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TheyDream | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review

TheyDream | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review

TheyDream | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review

Frames That Mend: Caballero Unevenly Probes Puerto Rican Family Grief

William David Caballero Theydream Movie ReviewGrief is never linear; it reshapes us as we grow and changes after loss, often leaving us struggling to find the words to express what and how we feel. Exploring both inner and outer worlds through the lens of director William D. Caballero, we find a meta-documentary debut with a multitude of animation styles used to primarily focus on his mother Milly. Having selflessly given much of her later years to caregiving duties for dying members of his family, Caballero uses this as a jumping off point to explore his own grievances with identity, sexuality, sacrifice and the human condition.… Read the rest

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All About the Money | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review

All About the Money | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review

All About the Money | 2026 Sundance Film Festival Review

From Massachusetts with Love: O’Shea Explores the U.S Wealth Divide Through One Man’s Utopian Experiment

A docu surrounding a hot button topic in both modern America and the rest of the world, All About the Money chronicles a singular personal situation through the son of a renewable energy Billionaire, James “Fergie” Chambers. Swiping at the competing elements of extreme wealth and activism as a dysfunctional, Irish docu helmer Sinéad O’Shea focuses on an impossible marriage where we follow Fergie’s idealistic scheme and chaotic life. He has created a free of charge, communist community for a select few residents in Massachusetts paying for everything and unabashedly tearing down the system he was himself a product.… Read the rest

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2026 Oscars: ‘Sinners’ Lands Most Noms, but ‘One Battle After Another’ & ‘Sentimental Value’ are the Frontrunners

2026 Oscars: ‘Sinners’ Lands Most Noms, but ‘One Battle After Another’ & ‘Sentimental Value’ are the Frontrunners

2026 Oscars: ‘Sinners’ Lands Most Noms, but ‘One Battle After Another’ & ‘Sentimental Value’ are the Frontrunners

It was a great morning for the folks at Warner Bros. A really solid morning. With a record-breaking sixteen nominations, Ryan Coogler‘s Sinners might have pulled in the most votes, but Paul Thomas Anderson‘s One Battle After Another and Joachim Trier‘s Sentimental Value are the films to watch out for at the final gala of the season. Here are all the noms:

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Benicio del Toro, “One Battle After Another”
Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein”
Delroy Lindo, “Sinners”
Sean Penn, “One Battle After Another”
Stellan Skarsgård, “Sentimental Value”

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Elle Fanning, “Sentimental Value”
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, “Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan, “Weapons”
Wunmi Mosaku, “Sinners”
Teyana Taylor, “One Battle After Another”

Best Animated Short Film
“Butterfly”
“Forevergreen”
“The Girl Who Cried Pearls”
“Retirement Plan”
“The Three Sisters”

Best Costume Design
“Avatar: Fire and Ash”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“Sinners”

Best Live Action Short Film
“Butcher’s Stain”
“A Friend of Dorothy”
“Jane Austen’s Period Drama”
“The Singers”
“Two People Exchanging Saliva”

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
“Frankenstein”
“Kokuho”
“Sinners”
“The Smashing Machine”
“The Ugly Stepsister”

Best Original Score
Jerskin Fendrix, “Bugonia”
Alexandre Desplat, “Frankenstein”
Max Richter, “Hamnet”
Jonny Greenwood, “One Battle After Another”
Ludwig Göransson, “Sinners”

Best Adapted Screenplay
Will Tracy, “Bugonia”
Guillermo del Toro, “Frankenstein”
Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell, “Hamnet”
Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”
Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, “Train Dreams”

Best Original Screenplay
Robert Kaplow, “Blue Moon”
Jafar Panahi, “It Was Just an Accident”
Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, “Marty Supreme”
Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt, “Sentimental Value”
Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”
Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”
Michael B.… Read the rest

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Interview: Alexandre Dostie – Boa (Short Film)

Interview: Alexandre Dostie – Boa (Short Film)

Interview: Alexandre Dostie – Boa (Short Film)

We first took note of Quebecois filmmaker Alexandre Dostie with his back to back shorts in the TIFF-premiered short ‘Mutants’ (2016) and the Sundance-showcased ‘I’ll End Up in Jail’ (2019). While awaiting his feature film debut, the hyphenate filmmaker—a poet and now a playwright with a project (Kiki et la colère) launching in early 2026 —has returned to the short format with ‘Boa.’ A radical departure from his last feature yet retaining his signature twisted noir humor, Boa stars Dimitri Doré (Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer). Dostie ventures to France for a tale that explores a grotesque physical transformation, where a body morphs into something almost non-human.… Read the rest

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2025 Marrakech Film Festival: New Projects by Scandar Copti, Mounia Akl & Amjad Al Rasheed at the Atlas Workshops

2025 Marrakech Film Festival: New Projects by Scandar Copti, Mounia Akl & Amjad Al Rasheed at the Atlas Workshops

2025 Marrakech Film Festival: New Projects by Scandar Copti, Mounia Akl & Amjad Al Rasheed at the Atlas Workshops

Before the Marrakech Film Festival unveil their 2025 line-up, we have learned the films that are the make up of the Atlas Workshops (November 30th-December 4th) and this year’s patron is none other than master filmmaker Cristian Mungiu. 28 projects were selected and among the films in development we find Lebanese Costa Brava, Lebanon filmmaker Mounia Akl finally hitting her sophomore feature with Hold Me (If You Want). Last year’s big winner (Happy Holidays) at the Marrakech Film Festival in Palestinian filmmaker Scandar Copti will move into docu cinema for a third time with A Childhood. Jordan’s Amjad Al Rasheed who gave us Inshallah a Boy (Cannes Critics’ Week selection in 2023) is also working on his sophomore film in Under Her Eye.… Read the rest

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Interview: Ulises Porra – Under the Same Sun

Interview: Ulises Porra – Under the Same Sun

Interview: Ulises Porra – Under the Same Sun

For his third feature, Ulises Porra embarks on an ambitious cinematic voyage that dives deep into questions of freedom, colonialism, and hybridity. Under the Same Sun (Bajo el mismo sol) revisits early 19th-century Hispaniola — the island now divided between the Dominican Republic and Haiti — to bring together three strangers from distant corners of the world, bound by circumstance and ambition. A young Spanish heir (David Castillo), a Chinese silk-maker (Valentina Shen Wu), and a Haitian army deserter (Jean Jean) unite in a fragile enterprise, confronting not only the island’s untamed nature but also the invisible forces of empire, class, and power and yes tied to a road to riches by way of silk worm farming.… Read the rest

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Duolingo Mode: Sebastian Stan Targets ‘Impunity’ in Gálvez’s Pinochet-Era Spy Thriller

Duolingo Mode: Sebastian Stan Targets ‘Impunity’ in Gálvez’s Pinochet-Era Spy Thriller

Duolingo Mode: Sebastian Stan Targets ‘Impunity’ in Gálvez’s Pinochet-Era Spy Thriller

After returning to his Romanian roots for Cristian Mungiu’s upcoming Fjord, Sebastian Stan let slip that he will go full Duolingo mode picking up Spanish for Chilean auteur Felipe Gálvez‘s sophomore feature spy thriller project set to move into production next June. Based on the the recently published novel 38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands, Impunity will traverse the globe filming in London, Chile, and Spain. Gálvez’s debut The Settlers (read review) was a hit on the Croisette in the Un Certain Regard section in 2023. Producers on this project include Rei Pictures, Quiddity, Les Films du Worso, Snowglobe and Volos Films Italia.… Read the rest

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Die My Love | Review

Die My Love | Review

Die My Love | Review

Images of Yellow Wallpaper: Ramsay Charts a Psychotic Break

Lynne Ramsay Die My Love ReviewFor her first narrative feature in eight years, Lynne Ramsay returns with Die My Love, based on the 2019 novel by Ariana Harwicz. In essence, it’s a troubling, captivating character study of a woman come undone, which bears thematic similarities to her 2002 feature Morvern Cellar starring Samantha Morton. Jennifer Lawrence headlines with a blazing, acerbic performance as a woman suffering from postnatal depression, a situation exacerbated by a recent move to a dilapidated country home where isolation deepens her discontent. Retooling the novel (set in France) to an unspecified locale in the US, Ramsay also provides a clearer through line to the fragmented interiority of a protagonist who keeps hurling herself towards the precipice.… Read the rest

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Marie Kreutzer’s ‘Gentle Monster’ – Everything We Know So Far …

Marie Kreutzer’s ‘Gentle Monster’ – Everything We Know So Far …

Marie Kreutzer’s ‘Gentle Monster’ – Everything We Know So Far …

Known for her sharp, character-driven films that often explore the complexities of women’s lives, societal expectations, and personal rebellion, Marie Kreutzer‘s 2011 debut Die Vaterlosen and third feature in 2019’s The Ground Beneath My Feet premiered at the Berlinale. It’s with her sumptuous four feature in 2022 that landed at the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section and won Best Performance for Vicky Krieps that pushed the Austrian filmmaker to new heights. This success of Corsage (read ★★★★ review) meant some choice folks joined this fifth feature. We might just see some more leanings into female agency and rebellion in this next project.… Read the rest

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Pillion | Review

Pillion | Review

Pillion | Review

Sit & Deliver: Lighton Assumes Positions in Titillating Debut

harry-lighton-pillion-movie-reviewThere’s a melancholic seductiveness to Pillion, the directorial debut of Harry Lighton, based on the 2020 novella Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. Contemporizing the 1970s set bildungsroman to modern day, it concerns the sexual awakening of an aimless young man who enters a rigid, consensual relationship with an irresistible biker as a submissive to his Dominant. Such a blatant, matter-of-fact examination of this specific subculture earns a provocative deference for frankly portraying these dynamics in ways rarely seen cinematically broached with seriousness, the torch bearer of Larry Kramer and a whole slew of queer forefathers whose visibility on the crests of the sexual revolution were decimated by the AIDS crisis.… Read the rest

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