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Halle Berry is down for the count but up for the challenge in first trailer for directorial debut ‘Bruised’

Netflix has released the first trailer for Bruised, the feature directorial debut of Academy Award winner Halle Berry. Jackie Justice… Read More

October 14, 2021

2021 AFI FEST announces full lineup; adds ‘Parallel Mothers’ to red carpet premieres

Full lineup features 6 world premieres Films are 51% women-directed and 39% directed by BIPOC filmmakers The American Film Institute… Read More

October 13, 2021

NEON to screen Ninja Thyberg’s Sundance hit ‘Pleasure’ at AFI FEST 2021

NEON has acquired North American rights to Ninja Thyberg’s daring debut feature Pleasure, which made its world premiere to critical acclaim at… Read More

October 7, 2021

‘Swan Song,’ ‘Bruised’ to world premiere at AFI FEST 2021

Today, AFI FEST announced that this year's fest will include the World Premieres of Academy Award winner Benjamin Cleary’s feature directorial… Read More

September 28, 2021

‘King Richard’ to close AFI Fest 2021

Today, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced that AFI FEST 2021 will close with Warner Bros. Pictures’ King Richard, directed… Read More

September 15, 2021

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘tick, tick…BOOM!’ to open AFI FEST

AFI FEST 2021 has officially announced that the 35th edition of the festival will take place November 10–14, 2021. The… Read More

August 11, 2021

AFI FEST Review: The brilliant ‘Belushi’ captures a complicated artist by those who knew him best

One of the biggest problems with fame, I would imagine, is the sense that, because everyone knows who you are,… Read More

October 18, 2020

AFI FEST Review: ‘Sound of Metal’ is thunderous

(Amazon Studios) Writer/director Darius Marder’s new film, The Sound of Metal, explores, quite beautifully and somewhat elegiacally, how losing all… Read More

October 18, 2020

AFI FEST Review: ‘Whirlybird’ is a fascinating chronicle of the birth of breaking news

courtesy of AFI FEST I live in Los Angeles, and I can tell you two things are ubiquitous:  helicopters and… Read More

October 17, 2020

AFI FEST Review: ‘I’m Your Woman’ flips the script on your dad’s mob drama

Rachel Brosnahan and Arinzé Kene star in I'M YOUR WOMAN (Courtesy of Amazon Studios) Hollywood, despite its recent struggles, still… Read More

October 16, 2020

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