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‘Touch’ Review: Baltasar Kormákur’s Melancholy Lost-Love Story Is Familiar But Charming
On the surface, Touch seems to be a sudden change of pace for Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, a quiet and polished film-of-the-book (in this case, the novel of the same name by fellow countryman Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson) that could easily pass for a BBC…
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‘Twisters’ Review: Disaster Movie Reboot Offers Spectacle But Little Substance
The original Twister, released in 1996, emerged during a golden age in Hollywood that erased the previously held threshold that kept A-list actors away from B-movie material. It didn't get much better than casting John Malkovich as Cyrus the Virus in Jerry Bruckheimer's 1997 blockbuster bruiser Con Air…
‘Fly Me To The Moon’ Review: Scarlett Johansson And Channing Tatum Fire On All Cylinders In A Screwy Space-Race Rom-Com
Chemistry has always been Hollywood's secret sauce, and, for rom-coms at least, the high-water mark remains the pairing of Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Most cineastes can name their first collaboration (Pillow Talk in 1959), but the others — Lover Come Back…
Karlovy Vary Reveals Award Winners: Mark Cousins’ Doc ‘A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things’ Takes The Crystal Globe
The 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 28 – July 6) came to a close this evening with an awards ceremony that saw Mark Cousins' essay film A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things win the main prize in the festival's Crystal Globe competition. Narrated by Tilda Swinton and — in Cousins'…
Casting Director Francine Maisler Reveals Secrets From The Casting World And Talks ‘Joker: Folie À Deux’: “Lady Gaga’s Going To Blow Your Mind” – Karlovy Vary
As the Academy prepares to debut an award for casting directors at the 2026 Oscars, the timing was right for Francine Maisler to travel this week to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic for a tribute organized by its Industry Days office. Taking the stage for a KVIFF Talk…
‘Xoftex’ Review: Noaz Deshe’s Delirious Refugee Story Captures The Eternal Disorientation Of The Stateless Mind – Karlovy Vary
It wouldn't be a film festival without at least one timely, harrowing emigrant story, but just when you might think the stylistic possibilities have been exhausted — from documentary, to vérité-style fiction and occasionally a dash of deadpan comedy (like Ben Sharrock's wonderful Limbo, 2020) — along…
Football Fever Hits Karlovy Vary As European Championships Reach Knockout Stage
“I’m sorry for you, and I’m sorry for me," Viggo Mortensen quipped to an Italian journalist Sunday morning before a press conference at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
The comment was a reference to the European Football Championships, currently taking place over the Czech border in Germany, and…
Ti West Interview: The ‘MaXXXine’ Director Ends The ‘X’ Trilogy With A Look At The Seedy Side Of Hollywood In The Excessive ’80s – Karlovy Vary
Christmas has come early for genre fans this year with the release of MaXXXine, the third and perhaps not-so-final part of a horror trilogy that began in 2022 with X, a splatterfest set in the '70s porn industry. Mia Goth was director Ti West's leading lady, playing both Maxine Mink, the leading lady of…
The 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Opens With A Nostalgic Look Back To The ’90s
The 58th Karlovy Vary Film International Film Festival kicked off with a very personal milestone, commemorating 30 years since the event was taken over by the programming team of Jiří Bartoška and the late journalist Eva Zaoralová. The veteran actor, now 77, gave the festival cause for concern last year…
‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Review: Lupita Nyong’o Stands Out In A Melancholy Action-Horror Prequel
Perhaps emboldened by the critical success of the “Long, Long Time” episode of HBO's The Last of Us, production company Platinum Dunes takes the third episode in its post-apocalyptic A Quiet Place franchise into surprisingly melancholy territory. It's an…
‘MaXXXine’ Review: Ti West And Mia Goth’s Horror Trilogy Comes To A Satisfyingly Bloody Conclusion
Ti West's decades-spanning horror trilogy, which began in the late '70s with X (2022) and then jumped back over half a century for the same year's WW1 prequel Pearl, now fast-forwards to the mid-'80s with a capper that requires a little more thought than its gory, crowd-pleasing predecessors. You'd be…
‘Tim Burton Untitled Docuseries’ Review: An Insightful Portrayal Of Hollywood’s Gothic Disruptor – Tribeca Film Festival
This four-part, so-far-untitled documentary series about the rise and rise of Hollywood's least likely marquee-name director starts out with a tribute from Christopher Walken that will be very hard for the next three instalments to match. In that inimitable… sta-cc-a-to… WAY… of his, the Sleepy Hollow…
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