‘The Girl and the Spider’ review: A tangled web provides a fascinating contemplation of human interaction [Grade: B]
In their second feature film, The Girl and the Spider, Swiss brothers Ramon and Silvan Zürcher continue to explore the themes and style that they... Read More
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Illumination’s ‘Sing 2’ to world premiere at AFI FEST
Today, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced that the World Premiere of Illumination’s Sing 2, the new animated feature film written and directed by Garth... Read More
Jane Campion’s ‘The Power of the Dog’ added to AFI FEST red carpet premieres
Jane Campion’s award-winning film will screen at the TCL Chinese Theatre on November 11 Today, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced that critically acclaimed The Power... Read More
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 (Halle Berry) is a mixed... Read More
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 (AFI) announced today the full... Read More
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 this year’s Sundance Film Festival... Read More
‘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 debut Swan Song (not to... Read More
‘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 by Reinaldo Marcus Green with... Read More
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 festival will open with the... Read More
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, they think they know you.... Read More
How Writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt and the Oscar-nominated Hair and Makeup Team Behind ‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Twisted Cinderella Into a Gruesome Cautionary Tale [VIDEO INTERVIEW] 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 138 – ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’ (Chantal Akerman, 1975) with special guest Morgan Roberts 
SXSW Adds 50+ Titles to 2026 Festival Slate Including ‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Two Thrillers with Adam Scott 
Interview: ‘A Poet’ filmmaker Simón Mesa Soto on How His Literary Madcap Comedy Came to Be