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Movie Reviews
The Ice Tower (La Tour de Glace) | Review
Hearts of Glass: Hadžihalilović Casts a Wintry Spell
A chilly...
Ballad of a Small Player | 2025 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Out Of Luck: Colin Farrell Can’t Save This Tale...
Interviews
Interview: Carolina Cavalli – The Kidnapping of Arabella
Using the road-movie narrative template to explore an unconventional...
Interview: Anu Valia – We Strangers (Work in Progress)
Sundance Film Festival short film award-winning filmmaker Anu Valia...
Interview: Jessica Palud – Being Maria
In 2018, political journalist and writer Vanessa Schneider released...
Interview: Sarah Friedland & Kathleen Chalfant – Familiar Touch
A work-in-progress participant at the 2023 American Film Festival...
Interview: Sarah Friedland – Familiar Touch (Work in Progress)
The folks at Music Box Films are releasing Sarah...
IndieSponge Episode: 2025 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Predictions
And we are off to the races - the 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival begins today and as per tradition Kevin Jagernauth...
IndieSponge Episode: 2025 Venice Film Festival – Our Top 5 Most Anticipated!
It’s the fall film festival season folks! And the...
IndieSponge Episode: An Officer and a Spy (2025) Movie Review
As we slowly prepare for our official launch and...
IndieSponge Episode: Emmanuelle (2025) Movie Review
Before our official launch, Kevin Jagernauth and I had...
IndieSponge Episode: 2025 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or Predictions
Before our official June relaunch, Kevin Jagernauth and I...
IndieSponge Episode: 2025 Cannes Palme d’Or Competition Reactions
We haven't yet relaunched, but Kevin Jagernauth and I...
IndieSponge Episode: 14 – 2020 Venice Film Festival Predictions
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, I invited Tommaso...
IndieSponge Episode 8 – 2020 Cannes vs. Venice, Apple TV+ Gets Behind Scorsese, HBO Max Gets Behind the Safdies
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, Kevin Jagernauth and...
IndieSponge Episode 7 – The Latest on Lanthimos, Zagar, Soderbergh, Chan-Wook & David Robert Mitchell
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, Kevin Jagernauth and...
IndieSponge Episode 6 – Wong Kar-Wai Plants “Blossoms”, Guadagnino Snorts “Scarface” & Blanchett registers for “Armageddon Time”
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, Kevin Jagernauth and...
For Your Consideration - Awards CoverageLatest
2026 Oscars: Is It a Panahi’s ‘It Was Just an Accident’ vs. Ben Hania’s ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ Duel?
With the October 1st deadline fast approaching, the field...
2026 Oscars: Critic Darling ‘Sirāt’ is NEON’s Dark Horse Contender in Best Intl. Feature Film Category
It "blew up" the Croisette back in May, landed...
2026 Oscars: NEON Has Lock on Best Intl. Feature Film Category with Filho’s ‘The Secret Agent’ Repping Brazil
In any given year, a film such as Venice...
2026 Oscars: Murat Fıratoğlu’ ‘One of Those Days When Hemme Dies’ is Turkey’s Nomination for Best Intl. Feature Film
Murat Fıratoğlu's masterstroke directorial debut (winner of the Special...
Mikey Madison, Zoe Saldaña, Kieran Culkin, Adrien Brody & More – What are the Oscar Actors Class of ’25 Working on Next?
Yesterday, we explored the creative futures for sixteen filmmakers...
Sean Baker, Edward Berger, Brady Corbet, Jesse Eisenberg… What are the Oscar Directors Class of ’25 Working on Next?
With only the American Cinema Editors Awards left on...
2025 Oscars: Who Will Win (Anora) and Who Should Win…?
This awards season has been filled with plenty of...
2025 Césars: Emilia Pérez Crowned Best Film, Souleymane’s Story Bikes Away with Four
Emilia Pérez won Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted...
2025 Cinema Eye Honors: No Other Land Takes Best Feature, Mati Diop Wins Best Direction
Last year’s top two documentary titles from the Berlinale...
American Indie Films NewsLatest
Fastvold Fast Track: Searchlight Clothed with ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Beneath Her Feet
After being in the awards conversation in previous years...
Beauty in the Breakdown: Sachs Directs Rami Malek & Rebecca Hall in 80s New York Musical ‘The Man I Love’
Coined as a "musical fantasia of a city under...
Hired Wheels: David Jonsson & Cooper Hoffman Drive India Donaldson’s ‘The Chaperones’
Last August we learned that India Donaldson plus A24...
‘Fleur’ Power: Ellie Foumbi Directs Halle Berry as Parisian Dominatrix
Some cool news for a filmmaker who cut her...
World Cinema News
The Ghost in the Machine: Kleber Mendonça Filho Plots 1930s Recife Dive from ‘Pictures of Ghosts’ DNA
Currently on an extended promotional tour since winning in...
Saint, Camera, Action!: Kaouther Ben Hania Frames a Divine Rebellion in ‘Mimesis’
Fresh off winning the Grand Jury Prize in Venice...
Fuller House: Dupieux Lands Kristen Stewart, Woody Harrelson, Emma Mackey, Charlotte Le Bon + Tim & Eric for ‘Full Phil’
Absurdist auteur par excellence, Quentin Dupieux has thrown us...
The Little Prince: Hirokazu Kore-eda Returns to ‘Air Doll’ Thematics with ‘Sheep In The Box’
Hirokazu Kore-eda has a penchant for bringing things to...
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