Jury and Award Winners – Photo Closing Ceremony 2021 © Valery Hache / AFP “It’s been an exceptional Festival. It was supposed to be, and it’s certainly lived up to its promise. For 12 days, the 74th Festival de Cannes has celebrated our reu…
PIG tells the story of a truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped. Director: Michael Sarnoski Story By: Michael Sarnoski & Vanessa B…
London, 18th century. Casanova, famous for his affinities for sexual pleasure and gambling, arrives recently exiled from Paris. Living in a new city completely foreign to him, Casanova meets the beautiful young prostitute, Marianne de Charpillon. He be…
PAPER BIRDS PT. 1 & PT. 2 tells the story of Toto (Archie Yates), a short-sighted child with an exceptional talent for music. With guidance from his grandparents Robert (Edward Norton), a highly respected musician devoted to his music above all el…
GKIDS’ latest acquisition BELLE, from acclaimed filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda and his company Studio Chizu, is an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival and will make its world debut in the Cannes Premiere section on Thursday, July 15. This marks the…
In 1961, Kempton Bunton (Jim Broadbent), a 60-year old taxi driver, stole Goya?s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. Kempton sent ransom n…
SYNOPSIS: The streets of N.Y. might be temporarily silent, but in downtown Manhattan in the early 90’s, they were the site of a dynamic collision between two vibrant subcultures: skateboarding and hip hop. Jeremy Elkin’s documentary, All The Streets Ar…
Hot on the heels of Wonder Woman 1984 coming out this past week, we have some news to report about the next film in the franchise. Simply put, Warner Bros. is anxious to get another sequel out into the world, and have made some moves in that direction….
There are fewer sure things in Hollywood than that there’s an interest in making a sequel to Ready Player One. After all, the Steven Spielberg film is based on a best selling novel by Ernest Cline, did well at the box office, got nominated for an…
I just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a sincere Happy Holidays today. Whether you celebrate Christmas or not (I don’t, for example), I hope it’s a good day for you all. I also know it likely won’t be the day that many usuall…
We’re all still digesting the recent news that Warner Bros. is going to be putting all of their 2021 slate on HBO Max, as well as in theaters. It’s a massive shift for tentpole releases, obviously. Moreover, we learned that the filmmakers a…
Yesterday saw the Hollywood Foreign Press Association chime in and really do their part to upend this already unusual awards season. The HFPA, which puts on the Golden Globe Awards each year, did a review of what studios had sent them, category and eli…
Eddie Murphy is back in one of his most iconic roles. Yes, Prince Akeem (well, now King Akeem) is again going to tickle our funny bones. A sequel to Coming to America had long been spoken about, but it finally happened. Moreover, we now have a Trailer …
A new critics group can potentially struggle to separate themselves from the pack. Thankfully, the Hollywood Critics Association (or HCA, for short) does not have that problem. Chairman and founder Scott Menzel (full disclosure, an industry colleague a…
Moments ago, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association finished unveiling their 2020 awards on Twitter. As always, some of their choices were a bit out of left field, but also far less so than in years past. Consider it a side effect of the year being s…
One of the longtime hallmarks of Saturday Night Live is political satire, including a prime impersonation of the current President of the United States. In the lead up to the election, Jim Carrey was trotted out as the choice to play Joe Biden, opposit…