Supergirl (Craig Gillespie, 2026) 1 out of 5 stars It’s tough finding novel ways to tell superhero stories these days, given the 21st-century glut in the movie market, so kudos to anyone trying their best to say something new. Unfortunately, originality does not emerge from surface retooling of genre tropes but rather from inventive writing […]
Studio Khara, the Japan-based animation house behind the “Evangelion” franchise, has boarded “Baahubali: The Eternal War Part 1” to produce a dedicated animated sequence for the film. SlowCurve, the Japanese production company that brought Studio Khara onto the project, will handle planning and production coordination between the Japanese and international teams. The segment will be […]
Genndy Tartakovsky is developing a “Conan the Barbarian” series with Cartoon Network Studios and Prime Video – suggesting the animation great is firmly back in the Warner Bros. fold having spent a few years developing features with Sony, returning earlier this year with a new season of “Primal” on Adult Swim. The announcement was made […]
The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate Virginie Efira, the Belgian-born, France-based actress who was recently in Cannes with lead roles in two competition films: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “All of a Sudden” and Asghar Farhadi’s “Parallel Tales.” Efira will be feted by the Swiss fest, which is Europe’s preeminent event dedicated to indie cinema, with its Leopard Club Award. She […]
Couture (Alice Winocour, 2025) 2 out of 5 stars Angelina Jolie is not to blame for the failings of Couture, the latest (and sadly, disappointing) feature from French writer/director Alice Winocour, whose previous films Proxima and Revoir Paris I very much enjoyed. Indeed, there is not enough of Jolie, her character just one of three […]
The “Baahubali” universe is one which has been continually transformative for mainstream Indian cinema and the latest entry, the animated feature “Baahubali: The Eternal War – Part 1,” might be on the verge of doing it again. A co-production between India’s Arka Mediaworks and France’s Alcyde, as well as Zaratan and Aniventure in the U.K., […]
Six emerging female animation directors in Spain, some with a considerable career in cinema such as IDFA Audience Award winner Lucija Stojević (“La Chana”), will unveil their latest projects at Annecy June 25 at Women in Animation from Spain. The titles say much about the state of animation – in Spain and beyond. Three of […]
In a bid to streamline transport and logistics — and spare attendees from spending half the festival shuttling up and down the Italian Riviera — this year’s Italian Global Series Festival has drawn a clearer line between its two host cities. Rimini takes the opening days (July 3–6), Riccione the central stretch (July 7–10), before […]
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By Jessica Herndon Love stories. They’re part of the Sundance Film Festival’s DNA. Across four decades, we’ve premiered films rooted in romance. From tropes spanning second chance romances to fake relationships that turn real, enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, and more, these works don’t just tell stories about finding “the one,” but that explore […]
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