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October is typically considered the height of autumn, and as such, it goes by many names: Pumpkin Spice season, Decorative Gourd season, Spooky season, etc. However, in the entertainment business, it's the heart of film festival season, as major indie films and awards contenders head from high-profile event
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For the past decade, we’ve slowly watched every rising and established artist take up streaming on their offer of crazy money to make whatever they want before realizing that an algorithmically driven platform doesn’t care for their hard work and unique style. Netflix won’t curate or even
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You know something’s severely wrong with a film if you find yourself fixating on the casting – not just mulling over who’s in the ensemble, but how they all got assembled together. If you’re stuck on the mechanics of how brilliant actors ended up alongside each other, there’
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whimsNetflix has released the trailer for its upcoming Roald Dahl adaptation The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and it pretty much looks exactly like what you'd expect from a film that combines Britain's most imaginative children's author with Oscar nominee Wes Anderson (Asteroid City)
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So much about Finally Dawn (Finalmente L’alba) feels perplexing. It gives the perspective of a regular Italian adolescent through a world of questionable showbiz glamor, but we rarely get insight into her interiority. It’s set against the backdrop of Hollywood productions that set up shop in Rome in
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Actress Jodie Comer has already won an Emmy Award, two BAFTAs, a Tony Award, and an Olivier Award for her work on stage and the small screen over the past five years. And now it feels like she may well be coming for an Oscar next. Her new apocalyptic survival
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We always love to see the Doctor Who alumni network thriving. From David Tennant (Good Omens) and Matt Smith (House of the Dragon) to Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Jenna Coleman (Wilderness), it feels like every time you turn around these days, there's a former Doctor
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Netflix is doing the release date shuffle as the final months of 2023 roll in and the strike rolls on. However, unlike most production studios, which are starting to shuffle release dates back as the production shutdowns drag on, Netflix is moving some stuff forward as if to show off
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Despite the fact that we know relatively little about it, Saltburn is already one of the buzziest films of the year. And in truth, how could it now be? It's a perfect storm of intrigue --- a vague plot described in tempting buzzwords (“beautifully wicked tale of privilege
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Performance lies at the heart of Femme – not just with the number performed by drag queen Aphrodite Banks in the film’s opening. The piercing feature debut from Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping is filled with subversive, confronting observations about performance of identity, how queer people choose or
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We’ve been lucky to experience a wealth of striking debut films by British female directors over the past few years. Some trade in devastating arthouse aesthetics, like Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun, Georgia Oakley’s Blue Jean, or Cannes prizewinner How to Have Sex by Molly Manning Walker. Some lean into
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As of this writing, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are ongoing, but awards season is still on, with hopes that by the time the red carpets roll out in January 2024, there will be stars to walk them. The unofficial kick-off of awards season begins with the back-to-back international film