The Great Performances of 2025
The remarkable year for film has already been captured in this feature of the ten best movies of the year, and this one with over 100 works cited on individual…
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Emily in Paris Season 5, but It’s Rome (Where She Wants To)
“That’s the problem with Rome: ancient history is everywhere.” –Emily, preaching a sermon Last year, when writing about Season 4 of the candy-coated Netflix series, I said, “After almost 4…
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The Great Craft of 2025
On Friday, the writers of this site lauded some of their favorite performances of 2025. Today, we go behind the camera to pick some of the great craft of the…
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The 10 Best Horror Films of 2025
The story of horror in 2025 is a story of triumph. In 2025, horror made up 17% of North American ticket sales, up from 4% a decade ago. Similarly, the…
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International and Indie Cinema on the Rise: A Report from the 97th Academy Awards
On the surface, last year’s Oscar night that celebrated studio filmmaking with 7 richly-deserved Academy Awards won by “Oppenheimer” couldn’t have been more different than this year’s. Contrastingly, the 97th…
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Sundance 2025: Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, SALLY, Selena y Los Dinos
This year’s Sundance Film Festival featured a number of women’s stories, especially among the documentaries. As one of the earliest films to play at the festival, Shoshannah Stern’s feature debut…
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This is Just the Beginning: Pamela Anderson on “The Last Showgirl”
Pamela Anderson gives the performance of her career as Shelly in Gia Coppola‘s melancholic drama “The Last Showgirl.” The oldest showgirl in Le Razzle Dazzle, the last revue of its…
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Light the Fuse: Lalo Schifrin (1932-2025)
The world lost one of its greatest musical talents on Thursday when the great Argentinian composer Lalo Schifrin died after complications from pneumonia. The sheer genius of Schifrin was evident…
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Our 10 Most Anticipated Films of the 2025 Fantasia Film Festival
The world’s largest genre film festival, Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival is one of the most exciting, not to mention lengthy (it typically runs two, sometimes nearly three weeks), fests…
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SDCC 2025: Celebrating ALL the Popular Arts
“Cease and desist!” A “lawyer” in an ACME t-shirt yelled up at the “Coyote vs. Acme” panel in the biggest room at San Diego Comic-Con, Hall H, the cavernous 6700-seat…
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