Been Here Stay Here (David Usui, 2024) 3½ out of 5 stars Director David Usui makes his solo-feature debut with Been Here Stay Here, a documentary portrait of Tangier Island, located in Virginia’s portion of the Chesapeake Bay. Since the mid-1800s, the island has lost two-thirds of its land mass and is projected to essentially […]
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I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not (Marina Zenovich, 2025) 3½ out of 5 stars Born in 1943, actor and writer Chevy Chase became an overnight sensation with the unexpected success of the sketch-comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL), thanks to the “Weekend Update” segment he created and headlined. Though he would only stay on SNL […]
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It always amazes me how different a given year’s selection of films can be. Sometimes, I find the bulk of the big-studio offerings unbearable and so my Top 10, as a result, features many more indie and foreign selections, while at other times my picks run more of a gamut. In 2014, I even had […]
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Whether in narrative or documentary, few years have produced so many films with such unique approaches to the beauty, violence, and pain of our world. And though there were perhaps fewer notable films that I loved, there was probably more than an average amount that I really liked. It was a wonderful year for horror, […]
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Top L–R: La Tierra Del Valor (The Home of the Brave), Mangittatuarjuk (The Gnawer of Rocks), Luigi, The Bird’s Placebo Center Row L–R: Candy Bar,
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By Lucy Spicer It’s official — we’ve bid farewell to 2025 and are excitedly stepping into a new year full of new stories. And though we’re mere weeks away from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, one thing we’re not leaving behind is the flock of Sundance Institute–supported projects and artists from the past year (and […]
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PARK CITY, UTAH, December 17, 2026 — The nonprofit Sundance Institute today announced additional honorees for the 2026 Sundance Film Festival’s annual fundraiser, Celebrating Sundance
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The Red Nation Film Festival has announced the winners of the 2020 Red Nation Film Festival Awards, and Loretta Todd’s “Monkey Beach” swept with Best Picture, Lead Actress, Lead Actor and Best Director.
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MTFB OSCAR TAKE: SECOND PREDICTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL, DOCUMENTARY AND ANIMATED FEATURES AND CASTING
Here's MTFB's third round of Oscar nomination predictions for these four categories.
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
1) Sentimental Value (Norway) (1)
2) It Was Just an Accident (France) (2)
3) The Secret Agent (Brazil) (3)
4) Sirat (5)
5) No...
Filmmaker and director Danny A. Abeckaser announces the digital release of his new feature film 12 HOURS IN OCTOBER on January 6, 2026, following its theatrical opening on December 14, 2025 that aligned with the recent anniversary of the October 7 Nova Music Festival attack in Israel. A visceral, character-driven drama, the film chronicles the first twelve hours of that day, offering...