This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Category: Entertainment
May 19, 2025
Cannes 2025, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, News, Nouvelle Vague, Reviews, Richard Linklater, TV show
Cannes Review: With Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater Offers a Cinema Masterclass
Shot on black-and-white film with the same Cameflex model used by Jean-Luc Godard for Breathless––the film it portrays and embodies…
May 18, 2025
Entertainment, Festivals & Awards, Film, News, TV show
Cannes 2025: Dossier 137, A Pale View of Hills, The Great Arch
A confidently made procedural from the Competition program for this year’s Palme d’Or should engage with audiences outside of Cannes…
May 18, 2025
Entertainment, Festivals & Awards, Film, News, TV show
Cannes 2025: The Plague, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, Amrum
Themes emerge at film festivals, reflections of international anxieties and concerns collected in art. An early topic of conversation at…
May 18, 2025
Ari Aster, Cannes 2025, Eddington, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, News, Reviews, TV show
Cannes Review: Ari Aster’s Eddington is an Ambitious 2020 Period Piece That Works in Fits and Spurts
In Eddington, Ari Aster’s latest doom spiral, the proposed building of a data center in nowhere New Mexico provides the…
May 18, 2025
Cannes 2025, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, News, Oliver Laxe, Reviews, Sirat, TV show
Cannes Review: Oliver Laxe’s Desert Trance Sirat Is a Grand, Adventurous Achievement
For the French-Spanish filmmaker Oliver Laxe, a competition berth in Cannes has been a long time coming. Laxe was here…
May 18, 2025
Cannes 2025, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, I Only Rest in the Storm, News, Pedro Pinho, Reviews, TV show
Cannes Review: I Only Rest in the Storm Glides Over Many Ideas Without Fully Reckoning With Their Weight
Late into I Only Rest in the Storm, Sergio (Sérgio Coragem) is asked a question he can’t seem to answer:…
May 18, 2025
Cannes 2025, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, News, Reviews, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, TV show
Cannes Review: The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo is a Deeply Affecting Queer Drama
As reminders that ignorance, bigotry, and hate can literally kill, stories about the AIDS epidemic will always be relevant. The…
May 18, 2025
A Useful Ghost, Cannes 2025, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, News, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, Reviews, TV show
Cannes Review: A Useful Ghost Tells a Peculiar, Humorous Paranormal Tale
While ghosts and spirits have long been the conduit for cinematic scares and jolts, from The Innocents to Poltergeist to…
May 17, 2025
Entertainment, Festivals & Awards, Film, News, TV show
Cannes 2025: Left-Handed Girl, Sirât
Sean Baker, the winner of last year’s Palme d’Or (and four Oscars) for “Anora,” already has a new film at…
May 17, 2025
Entertainment, Film, News, TV show, TV/Streaming
Apple TV+’s “Murderbot” Functions Along Mission Parameters, But Needs To Work Out Some Bugs
It’s funny, in a world where the “Andor” finale gave us the recent return of K-2SO, “Star Wars”‘s most invigoratingly…