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Holiday films are one of the few guaranteed ways to bring in audiences left in the TV landscape left in the wake of the streaming revolution. Part of it is the dated nature of the holiday experience -- no one watches Christmas tree lightings in January, and there's
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Ismail Noor Muhammad Abdul Rahman, better known as Ismail Merchant, moved from India to New York in 1958 at the age of 22 to study at NYU. A year later, he met 30-year-old American director James Ivory at a screening in New York of Ivory's documentary The Sword
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Anthony Hopkins is making a play for the Oscars this year in One Life, where he plays real-life "British Schindler" Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved the lives of 669 Jewish children during World War II. It's perfect Oscar bait — real-life hero, biopic, period piece, tear-jerker, war
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There must be a science to making a quietly disappointing sequel. All the hard work and good intentions remain (especially if you’ve spent years manipulating little clay figurines), but everything feels more labored and less effective. Elements that change feel blatant, things that stay the same feel tired, and
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All hail the Emperor. The trailer for the upcoming historical drama Napoleon promises a sweeping, action-packed epic that will reveal the true man behind the myth of Napoleon Bonaparte. The highly anticipated film hails from Ridley Scott, the award-winning director behind movies like Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, and The Last
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Is it possible to measure love? To know for sure that you truly loved someone? And that they loved you back? What if you could know, instantly, whether or not your partner was your forever? That's the premise behind the upcoming Apple TV+ feature film Fingernails, a sci-fi
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The trailer for A24's The Zone of Interest finally arrived months after the film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and took home the Grand Prix and the FIPRESCI Prize. The World War II Holocaust film opened to rapturous reviews in France last spring, with reviews calling it
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With All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh (Weekend, Looking) has made a film that’s about a few things. Foremostly, it’s about ghosts – literal ghosts, but also figurative ones, phantoms created by emotions we don’t know what to do with or feel like forgetting. All of Us Strangers
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When Emerald Fennell accepted her BAFTA for writing Promising Young Woman in 2021 (virtually, as the country was in lockdown at the time), she was sitting in a glamorous hotel room, complete with a grand piano just over her shoulder. The sudden display of glamour (Fennell clarified she was in
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When Telly Visions initially reported on Argylle in June 2023, we noted Apple TV+'s forthcoming film, billed as a James Bond-like thriller, was "based on the debut novel by Elly Conway," a book, we should note, which was not actually on bookshelves, or available for preorder
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The relationship thriller Fair Play originally debuted at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, where it was gleefully scooped up by Netflix as one of its next big “gets” for awards season. The film desperately wants to have deep and meaningful conversations about gender roles, expectations, and the concept of the
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The British film industry has been producing striking debut films at an unfathomable rate over the last few years, and now that Hoard has premiered at the Venice Film Festival, we certainly can’t accuse them of all feeling the same. The London-set drama centers on Maria, who, as a