Awards

Movie Review (NYFF 2026): ‘Artificial’ Generates A Middling Apocalyptic Satire From A Slippery Origin Story

Director: Luca GuadagninoWriter: Simon RichStars: Andrew Garfield, Yura Borisov, Monica Barbaro, Cooper Hoffman, Ike Barinholtz, Mark Rylance Synopsis: Follows the confusing firing and rehiring cycle of Sam Altman at OpenAI where the board...

Movie Review (NYFF 2026): ‘Bitter Christmas’ Features Almodóvar at War with Himself

Director: Pedro AlmodóvarWriter: Pedro AlmodóvarStars: Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón Synopsis: In 2004, an ad director faces a turbulent Christmas weekend. In 2026, a filmmaker turns her story into a screenplay, blurring the...

Spotlight Shorts at the New York Film Festival 2026

The Spotlight Shorts program at the 64th New York Film Festival featured quite the array of short films. Beautifully, in just under 90 minutes, the audience was able to be transported all...

Movie Review (Fantastic Fest 2026): ‘Kung Fu Deadly’ Shows Promise

Director: Fergal CostelloWriter: Paddy McDonaldStars: Steven He, Michael Tient, Gemma Chua-Tran, Jason Tobin Synopsis: Two hapless rat catchers encounter a kung-fu Taoist Guardian pursuing an undead Chinese Jiangshi. Together they uncover family secrets...

Chasing The Gold: Will ‘Forgotten Island’ be Forgotten at This Year’s Academy Awards?

2024’s The Wild Robot was the last film fully animated in-house at DreamWorks’ Glendale campus. The film was a hit, making over $300 million at the box office, and the sequel, The...

Movie Review (NYFF 2026): ‘A Statement’ is Timely, Despite the Late Hour

Director: Tom McCarthyWriter: Thomas Bidegain, Noé Debré, Tom McCarthyStars: Evan Peters, Paul Rudd, Tatiana Maslany Synopsis: In October 1980, twenty environmental experts convene at a Florida hotel to draft a congressional statement on...

Movie Review (NYFF 2026): ‘Minotaur’ is a Masterful Maze Of Domesticity, Deceit, And Darkness

Director: Andrey ZvyagintsevWriter: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Simon LiashenkoStars: Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva Synopsis: When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures, an increasingly unstable world, and the discovery...

Chasing The Gold: A Look at the Best Lead Actor Contenders

As we roll out of the major film festivals and settle into the waiting game of the industry and critics getting caught up on their films to watch, I figured it was...

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