Miyake Sho’s “Two Seasons, Two Strangers” emerged as the big winner at the 30th International Film Festival of Kerala, claiming the festival’s top honor, the Suvarna Chakoram for best film, for its “exploratory, subtle, beautiful, and thought-provoking cinematic expression of human relationships set within the natural world.” The film previously won the Golden Leopard at […]
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Mamma Mia's Amanda Seyfreid is back, in sinister mode this time, with Sydney Sweeney in THE HOUSEMAID, opening wide Friday, Dec. 19. Based on the best-selling novel by literal brain doctor Freida McFadden, Amanda’s Nina Winchester is about to twist Sydney’s Millie Calloway into an emotional pretzel in this giddy-making thriller from...
American actors Anthony Mackie and Sawyer Spielberg were among stars of the film industry who attended the Bahamas International Film
Festival (BIFF) 2025 opening night celebration.
MGM Amazon Prime’s Fallout: Keep a safe distance
PR Agency Moe’s Art warmly invited us for an exclusive screening of Prime Video’s ‘highly-anticipated global hit, Fallout Season 2’— a wild, wicked and wonderfully wasteland-chaotic journey into New Vegas.
It asked us to “Step out of the Vault and into an evening crafted for the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. ones — an immersive escape into the...
The 98th Oscar Shortlists are here, and we’re thrilled to see DOC NYC’s selections sparkle yet again! In this year’s Documentary Feature race, a stunning 11 out of the 15 listed titles are DOC NYC selections, with 9 exact matches to our very own Short List! In the Documentary Shorts race, 10 of the 15 […]
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MTFB OSCAR TAKE AFTER SHORT LISTS: CINEMATOGRAPHY, EDITING, SCORE AND SONG
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1) Sinners (3)
2) One Battle after Another (2)
3) Hamnet (1)
4) Frankenstein (4)
5) Train Dreams (5)
Others: F1, Marty Supreme and Nouvelle Vague....
MTFB OSCAR TAKE: SECOND PREDICTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL, DOCUMENTARY AND ANIMATED FEATURES AND CASTING
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
1) Sentimental Value (Norway) (1)
2) It Was Just an Accident (France) (2)
3) The Secret Agent (Brazil) (3)
4) No Other Choice (South Korea) (4)
5) Sirat (Spain) (NR)
Others: The Voice of hind...
India’s Kerala government has directed organizers of the 30th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) to proceed with all scheduled screenings, escalating a standoff with New Delhi after the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting denied censor exemption clearance to 19 selected films. The decision follows days of disruption at the state-backed international festival, which […]
Dhurandhar (2025) is a defiant spy thriller that entertains, educates and exposes the fault lines of global hypocrisy © by film critic Lalit Rao (FIPRESCI) [lalitmax2022@gmail.com]
Introduction : When a commercial film turns into a political flashpoint
Cinema occasionally reaches a moment where it ceases to function merely as entertainment and instead becomes a...