The Academy Awards take place on March 12 this year, and as usual there are 15 short films each vying for their own special Oscar, 5 within each of the 3 different categories: animation, documentary, and live action. As I […]

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  Tuscan writer Carlo Collodi published The Adventures of Pinocchio in 1883, and since then the tale has seen many adaptations on the page and screen, the best-known of which is probably Walt Disney’s, released in 1940. Now, in late 2022, comes the […]

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(Check out Jack Schenker’s movie review for Three Thousand Years of Longing, in theaters August 25. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Six years after making perhaps the single loudest and most intense action film of all […]

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It’s another year on the Croisette. The 2022 Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 17 to 28. The lineup was announced dark and early (at the very least) in U.S. time. Featuring new work in-competition by David Cronenberg, […]

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