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2017 Los Angeles Film Festival Winners Announced

The 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival is wrapping up today and with that the winners of this year’s festival have been announced. Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and Daniel Powell‘s Becks won the U.S. Fiction Award, Diego RosThe Night Guard won the World Fiction Award, and Karen

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LAFF 2017: DESOLATION Review

Weighing more heavily on our patience than our nerves, Sam Patton’s feature debut, Desolation, is a slow-burn horror flick that never quite goes anywhere, making the proceedings feel inconsequential and lackluster.

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Japan Cuts 2017 Announces Lineup

New York’s Japan Cuts film festival is getting set to kick off beginning July 13th and running through the 23rd. The festival, which celebrates contemporary Japanese cinema, is celebrating its 11th year with a massive lineup, which you can check out below.

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BFF 2017: SHUT UP ANTHONY Review

Continuing its successful festival run after premiering at Cinequest a few months ago, writer-director Kyle Eaton’s Shut Up Anthony just won a Spirit Award for Narrative Feature at the recently concluded Brooklyn Film Festival...and with good reason.

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2017 Brooklyn Film Festival Announces Winners

This year’s Brooklyn Festival Festival wrapped up yesterday and the winners have officially been announced. Rodrigo ReyesLupe Under The Sun won the Grand Chameleon Award in additional to nabbing Best Narrative Feature.

Take a look below at the full list of winners

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DWF 2017: Award Winners Announced


This year’s Dances With Films Festival has just wrapped, and with that, the various winners have been announced.  Lliam Worthington‘s drama One Less God won the Grand Jury Award for Best Feature along with the Industry Choice Award. 

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2017 New York Asian Film Festival Announces Lineup

The 16th edition of the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) is set to kick off June 30th through July 16th, and today the full lineup of films has been announced. This year’s festival will include 57 feature films, with 3 International Premieres,

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DEAN Review

Writer/director/star Demetri Martin delivers in his directorial debut, Dean, a story about a man struggling to make sense of his world. Known to many as a contributor on The Daily Show and his show Important Things with Demetri Martin, the stand-up comedian is also a New York Times best-selling author, who undoubtedly pulls from his real-life experiences in this movie about an illustrator named Dean who is stuck in a rut.

DWF 2017: ONE LESS GOD Gets A Trailer

A new trailer has been released for Lliam Worthington‘s One Less God, which is set to premiere at this year’s Dances With Films festival in Los Angeles. The film is based on the true story of the 2008 terrorist attack on an Indian

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Cannes 2017: Award Winners Announced

This year’s Cannes Film Festival has officially wrapped in France and with that this year’s coveted awards have been announced. Ruben Östlund‘s (Force Majeure) dramatic comedy The Square won the Palme d’Or, with the Jury Prize going to Andrey Zvyagintsev‘s (Leviathan) Loveless. Take a look below

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THE SURVIVALIST Review

If you thought John Hillcoat’s post-apocalyptic drama The Road was a little too upbeat and light, then Stephen Fingleton’s feature debut, The Survivalist, will be right up your alley. In what could be the feel-bad movie of the year, Fingleton presents a gritty future, where the world’s oil supplies are depleted and the population has dwindled. We’ve seen this backdrop several times before but not in such an unflinching and graphically real way.