’s Two-Volume Soundtrack for ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 - Everything that has a beginning has an end, and for all you Stranger Things fans, it all comes down to this. Tonight is the series finale (both at home and...

Films That I Saw: December 2025 - 2025 sucks. There is no other way to say it. The year sucked and I am glad it is almost over as the past few months have been awful. Dealing with sycop...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 149: The 2025 Year in Review with Rachel - Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode! *Tr**eat yourself or a loved one this holida...

Acclaimed Palestinian Actor and Filmmaker, Mohammed Bakri (1954 – 2025), dies at the age of 72 - Mohammed Bakri died last week at the age of 72. He was a well-regarded actor of film and theater and a documentary film director. In his memory, I woul...

The Event Horizon of Music: A Manifesto on Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven - by Dennis Polifroni Illustrations by Dennis Polifroni The Event Horizon of Music: A Manifesto on Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven In response to a rather loud p...

The Best NYC Repertory Screenings of 2025 - Past present: highlights from a year of traversing the city’s ever-burgeoning repertory film landscape

Movies and Dramas Added Today 2026/01/07 - Law of Lines (Korean Drama, 2026) Rectangle, Triangle (Korean Movie, 2025)

Evan McGarvey's take on Pluribus - I enjoyed Evan McGarvey's analysis of *Pluribus*, my favorite TV show of the moment.

FQ 79.2 Winter 2025 - FQ‘s latest issue features free articles and great reads! https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/2 From the Editor Editor’s NotebookJ. M. Tyree Features Mo...

437. Predator: Badlands – All-ien 2025 (#—) - Dan Trachtenberg's *Predator: Badlands*, with Jess Dunne and Emma Kiely. At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of best movies of all time on ...

David and Wes - Kristin here– Loyal readers of this blog checking back at intervals in the hope of finding a new entry will not have found one for quite some time now. Ind...

eVent® Fabric – Vải công nghệ chống thấm đỉnh cao trong giày và trang phục outdoor - Trong thế giới outdoor, khi nói đến vải chống thấm – thoáng khí cao cấp, ngoài Gore-Tex nổi tiếng, chắc chắn không thể bỏ qua eVent® Fabric. Đây là loại ...

23rd Annual Contemporary Israeli Voices - The series this year will continue to explore the most updated, diverse, innovative, creative, and fascinating Israeli Voices. The series will be inaugurat...

Hello Again - Hey, everybody! I can't imagine anyone is still checking this blog, but just in case someone is I feel like it's about time I announced here that I have ...

Waxing Gibbous: Luigi Cozzi's BLOOD ON MELIE'S MOON (2016) - Once the psychic fell out of her seance chair, and threw up green ectoplasm that turned into a book after white-masked magician zapped her through her cry...

Film School Rejects is Seeking New Ownership - After nearly two decades of operating independently, FSR is now for sale.

SEAN BAKER'S (AND MIKEY MADISON'S) ANORA - Way back in May it was that Patty, Emma and I drove to the SEE Film Multiplex in Bremerton to take in *I Saw the TV Glow*, and while there I took a ...

Weekend Box Office: TERRIFIER 3 Unseats JOKER FOLIE A DEUX For Top Spot -

RBC EMERGING ARTIST Alicia K. Harris Premieres Short Film at TIFF - 2023-2025 RBC Emerging Artist, Alicia K. Harris recently premiered her latest short film, On a Sunday at Eleven, at the 2024 Toronto International Film F...

The Timorous Bellboys - Note: This article originally appeared on a site devoted to comparing two different versions of the same story. I decided to discontinue the site because t...

Capsule Review: MISSON: POSSIBLE, Slapdash Spy Action-Comedy Lacks Spark - *By Pierce Conran* Mission: Possible is a third-rate spy action-comedy starring Kim Young-kwang and Lee Sun-bin as a mismatched duo who both pretend to b...

BAMBOO BOARD GAME REVIEW - Happiness, used to be loneliness and loneliness ruled my world. Then along came BAMBOO to allow me to appease spirts, decorate houses and generally make ...

Blu-ray Review: Claude Chabrol’s LA CEREMONIE - That a filmmaking giant like Claude Chabrol remains the most critically neglected member of the Cahiers du Cinema faction of the French New Wave in 2023 is...

Telluride '23: The Royal Hotel - **½/**** starring Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, James Frecheville, Hugo Weaving written by Kitty Green & Oscar Redding directed by Kitty Green by Walter C...

Happy Birthday Elliott Gould - Happy Birthday to one of the all-time greats and one of the coolest of the cool Elliott Gould. From my 2019 New Beverly interview with Elliott Gould about ...

Summer 2023 Blu-ray/4K Ultra Consumer Guide - Equipment: Sony UBP-X800 multi-region 4K player, Sony KD50X690E display, Yamaha RXV-385 A/V receiver. Angel Face (Warner Archive Blu-ray) Of all the amour ...

Japanese star Dean Fujioka Produces and stars in the cult film ‘Pure Japanese’ - Japanese actor/singer/multi-lingual culture star Dean Fujioka produces and stars in a brand new cult film ‘Pure Japanese’ which is out now globally via

The 25th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival With Victor Morton - Three years of absence from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival has only left a longing in Peter's heart. And while *The Cinephiliacs* remains on perma...

PERRY MASON: THE CASE OF THE SAUSALITO SUNRISE - Terence Towles Canote at *A Shroud of Thoughts* is hosting *The 8th Annual Favourite TV Show Episode Blogathon*. The popular blogathon is running from ...

Baruch Dayan HaEmet - I am heartbroken to tell you that Karen, my wife of 44 years, passed away this from pancreatic cancer. I and our two daughters, Leda and Aliza, were by her...

Maybe LOVE, ACTUALLY is…About British Sexual Insecurity? - by D.K. Latta Does the world need yet another Love, Actually hot-take? Sure. Like tinsel — can there ever be too much? I like Love, Actually and usually re...

National Silent Movie Day: Manhandled (1924) - Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, is National Silent Movie Day. New York City's beloved Film Forum is celebrating with a screening of Allan Dwan's 1924 silent...

Girls in Film (GIF) South Africa and National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) : Join the Conversation - How to get your film funded - *Girls in Film (GIF) South Africa and National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) : Join the Conversation - How to get your film funded* GiF SOUTH AFRICA x ...

Manhunter - I would be lying if I did not confess that, despite my lifelong interest in true crime and dark subjects in general, I oftentimes get an instantaneou...

From ‘Delhi Crime’ to ‘Fifty,’ Breaking Down the Odds to Win at the International Emmys - This year’s crop of Intl. Emmy nominees across categories feature strong and diverse showings for series and performers alike. Here, Variety breaks down th...

Best of 2019: The 13 Best Films of the Year - by Tony Dayoub It's Oscar Day! No predictions. Here, for your consideration, are my top films of 2019 followed by the winners of the respective polls I p...

1/16 Make My Day at the Wex - January 16, I’ll be giving a book talk at the Wexner Center in Columbus and introducing a screening of the 1986 movie River’s Edge. Read more…

Summer break - Hey everyone, For the first time since I started this blog in 2012, I will be taking a break! See you back on August 22nd. Best, Kinofrau

What to do if ICE shows up at your door? - ¿Qué hacer si ICE aparece en su puerta? - Believe it or not, when it comes to ICE agents, you have rights. Here's some advice should you have the misfortune of encountering them. - Lo creas o no, c...

LIT WINDOW - My creative wing. A selection of work follows. I WISH YOU WOULD (2020, 26'25") is a short film about Stanley Strunk and his first, rocky day out in the...

Top 5 Movies Based on True Stories - Dragons, zombie walkers and mythical super heroes are all integral parts of successful modern films and TV shows. Despite the allure of these characters ...

Everybody Knows (Todos lo saben Spain-France-Italy 2018) - Everybody Knows opened the Cannes competition in 2018 to mixed reviews (although better than usual for the opening film) and it has taken some time to get ...

All Inclusive – Fabien Onteniente - It’s sad to see actors of the calibre of Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko and Maiwenn on screen in a film with as little merit as All Inclusive – the l...

WINTER OF DISCONTENT: Puppet on a Chain - In an otherwise balanced article for *The Spectator* on the Wilma Montesi murder case*, Alexander Chancellor refers to Piero Piccioni as “a sleazy jazz ...

A Farewell to Ferdy - By Roderick Heath Long ago, in the dimly-remembered time of legend and chivalry that was 2006, my friend Marilyn Ferdinand asked me if I wanted to contribu...

The Virgin Suicides: “They Hadn’t Heard Us Calling” - [image: Current_29336id_295_large] Sofia Coppola adapts Jeffrey Eugenides’s acclaimed novel with an impressionistic style that evokes the private melanchol...

Exploring Captivity: Some films to look out for at this year's DOKer Festival - DOKer is taking place in April this year and the opening film will be shown this evening (April 13th). A festival which sees a refocus back on films fro...

Signing off - juvenilecinephile: I am writing this to just inform my readership and whatever following that I have that after the Oscars, Sunday, March 4th, 2018, I am...

Jean Harlow, Mary Dees, and SARATOGA - I watched SARATOGA again last night for the first time in years and still found it very depressing. It is so sad to watch Harlow, clearly weak and listless...

The 'Momentum' of Yamada Ryosuke: Idol, Actor, Entertainer - How is he? [Part 2/3] - *There are plenty of articles dealing with the question - what makes a good actor? In Part 2 of our Yamada Ryosuke 'Momentum' article, we ask the questio...

DVD Review: Tag - ★★★☆☆ Mitsuko (Reina Triendl) is on a school bus with her friends when an invisible force rips off the top of the bus, severing all but Mitsuko in half. Ru...

New Zvyagintsev movie 'Loveless' to compete for Oscar from Russia - Russian Oscar committee decided to suggest this movie for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Each of Zvyagintsev's movies is a big event in ...

Episode #143: Commentary Track: Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards; 1963) - The cast for episode #143: Stuart Collier Tom Sutpen This episode was recorded June 25, 2017

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Cinematography: All That Heaven Allows - *ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS* (1955) *Director:* Douglas Sirk *Cinematographer:* Russell Metty One of the most beautifully shot films, I believe, is Douglas ...

Quick Takes: A Matter of Time - Is there a longer cut of *A Matter of Time* (1976) hiding somewhere in a vault in Italy, waiting to be restored? The last film from the masterful Vincen...

At 30, Merchant-Ivory's "Maurice" Has Only Gained in Power - Maurice is the overlooked middle child in Merchant Ivory's trio of E.M. Forster adaptations, sandwiched between the lighthearted mainstream hit A Room With...

Lev Kulidzhanov - Prestuplenie i nakazanie AKA Crime and Punishment (1969) - [image: 29f7c043f76a2bde437fd0d52a185152] Plot Synopsis This Russian adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment packs nearly every pivotal event fr...

2013--The Year in Review - 2013 was a fantastic year for movies. Its prime entry was the eventual winner of the Best Picture Oscar, British director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave-...

SOMEDAY THIS WAR'S GONNA END - *A second review requested by Patton with thanks for contributing twice to the Second Quinquennial Antagony & Ecstasy ACS Fundraiser.* How in the name of ...

The Best Wrestling Matches of 2016 (15-1) - Continuing from yesterday's post, read on as I count down my favorite wrestling matches of the year. 15. Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Naomichi Marufuji IWGP H...

Candy (1968) - *Ewa Aulin*, star of *Deadly Sweet* and *Death Laid an Egg*, plays the eponymous *Candy*; a naive, somewhat gormless, sexually accommodating teenager who...

Nanni Morretti’s latest film opens across the country - Nanni Moretti’s highly acclaimed film “Mia Madre” opens across the country today. To put it simply, this film is a piece of art and is not to be missed. ...

The Razor's Edge - *Shenanigans*. Elliot Gould, Tom Skerritt, Donald Sutherland Those of you who think that movies are entirely a visual medium, and that the script is noth...