The 2025 Academy Awards nominations were announced last week. We thought you’d like to know which ones have received coverage from us over the past year. Below you will find the complete list of nominees, and any titles that are […]

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There’s so much uncertainty in the world and strangely, as it always somehow seems to, the Sundance Film Festival reflects that. On a surface level, there’s the fact that no one knows where the 2026 Sundance Film Festival will be […]

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As of the publication of these lists, the domestic box office for 2024 sees films like Inside Out 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, Despicable Me 4, Wicked, Moana 2, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Dune: Part Two, Twisters, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, […]

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Few American filmmakers have shown as consistent a dedication to portraying marginalized communities with dignity and complexity as Sean Baker. From his early collaboration with Shih-Ching Tsou on 2004’s Take Out which intimately captured the day-in-the-life of an undocumented Chinese […]

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Over the last couple weeks whenever I mentioned I was attending NYFF to a normie, they told me, “oh yeah, I saw the long lines.” What those normies didn’t realize is that the lines they saw were actually to enter […]

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As the awards season approaches, studios are coordinating their efforts regarding the films they intend to promote for the 97th Academy Awards, and it appears that the best picture category is poised to be a sausage fest. While many features […]

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