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The Hollywood ReporterFan Bingbing Sparks Carnal Desire in Invalid Father-in-Law in Wayne Wang’s ‘Diary of a Mad Old Man’ (Exclusive Toronto Clip) The Asian-American director's erotically-charged drama also stars Lily Franky and will have a gala world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.
The Playlist‘The Unknown’ Teaser: French Psychological Thriller Starring Léa Seydoux Arrives In Theaters Later This Year Neon is on an unprecedented run at the Cannes Film Festival , having won its seventh straight Palme d’Or with Cristian Munjiu ‘s “ Fjord ” and snatching up several other buzzy titles for distribution. That includes Arthu
DeadlineOscars: Iraq Submits Venice Title ‘No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman’ Iraq has selected Norwegian-Kurdish director Halkawt Mustafa’s drama No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman as its Best International Feature Film entry to the 99th Academy Awards. News of the choice came ahead of the
SCMP FilmHong KongVenice 2026: Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? is a haunting Vietnam war drama 4/5 stars “We were taught to treat Asians like they were less than human,” says Allen Nelson in Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?, a true-life drama about a former US Marine faced with a reckoning. Screening in competitio
IndieWire‘Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?’ Review: Shinya Tsukamoto Directs a Bizarre Misfire About a Black Soldier in Vietnam Venice: Stilted dialogue, oppressive sound design, and a gawking cultural gaze yield one of the most unpleasant films of this year’s competition.
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Animation MagazineEncounters Film Festival Unveils Expanded Animation Program for 2026 Encounters Film Festival has unveiled its 2026 program, led by the U.K. premiere of Paper Plane, the directorial and screenwriting debut of Academy Award‑nominated actor Saoirse Ronan, and the English premiere of Mission
DeadlineAngel Acquires Michael Keaton-Morgan Freeman Western ‘Rode To Ruin’, Launches Sales Arm Ahead Of TIFF Market EXCLUSIVE: Angel has picked up worldwide rights to the Michael Keaton-directed Western we revealed this week, Rode To Ruin. Keaton will star with Morgan Freeman in the movie, which Angel will release domestically and is
The Hollywood Reporter‘Burgundy’ Review: The Classic French Vin Rouge Is a Way of Life in Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s Captivating Oenology Doc The directors behind ‘The Truffle Hunters’ and ‘Gaucho Gaucho’ continue their ethnographic exploration of age-old traditions inextricably embedded in the land.
VarietyChloé Zhao Defends Comic-Book Movies: ‘It’s Important to Not Write Off Stories Because We Don’t Consider Them High Art’ When Chloé Zhao was growing up, she dreamed not of directing movies but becoming a manga artist. “But I wasn’t very good at drawing. I wasn’t up to standard,” she said with a laugh during a wide-ranging masterclass about
The Film StageLéa Seydoux Is Not Herself In U.S. Trailer for Arthur Harari’s Divisive Cannes Premiere The Unknown Few titles this year have earned quite so odd a response as Arthur Harari’s The Unknown. Just after a Cannes premiere that we left unimpressed, another writer of ours argued it’s the film of the year. For some of us, any
Variety‘The City of the Living’ Review: A Superbly Acted and Heartbreakingly Real Story Based on a Real Event That Shook Rome to Its Core Does a filmmaker have a responsibility towards marginalized communities? It’s an irreconcilable debate given the unbridgeable chasm between the two sides: Is the onus on the artist, or the audience? Edoardo Gabbriellini’
The Playlist‘Otherwise Engaged’: Rom-Com Starring Halle Berry, Colin Firth, Zoë Kravitz & Jack Whitehall To Hit TIFF Market And another rom-com hits the upcoming TIFF Market. Deadline reports that Halle Berry , Colin Firth , Zoë Kravitz , and Jack Whitehall are set to star in “ Otherwise Engaged ,” the directorial debut of longtime producer S
Anime News NetworkJapanTokyo Anime Awards Festival Ends TAAF 2026 took place from March 13-16
Variety‘Al Baraneya’ Review: Cinema Verité Doesn’t Get More Naturalistic Than Egyptian Director Ashgan El-Hamus’ Impressive Debut There isn’t an iota of artificiality in Ashgan El-Hamus’ impressive debut “Al Baraneya,” not an easy accomplishment given that it’s fiction looking like a documentary, with a cast almost exclusively composed of relatives
The Hollywood ReporterLiam Neeson-Produced ‘The Lost Children of Tuam,’ About Secret Mass Burial of Irish Kids, Confronts a Painful Historical Chapter (Exclusive Trailer) Monica Dolan stars as an amateur historian who uncovered the scandal in director Frank Berry's film, which will get its international premiere at TIFF after its world debut at Galway.
DeadlineHalle Berry, Zoë Kravitz, Colin Firth & Jack Whitehall To Star In Rom-Com ‘Otherwise Engaged’; Mister Smith Launches For TIFF Market EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a fun one. Oscar winners Halle Berry (Monster’s Ball) and Colin Firth (The King’s Speech), Emmy nominee Zoë Kravitz (The Studio), and British Comedy Award winner Jack Whitehall (The ‘Burbs) have been se
The PlaylistTIFF 2026 Preview: 30 Must-See Movies To Watch The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has always cast a wider net than Venice, Cannes, or Telluride, mixing awards contenders and established auteurs with studio comedies, international genre movies, documentari
Little White Lies15/18 (A Place to Heal) – first-look review
The Film StageVenice Review: Wild Horse Nine Is a Ruthless CIA Spoof with Shades of Memento and SpongeBob Squarepants The trailer for Wild Horse Nine looks like nothing more than a parody of Martin McDonagh’s well-established and celebrated style. “How many times did the line about killing a guy in/spelling Czechoslovakia have to play d
Variety AsiaAsiaAnn Hui, Carlo Chatrian to Head Pingyao’s Fei Mu, Rossellini Juries The Pingyao International Film Festival has named Hong Kong director Ann Hui and Italian critic and programmer Carlo Chatrian as jury presidents of the Fei Mu Awards and the Roberto Rossellini Awards, respectively, ahead
IndieWire‘Queer Edward II’ Review: Intimate Derek Jarman Documentary Channels the Power of Articulate, Angry and Artful Queer Protest Venice: BTS footage from the 1991 film “Edward II” is given urgent personal and political context in this electrifying debut feature.
Variety AsiaAsiaBusan Market Unveils Doc Square, Launches Impact Asia as Yim Siwan Named Festival Closing Ceremony Host The Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), the market of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), will present Doc Square 2026 from Oct. 10-13, bringing together eight partner organizations from five countries to conn
Variety AsiaAsiaTamar AI’s TapNow Brings AI-Native Filmmaking to Venice Production Bridge With HappyHorse-Backed 10,000 Parallel Universes Films, Unveils Streamer Glanze Liu Haonan and Qiao Yuhang have been finishing each other’s stories since high school, where they drew together, talked about animation and film, and traded ideas for comics and stories of their own. More than a decade l
Little White LiesToo Much Sugar – first-look review
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