77th Writers Guild Awards set for February 2025
Nominations announced January 9, 2025. Source: 77th Writers Guild Awards set for February 2025 | News | Screen
‘Universal Language’ Review: A Riff on Iranian Cinema, and Reckoning with Canadian Identity
The follow-up to his anarchic debut feature The Twentieth Century, a postmodern restaging of Canadian history that eschewed accuracy and realism in favor of strange psycho-sexual fetishes and aesthetic fixations, Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language takes a similarly irreverent approach to … Continued
‘Eden’ Review: Ron Howard Has Finally Lost His Mind
With his new film, Eden, the Hollywood stalwart lets the craziness take over, to his eternal credit. Source: ‘Eden’ Review: Ron Howard Has Finally Lost His Mind
James Earl Jones, Oscar-nominated actor and voice of Darth Vader, dies aged 93
Star of stage and screen died on Monday. Source: James Earl Jones, Oscar-nominated actor and voice of Darth Vader, dies aged 93 | News | Screen
Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door’ wins Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival; ‘The Brutalist’, Nicole Kidman for ‘Babygirl’ take prizes
Almodóvar’s first English-language feature marks the first time he has won the top award at one of the three major film festivals (Cannes, Venice and Berlin). Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore star in the story of a woman who makes … Continued
What Is the New Standard of American Cinema?
”On one hand: The stars were back! On the other: American film production was shut down for a significant chunk of 2023, which is when many movies in this year’s festival would have been trying to shoot. Did you notice … Continued