Dennis Villeneuve’s sequel to his 2021 foray into the world of Frank Herbert’s prose opens with the voice offering what seems, at first, to be a helpful reminder of what happened previously for audiences.
Each year, I use the weekend of the Academy Awards to write my last official post on the previous year in film, usually predicated on the relationship with the imminent Oscar winners.
You wouldn’t think that the recent Oscar nominee for Best Picture (Celine Song’s “Past Lives”) has much in common with the Will Gluck romantic-comedy “Anyone But You”, but both films are an unwelcome reminder that contemporary romances keep forgetting the most important thing – a burning romance.
Although every cinematic biopic is liable to be compared to the reality of its subjects, there’s no immediate artistic value in overzealous fidelity to truth in film.
Four feature-directorial debuts at this year’s Sundance Film Festivals interrogated dynamics of family – whether filial or parental – offering distinct social commentary while doing them.
The prize-winning documentary features at this year’s Sundance Film Festival suggested an audience, and jury, that were drawn to experimentations in the documentary form on film that sought out a variety of different approaches to what the documentary could be.
Three of the films in the US Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival find writers directing their own scripts engaging with socially urgent issues that feel destined to be conversation starters.
When the Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) launched in 1989, it was part of a concerted plan to provide a launching pad for international cinema.
This review contains some mild spoilers
Writer/director Rian Johnson would like you to know that very wealthy people are generally awful, exhausting, and immoral.
In 2020, German actress Maria Schrader made her directorial debut with the Netflix miniseries “Unorthodox”, the first Netflix series to be primarily in Yiddish.
Last month, the publicity team for Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans”, a semi-autobiographical account of the filmmaker’s life from 1952 to the mid-1960s, revealed that Michelle Williams would be campaigning for awards attention as Lead Actress rather than Supporting Actress.
It feels important that “Catherine Called Birdy” and “On the Come Up”, both films about girls coming of age in ambivalent circumstances, are directed by actresses turned directors.