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Léa Seydoux Leads Bertrand Bonello’s Epic, Time-Spanning Sci-Fi Warning About A.I. [Venice]
You didn’t expect French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello to make a conventional sci-fi, did you? Good, because “The Beast” is far from it. It all starts in 2044 with beautiful actress Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) in desperate need of a job. To…
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Imogen Poots Leads A Moody & Jagged Drama About Heiress Turned Marxist Radical [Telluride]
Based on a true story, they said, based on actual authentic events, but what does any of that matter if the actual story presented on screen doesn’t really resonate clearly or deeply? That’s the frustrating part of “Baltimore,” an intriguing…
Read more![Kevin Macdonald’s Fashion Doc Flirts With Cliché & Struggles To Tell A Bigger Story [Venice]](https://www.filmibee.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/high-and-low-john-galliano-1.jpg)
Kevin Macdonald’s Fashion Doc Flirts With Cliché & Struggles To Tell A Bigger Story [Venice]
One viewing of “High & Low – John Galliano, “a documentary chronicling the impressive rise of British fashion designer John Galliano and his equally jarring fall from grace, should be more than sufficient to convince even the most uneducated of…
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The Inflection Scheme Featured, Reviews Film Threat
For drama and theater students, James H. Lee’s short film, The Inflection Scheme, explores the idea of status and how it propels a story forward. Shaun Bedgood plays a shady crypto-trader who is in serious trouble. His current positions have…
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Wrath of Khan Making Of Book Review
Can you believe that still to this day I’ve not seen one episode or one Star Trek movie, that’s quite some record as I always batted for Team Star Wars but after flicking through a few pages of this book,…
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#ChadGetsTheAxe Featured, Reviews Film Threat
As Social Media ages past the 2000s, when it begins, it will morph into a farcical mess. There have been several films that have alluded to this situation. Still, no one quite revels in it the way Travis Bible and…
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Alexander Payne And Paul Giamatti Reunite For a ’70s Nostalgia Dramedy
TELLURIDE – Considering the success and adoration of “Sideways,” it’s surprising it took Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti this long to find another film to make together. Almost 20 years later, the director and actor have reteamed for “The Holdovers,”…
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‘Rustin’ Telluride Review: Colman Domingo
TELLURIDE – Every year, almost without fail, there is an American hero, somehow lost to history, who finally gets their moment on the big screen. This year’s honoree is Bayard Rustin, a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement who…
Read more![Ibrahim Nash’at’s Terrifying Film Documents The Taliban’s Takeover Of Afghanistan [Venice]](https://www.filmibee.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/79250-HOLLYWOODGATE_-_Official_still__1_.jpg)
Ibrahim Nash’at’s Terrifying Film Documents The Taliban’s Takeover Of Afghanistan [Venice]
A scene early in Ibrahim Nash’at’s chilling new documentary “Hollywoodgate” makes clear the stakes of Nash’at’s undertaking. Invited by the Taliban to film a top leader, the new air force commander Malawi Mansour, and a lower-ranking Taliban Mukhtar, after the…
Read more![Lily James & A Starry Cast Can’t Save A Painfully Dull Italian Drama [Venice]](https://www.filmibee.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/finally-dawn-lily-james-venice.jpg)
Lily James & A Starry Cast Can’t Save A Painfully Dull Italian Drama [Venice]
Time is a relative construct stretched to the limits of elasticity by Saverio Constanzo with the period drama “Finally Dawn.” The bloated 140-minute runtime begins at a cinema in Rome in 1953 as three women watch the final scene of…
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Errol Morris’s Latest Works In A Familiar Style, But With New Thematic Concerns [Telluride]
Early in his new film “The Pigeon Tunnel,” Errol Morris creates one of the most vivid images of a career packed with them: a man in a suit walking through a meadow filled with mirrors. He’s always had a gift…
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Gordon Gino and Fred Viva Espana Review: One Last Rodeo
It’s so good to have these three together and knowing it’ll be their last series together I’ll make the most of every second. Here is our Gordon Gino and Fred Viva Espana review. Credit – ITV Having traversed some of…
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