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BBC Throws Up Website Paywall for U.S. Users - Online news and programming from the U.K.’s biggest broadcaster will carry a price for some American fans. BBC Studios and BBC News have launched the “firs...

Live-Action My Special One Film Opens at #6, New Utano☆Princesama Maji LOVE Film Stays at #7 - Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback falls to #8 in its 10th weekend

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‘The Bear’ Season 4 Ending Explained: Who’s Leaving? - After four seasons of financial turmoil, there's hope in sight for the restaurant at the center of the FX comedy-drama The post ‘The Bear’ Season 4 Endin...

‘The Bear’ Review: Season 4 Is Another Sweet, Stirring, and Inconsistent Dish - After a moving but oft-stagnant third season (that ended on "To be continued..."), the second half of FX's award-winning restaurant drama serves up more of...

11 Best Villains of All Time - In a story, villains are as important to heroes as shadow is to light. Without one, the other doesn’t exist. A great villain doesn’t just fight the hero...

Scarecrow - Director Jerry Schatzberg Gene Hackman Schatzberg on the set with Al Pacino and Gene Hackman Vilmos Zsigmond and László Kov...

Fuyu no yume, A Unique Country in Asia, Caniba-san: Itan no Jun’ai, Senkyo to utsu, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Hashira Unite, Japanese Film Trailers -

JAKE SCULLY VISITS TOWER RECORDS' ALL-NIGHT VIDEO SALE - *BODY DOUBLE CLIP INCLUDED IN TRAILER FOR NEW ALEX ROSS PERRY DOC, VIDEO HEAVEN* [image: https://www.angelfire.com/de/palma/bodydoubledivorce.jpg] "Socio-...

Sitaare Zameen Par (2025): Sabka Apna Apna Normal - Priceless things are hard to handle. So are special people. Parents may find it challenging to deal with special children, but such children often share ...

Operation Bogeyman - Jennie Kermode - 19771 - As director Simon Aeppli previously observed in the research project from which this film is descended, the 1970s was a period when people in the British...

G-S-T Review…Tina Romero’s ‘Queens of the Dead’ Has Comedy, Commentary and Heart To Chew On - There’s a lot to love about Tina Romero‘s Queens of the Dead. In fact, the list is almost as long as the receipt for the sequins and shoes purchased by the...

Hopeless: Correct - How bleak can a life be? Writer-director Kim Chang-hoon's riveting feature debut *Hopeless* shows one that's extremely so. 17-year-old Yeon-gyu (Hong Xa-...

Swissx SoilBooster Ramps Up as Global Soil-Carbon Markets Hit Breakthrough Moment - Swissx’s SoilBooster Sampling Drive in Antigua is gaining international relevance as soil-carbon trading shifts from theory to profitable reality. With g...

Liquid Evil - Film: *Prince of Darkness* Format: DVD from New Lenox Public Library through interlibrary loan on basement television. For whatever reason, we have decid...

Diego Calva Eight Times - I can't remember if I did a post about this but you can rent the queer drama *On Swift Horses* from the usual places now -- that's the one that has a lot ...

“We will protect you…” New trailer flies in for ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ - Marvel Studios has launched a new official trailer for the highly anticipated ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps.’ Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 19...

The Film Comment Podcast: GriGris with Malcolm Harris and Anselm Kizza-Besigye - Fire escapes: the acclaimed author joins to discuss Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s 2013 thriller, cinematic portrayals of the climate crisis, and more

Persepolis - [Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi • 2007]

NYC Warnings of False Flag Attack - This is a tell. This is a warning of an attack on New York City. It is presented in a serious call for “evacuation” immediately. The rogue regime has a LON...

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen Legg - by Disha Karnad Jani

Sundance Institute Directors Lab 2025: Andrea Ellsworth - [image: A woman performs the "framing a shot" hand pose.] This month Filmmaker is publishing diaries from writers and directors who attended the 2025 Sunda...

Friendship Is Insane: Eva Victor on “Sorry, Baby” - An interview with the writer-director of A24's latest dramedy.

My Favorite Beach Boys Needle Drops - Brian Wilson died in his sleep on June 11, 2025 at the age of 82. With him, The Beach Boys died too. I mean, yes, The Beach Boys are still active, technica...

My Ten-Best List for SIGHT AND SOUND (2020) - *Submitted to Sight and Sound on October 26, 2020. — J.R.* *Alphabetical order:* *1. L’ANNÉE DERNIÈRE À DACHAU* *(Mark Rappaport)* *2. BOTTLED SONGS: M...

Not a Pretty Picture (1976) - Before launching her long career as a director of mainstream comedies and dramas for both film and television with the 1983 teen romance *Valley...

Birmingham Steps Into The Spotlight With 2025 Birmingham Film + TV Market Expo - Featured Images Credit – Anthony Davies An impressive line-up of TV execs and guest panels have been finalised for the fourth edition of the Birmingham F...

Blu-Ray Review: Cheyenne – The Complete Series (1955-62). - Cheyenne (1955-62) was more than just an excellent 50s Western TV show. It was the first hour-long Western, the first hour-long dramatic TV show to run mor...

The Birds, the Birds, and the Beatles - One of the delights of running a film review website is being able to repost an article just because we feel like it. Admittedly, we have many to choose ...

The Auteurs #74: Ryan Coogler - Among the new wave of American filmmakers to emerge in the 2010s, Ryan Coogler is a unique voice in American cinema right now with five feature-length ...

424. Maharaja (#218) - Nithilan Saminathan's *Maharaja*. At time of recording, it was ranked 218th on the list of best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database. Show no...

Hypocrisy at the Heart of the Free Palestine Movement - In Gaza, a 22-year-old man was beaten to death for daring to protest Hamas. At universities in the United States, students march in support of ‘Palestinian...

Trust No One - a new Israeli TV series on Netflix - A new Israeli TV series has become available on Netflix this past week. *Trust No One (**הראש**) *is a suspenseful spy thriller about the functioning of...

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2025 - This major archive film festival runs from June 21st until June 29th in the city of Bologna. There are six cinema auditoriums plus open-air spaces. Over th...

Bye Bye 25 by Kim Gordon - Also, here's the article from *The Atlantic *where I learned about this version of the song.

FQ 78.4 Spring 2025 - FQ‘s new issue features free articles and more great reads for subscribers!https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/78/4/ From the Editor Editor’s Notebook (Fre...

Divine Wind / Zoroastro: JRA turf 2yo 2025 - HAKODATE 33.5 Just Beat (Declaration of War f Adachi) 9 33.7 Funny Bunny (Siskin f Y.Sugiyama) 2 33.8 Eternal Gear (Tower of London c Kato) 6 33.8 Pleasa...

9th Annual Allan Fish Festival, 1940s Film Polling Results, and Launching of 1950s Poll on Tuesday Morning Diary (June 10) - by Sam Juliano Thanks to everyone who participated and read entries for the Ninth Annual Online Film Festival at WONDERS IN THE DARK. I was amazed to see...

This month's podcast - This month on the podcast: I'll be chatting with the author of *The Fangirl Diaries: Finding Community in Anime Fandom of the 90s & 00s*, Erica Victoria...

Better Than Nothing - There’s only so much to be gained from spending a lot of time thinking about the past, but this attitude can be a problem when writing about movies releas...

ApoKalypse (2025) Review - ApoKalypse is a no holds barred indie animated feature by Nav Qateel Passion project ApoKalypse was written and directed by Lutz Geiger and created over ...

Screening of Tatami and Q&A with the Film’s Director, Guy Nattiv -

The Bermuda Triangle (1978) - The Bermuda Triangle - that area in the South Atlantic where ships, planes and people mysteriously vanish, according to legend - enjoyed its heyday in ...

THROWBACK THURSDAY / TREEFORT MUSIC FEST 2016—The Evening Class Interview With Tispur (née Samwise Carlson) - It is wonderful to see how the Treefort Music Fest has expanded over the years, but I will always have a fondness for its early years and the young music...

Amazon Doesn’t Own James Bond—Yet: Making Sense of the 007 Franchise. A guest post by Colin Burnett - Kristin here: Students and faculty in the film-studies division of the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are known fo...

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Top 7 địa chỉ mua giày leo núi ở Hà Nội chính hãng uy tín được nhiều người yêu thích nhất - Bạn đang muốn tìm kiếm cho mình những mẫu giày leo núi trekking chính hãng, giá tốt tại Hà Nội? Bạn băn khoăn không biết cửa hàng bán giày trekking nào đ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

The Doug Benson Movie Interruption: The Fate of the Furious - The next installment of Doug Benson’s Movie Interruption, where Doug and friends (who in the past have included everyone from Jon Hamm to Sarah Silverman...

News: Song Kang-ho Drives into 10 Million Viewer Club for 3rd Time with A TAXI DRIVER - By Pierce Conran Jang Hoon's Gwangju drama A Taxi Driver drove past the 10 million viewer mark ($69 million) this morning (August 20), on its 19th day of r...

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

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...