The 2019 Brooklyn Film Festival will be kicking off in NY beginning May 31st, and the full lineup was announced today. Its 22nd edition will feature 133 titles from over 30 countries. Claudia Myers‘ Above the Shadows has been selected
The lineup for the 26th edition of the Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF) has revealed its full lineup, which will be taking place from June 5 – 9. Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer‘s Empty Metal has been chosen at the opening
New York’s Rooftop Films Summer Series is gearing up to kick off the end of this month, and today they announced the first crop of films that will be featured this year. Like previous years, the event will kick off with
The full lineup for this year’s Harlem International Film Festival has been announced, which will be kicking off its 14th edition May 16 – 19. Shaan Couture‘s New York Scherzo and Paul Starkman‘s Wheels will be the opening night double feature,
The 8th edition of the Oak Cliff Film Festival (OCFF) is gearing up to kick off in Dallas from June 6 – 9, and today the full lineup of films has been announced. Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe‘s Greener Grass
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Charlie Says is a formulaic biopic of Manson's followers whose execution borders on the irresponsible.
The full lineup for this year’s Cinepocalypse genre film festival in Chicago has been announced, with a solid number of entries both new and old to get all those horror hounds out there excited.
Cinepocalypse 2019 will be taking
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You may have never heard of the tech company General Magic, but you’re certainly familiar with the innovations that they sparked more than a decade before smartphones proliferated society.
The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival is wrapping up this weekend and with that the audience awards has been announced. David Charles Rodrigues‘ Gay Chorus Deep South and Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer‘s Plus One received the awards for documentary and
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Scheme Birds just won Best Documentary Feature at Tribeca and with good reason. It’s a beautifully shot, often heartbreaking slice-of-life tale that quickly pulls the viewer in with its captivating lead, who we just want to see turn out okay by the end.
The lineup for the 2019 Human Rights Watch Film Festival has been announced, which will be taking place in New York from June 13 - 20. 13 films will be presented this year, over half of which are directed by women.
The Tribeca Film Festival is wrapping up this weekend and earlier tonight the jury award winners have been announced. Phillip Youmans‘s Burning Cane won big, with Best Narrative Feature, Best Actor (Wendell Pierce), and Best Cinematography (Phillip Youmans). One of my
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More than just a Training Day clone, Crown Vic is an at-times-thrilling police story that acutely conveys both the physical and emotional turmoil police officers must contend with every night that they take out that squad car.
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Blow the Man Down is a well executed noir with plenty of comedic moments to bolster an already strong set of complex characters and a killer feature debut for its two directors.
A new clip has been released for Steven Cantor‘s upcoming documentary What Will Become of Us, which takes a look at the life of Sir Frank Lowry, a billionaire trying to make the decision on whether or not to sell his company.
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Although I was gutted by the time it reached its conclusion, The Gasoline Thieves is an assured and tremendously strong feature debut from Edgar Nito, which fluidly blends a coming-of-age drama with a timely and socially conscious topic that has claimed hundreds of lives.
