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There’s a particular kind of American panic that kicks in the moment sex stops being decorative. Not pornographic, decorative. The kind that sells fragrance campaigns, props up streaming thrillers, lubricates the cultural machine without ever leaving a stain. But the second desire becomes architectural, the second it starts shaping a […]
Somewhere between a village wedding and a blown-out speaker stack, DJ Ahmet finds its pulse. Georgi M. Unkovski’s debut feature, winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition Audience Award at Sundance last year, has just dropped a new trailer and poster ahead of its UK and ROI cinema release on […]
Warner Bros. is once again cracking open Stephen King’s haunted toy chest, and this time, they’re handing the keys to Mike Flanagan. The director and horror obsessive is officially reuniting with King for a new feature-length adaptation of “The Mist”, the bleak 1980 novella that turns small-town paranoia into a […]
A new era of cinematic ambition takes shape in Bi Gan’s “Resurrection,” a film poised to redefine what it means to dream on screen. Following his hypnotic explorations in “Kaili Blues” and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,“ the Chinese auteur returns with an anthology that blurs the line between reality […]
There’s a crooked kind of beauty in watching a music festival through the eyes of someone who feels absolutely nothing when sound swells around them. “In a World That Won’t Stop Singing,” Electric Castle’s documentary on musical anhedonia, steps away from melodrama and oversized explanations. It lets the subject breathe […]
In a world that feels increasingly fractured, Doc’n Roll Film Festival – “the Glastonbury of music movie fests”, according to Time Out – returns for its 12th edition with a line-up of films celebrating artists who refuse to bend, break or conform. From punk to jazz and blues, house and electronica to soul, art-rock […]
How Aim‑ei Polpitak crafts a tender meditation on creativity, connection, and feminine interiority In the slow hush of a Bangkok evening, somewhere between fluorescent hallway lights and the fading glow of a blank page, “Concetta” begins, not with noise, but with a whisper. Aim‑ei Polpitak’s latest feature is not here […]
French provocateur François Ozon returns to the spotlight with the first trailer for his latest film, “The Stranger,” a haunting black-and-white adaptation of Albert Camus’ seminal 1942 novel. The film is set to have its world premiere in competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival on September 2. Reuniting with […]
As new addition to its expanded list of programs, The Pit VOD platform presents “Redemption”; which narrate the untold stories of Charles Baudelaire, Aleister Crowley, and Countess Elisabeth Báthory in a gripping 6-part documentary series on The Pit, unraveling the dark legends and controversies that made them icons of rebellion, subversion, […]
Thirty-five years after the Romanian Revolution, many questions remain. An elaborate cinematic concert based on the documentary “Revolutia Nevazuta” (The Unseen Revolution) treated wounds as it was presented in the premiere as part of the Timișoara Community Gala 2023. Its ability to transport feelings through time was primarily due to the brilliance […]