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‘Expendables 4’ Review: Action-Packed Farewell with Humor Resembles ‘Meg 2: Part 2’

‘Expendables 4’ Review: Action-Packed Farewell with Humor Resembles ‘Meg 2: Part 2’

Sequels, and sequels of sequels, have trouble differentiating themselves from their brethren from time to time. But Expendables 4 (or Expend4bles, as this fourth and final entry in the mercenary-based action series has been marketed), indisputably takes the cake for recycling previously used material

September 22, 2023
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Rob Marshall’s Live Action Adaptation of Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ Receives Positive Reviews Above and Below the Sea

Rob Marshall’s Live Action Adaptation of Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ Receives Positive Reviews Above and Below the Sea

Disney’s attempts to reinvent their animated classics as live action versions has

August 23, 2023
‘Mountains’ Review: Monica Sorelle’s Impressive Directorial Debut at Toronto Film Festival Portrays Touching Story of Haitian Family in Miami

‘Mountains’ Review: Monica Sorelle’s Impressive Directorial Debut at Toronto Film Festival Portrays Touching Story of Haitian Family in Miami

Watching Mountains, which just made its international debut as part of the

September 18, 2023
FilmmakerFocus’s Doc Talk Podcast: Exploring the Turbulent Documentary Market and the Academy Branch’s Bias Towards Popular Filmmakers

FilmmakerFocus’s Doc Talk Podcast: Exploring the Turbulent Documentary Market and the Academy Branch’s Bias Towards Popular Filmmakers

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…,”

September 20, 2023
‘Club Zero’: Anorexia Takes Over School in Jessica Hausner’s Disturbing Cannes Film Festival Entry

‘Club Zero’: Anorexia Takes Over School in Jessica Hausner’s Disturbing Cannes Film Festival Entry

Bleak, clean spaces arranged in ominously geometrical order: Jessica Hausner’s eye for

August 23, 2023
Wim Wenders’ ‘Perfect Days’ Receives Gentle Praise at Cannes Film Festival

Wim Wenders’ ‘Perfect Days’ Receives Gentle Praise at Cannes Film Festival

The dignity of labor is explored with gentle humor and a very melancholy sense of joie de vivre in Wim Wenders’ second

August 23, 2023
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Catherine Breillat’s ‘Last Summer’ Breaks Sexual Taboos in Cannes Film Festival Debut

Catherine Breillat’s ‘Last Summer’ Breaks Sexual Taboos in Cannes Film Festival Debut

Still breaking boundaries at the age of 74, French filmmaker Catherine Breillat returns to the Cannes competition with a film that squarely

August 23, 2023
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Sebastian Maniscalco and Robert De Niro Join Forces in Unamusing Generational Comedy: A Review of ‘About My Father’

Sebastian Maniscalco and Robert De Niro Join Forces in Unamusing Generational Comedy: A Review of ‘About My Father’

If Sebastian Maniscalco really is the most popular comic in the country at the moment, you’d never know why from his film

August 23, 2023
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Gerard Butler and Ric Roman Waugh Reunite for Spy Thriller ‘Kandahar’

Gerard Butler and Ric Roman Waugh Reunite for Spy Thriller ‘Kandahar’

Kandahar reunites is director Rick Roman Waugh with Gerard Butler, after they made Angel Has Fallen and Greenland together. This time they

August 23, 2023
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Japanese Filmmaker Takeshi Kitano Disappoints with Samurai Epic ‘Kubi’ at Cannes Film Festival

Japanese Filmmaker Takeshi Kitano Disappoints with Samurai Epic ‘Kubi’ at Cannes Film Festival

In the early ’90s, Japan’s Takeshi “Beat” Kitano was on a roll, with a superb string of nuanced crime movies that stood

August 23, 2023
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Netflix Acquires Todd Haynes’ Highly Anticipated Cannes Film ‘May December’ for $11M in North American Rights Deal

Netflix Acquires Todd Haynes’ Highly Anticipated Cannes Film ‘May December’ for $11M in North American Rights Deal

EXCLUSIVE: After an old-style all night auction, Netflix is finalizing an $11M deal for North American rights to May December, the Todd

August 23, 2023
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Lily-Rose Depp Shines as a Pop Star in Sam Levinson’s Mysterious HBO Series ‘The Idol’ at Cannes Film Festival

Lily-Rose Depp Shines as a Pop Star in Sam Levinson’s Mysterious HBO Series ‘The Idol’ at Cannes Film Festival

It’s hard to know what to say about Sam Levinson’s already controversial HBO series except that it says quite a lot about

August 23, 2023
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‘Club Zero’: Anorexia Takes Over School in Jessica Hausner’s Disturbing Cannes Film Festival Entry

‘Club Zero’: Anorexia Takes Over School in Jessica Hausner’s Disturbing Cannes Film Festival Entry

Bleak, clean spaces arranged in ominously geometrical order: Jessica Hausner’s eye for threatening design was destined to alight, sooner or later, on

August 23, 2023
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“Man In Black” Film Review: Cannes Documentary by Wang Bing Offers Raw and Compelling Look at Chinese Composer Wang Xilin’s Dissent

“Man In Black” Film Review: Cannes Documentary by Wang Bing Offers Raw and Compelling Look at Chinese Composer Wang Xilin’s Dissent

Chinese director Wang Bing is more than content to take his time. His documentary Youth (Spring), which premiered in competition at Cannes

August 23, 2023
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Cannes Film Festival 2023 to Feature FilmmakerFocus’s Movie Reviews

Cannes Film Festival 2023 to Feature FilmmakerFocus’s Movie Reviews

UPDATED with latest: The Cannes Film Festival kicked off this year with opening-night movie Jeanne du Barry, with Deadline on the ground

August 23, 2023
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