Chinese audiences pushed animation, action and historical war films to the top of 2025’s satisfaction charts, while comedies and romance all but disappeared from favor, according to new research unveiled at the 7th Hainan Island International Film Festival, China. In a forum presentation at the festival, Sun Xianghui, president of the China Film Art Research […]

Polen Ly’s “Becoming Human” has claimed the Golden Hanoman, the top prize at the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival (JAFF), which closed its milestone 20th anniversary edition in Yogyakarta on Dec. 6. “Captivating us with lyrical visual poetry and a tender meditation on memory, loss, and the fragile spaces that hold our shared stories, this film […]

Lawrence Kasdan’s The Accidental Tourist is a mature film, ostensibly a romantic drama but ultimately quite a moving study of grief. William Hurt and Kathleen Turner play a couple unable to cope with the death of their son, leading to their separation; he goes on to meet a very different type of woman played by […] The post The Accidental Tourist first appeared on Movie Wave.

written by Nina Sunko You know what they say – a picture is worth a thousand words. So it’s no surprise that a camera angle is one of the most important elements of a film, at least among those that can’t “speak” on their own. A well-chosen shot can tell you, in just a few […]

Erige Sehiri’s “Promised Sky” won top honors at the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday, capping a lively year for the Moroccan event, marked by swelling audiences and deeper integration into the global awards circuit. Heralded by Variety’s Tomris Laffly as “a unique drama about marginalized African immigrant women fighting for their dignity and place not […]

American actor Adrien Brody spoke about how he deals with the toll of “difficult” shoots like Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” which won him his second Best Actor Oscar earlier in the year, just over two decades after his first win for “The Pianist.” Speaking at the Red Sea Film Festival, which he is attending for […]

Generative AI is poised to reshape the supply of premium screen content, with VP of Chinese online media giant Tencent and CEO of Tencent Video Sun Zhonghuai forecasting that as much as a third of long-form film and animation could be “dominated by or deeply involving AI” within two years, despite lingering concerns around performance […]

In a wide-ranging conversation at the Singapore International Film Festival, acclaimed filmmaker Deepa Mehta reflected on her decades-long career, the controversies that have shadowed her most celebrated works, and her unwavering commitment to independent filmmaking. Mehta was speaking with longtime collaborator Hussain Amarshi, head of Mongrel Media, which has distributed her films. She will...

Laurence Fishburne is looking to step back behind the camera and is currently developing a directing project, “The Rule of Nines,” with producer and casting director Bonnie Timmermann (“I Origins,” “Roofman”) and actor André Holland (“Moonlight”). John Connor wrote the script. “The fact that I’ve been making films since I was 11 or 12 means […]

It’s about that time! Awards season is in full swing, and the Film Independent Spirit Awards will head to the Hollywood Palladium in mid-February — the perfect setting for an awards show that celebrates cinema’s boldest risk-takers. The Spirit Awards ceremony is one of the events during the season where indie storytellers loosen up and […] The post “Sorry, Baby,” “Peter Hujar’s Day,”...