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“Rebuilding” belongs to a genre that’s now past its sell-by date: the slow-moving Sundance red-state movie. By red state, I don’t mean that the politics are right wing in any overt way. I mean that the drama is mired in the fetishistic trappings of the American West — the horses and farm houses, the sunbaked […]
Crows rustle in Dylan Southern’s fiction feature debut, the haunting story of a middle-aged man coming to terms with the sudden and unexpected death of his wife, the mother of his two boys. In terms of genre, it’s hard to place, sitting somewhere between social drama and heightened horror; if Ken Loach dreamed up The […]
All That’s Left of You, Palestinian American film-maker Cherien Dabis’s wrenching portrait of intergenerational trauma, begins its 75-year tale of displacement as the great epics do, in medias res. A teenage boy chases a friend through the narrow streets of Nablus, a blur of surefooted youth amid the sun-bleached, nobly dilapidated homes. In a series […]
EXCLUSIVE: Nadia Fall, a noted artistic theatre director — she’s just moved from the Theatre Royal, Stratford East to run the mighty Young Vic — has directed her first feature film. It’s called Brides and is about two Muslim schoolgirls who leave their disruptive homes to travel via Turkey to Syria, where they join the Islamic state and […]
Sundance 2025: ‘Andre is an Idiot’ is an Endearing Doc About Cancer by Alex Billington January 24, 2025 This film is the story of what happens when you don’t get a colonoscopy. Yes that is actually the premise for this documentary film directed by Tony Benna, but it’s also about much more than just that […]
Fascinating Trailer for ‘Live’ 24 Hours of Brian Eno Music Doc ‘Eno’ by Alex Billington January 10, 2025Source: YouTube “We really need to be able to harness the intelligence and creativity of everybody – art is the way we do that.” Film First has unveiled an official trailer for a documentary film called simply Eno, […]
Kristen Stewart & Steven Yeun in ‘Love Me’ Sci-Fi Romance Trailer by Alex Billington January 1, 2025Source: YouTube “What does it feel like to be alive?” 🛰 “Have you ever considered how impossible it is that we found each other? Bleecker Street has revealed an official trailer for the indie sci-fi romance creation titled Love […]