International Features
Opening This Week: GODZILLA MINUS ZERO, PARADISE LOST, RAMAYANA: RISE OF A LEGEND
Plus: 'Wild Horse Nine,' 'Club Kid,' 'Hen,' 'Mouse,' 'Being Heumann,' 'Trauma or, Monsters All,' 'The Last Temptation of Becky.'
Friday One Sheet: DUNE PART 3
Like everything with WB and Denis Villeneuve's Dune franchise, things are designed and presented with polished perfection. I do not believe we have highlighted any of the key art from the franchise in this column previously, though. So here we...
Echoes: What Does a 13-Minute Oscar-Qualifying Short Film Mean for Pakistan's Short Film Industry?
I've talked at length about how the Pakistani film industry has always suffered from limited resources, lack of funding, and insufficient training for newcomers, but time and again, a short film has proven that Lollywood can shine through, no matter...
Now Playing: WICKER, WILDWOOD, CLAYFACE, POSSIBLE LOVE
Plus: 'A Talent for Murder' and 'Klara and the Sun.'
Friday One Sheet: THE PRESTIGE @ 20
Arguably Christopher Nolan's best film, The Prestige returns to the biggest of screens, blown up from its gorgeous 35mm photography to screen via 70mm and IMAX presentations, just over twenty years after its original release in 2006. The film has...
Opening This Week: WICKER Man, WILDWOOD Rescue, CLAYFACE Horror
Plus: 'A Talent for Murder,' 'Klara and the Sun,' 'Possible Love.'
Now Playing: WHALEFALL, STREET FIGHTER, MUSK, YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING
Plus: 'Ken Russell's The Devils,' 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,' 'Sense and Sensibility,' 'Once Upon a Time in Harlem,' 'La Bola Negra,' 'Crawlers.'
Friday One Sheet: HURRICANNA
Francesca Gregorini's look at the final days of model, actress, billionaires wife, and eventual celebrity punchline, Anna Nicole Smith, gets the arthouse marketing treatment with this 'slide puzzle' style key art. It features an out-of-focus Sylvia Hoeks as Smith in...
Echoes: Do Pakistani Films Need International Recognition to Prove Their Worth?
Iram Parveen Bilal's Wakhri (2024) won the Best Director Feature Film award at the 5th Yellowstone International Film Festival (YIFF) in New Delhi, India. Co-produced and directed by Iram Parveen, the drama film is inspired by the life of late...
Opening This Week: WHALEFALL Swallowed, STREET FIGHTER Mauled, KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS Restored
Plus: 'Musk,' ''You Can See Everything,' 'Crawlers,' 'Sense and Sensibility,' 'La Bola Negra,' 'Once Upon a Time in Harlem,' 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.'
HALLOWIEBE OVERDRIVE: This Is NOT A Review...
I normally don't review Dutch movies aimed at children, but there is a first time for everything and last year that was what happened with Hallowiebe, a fun family film with a Halloween theme. I am a big fan of...
Now Playing: OTHER MOMMY, FJORD, ANIMALS, TENZING
Plus: 'Once Upon a Time in the Middle East,' 'The Beast,' 'The Social Reckoning.'
Friday One Sheet: MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE
It has been 20 years since Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette was booed at its Cannes debut, before becoming an instant cult classic in its commercial release. I remember the splashy marketing, the contrast of a lavishly produced period picture with...
Echoes: HANGING BY A WIRE, Pakistan's First Academy Award Documentary Entry, Was Shot Entirely on a Phone
On the morning of August 22, 2023, people in the Allai Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, looked up. No one could believe their eyes when they saw a cable car hanging hundreds of feet above, suspended by the last cable that was...
Opening This Week: OTHER MOMMY, FJORD, ANIMALS, TENZING
Plus: 'Once Upon a Time in the Middle East,' 'The Beast,' 'The Social Reckoning.'
Now Playing: VERITY, DIGGER, BEWARE BOIUNA, GHOST IN THE CELL
Plus: 'Appofeniacs' and 'Misty Green.'
Echoes: Pakistan Wants A Film Industry. Does It Have the Crew to Build One?
The recently launched Punjab Film City is like a light at the end of a dark tunnel for the Pakistani film industry, since enough has been discussed about the lack of resources and weak infrastructure in this area. This is,...
Now Playing: NEVER AFTER DARK Frights, PRIMETIME Boldness, YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER Demands
Of the six new genre films that we're highlighting today, I've seen three, and of those, Dave Boyle's Never After Dark stands out. Our critic J Hurtado goes into much more detail in his review, linked below, but I'll add...
Echoes: The Changing Art of Pakistani Film Posters
Pakistani cinema had streets, walls, billboards, and cinema entrances long before a YouTube trailer or social media existed. One year after independence, Pakistan entered cinema with its first film, Teri Yaad, which ran for five weeks on cinema screens, as...
Opening This Week: NEVER AFTER DARK, PRIMETIME, YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER
Plus: 'Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!,' 'Heart of the Beast,' 'Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries.'
