From Sundance to Spirit Awards, ‘Lurker’ Filmmaker Alex Russell Looks Back on a Really Good Year
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Hamnet is the hand that reaches across the stage and the screen and latches onto your soul.
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TIFF 2025: ‘Lucky Lu’ Captures the Fragile Dream of Immigrant Survival
Lucky Lu doesn’t make a spectacle of suffering. It insists instead on the small dignity of a man doing what ...
‘Vice Is Broke’ Breaks Down the Seduction of Cool
It’s the refusal to tie things up neatly that makes 'Vice Is Broke' resonate. The film is messy, exhilarating, frustrating, ...
‘Where Are You Really From’ Digs into the Dark Side of Identity and Desire
Elaine Hsieh Chou, author of Disorientation, produces seven varied and intriguing stories in her latest published collection, Where Are You ...
Manny Jacinto Charms and Swoons in ‘Freakier Friday’
Nisha Ganatra doesn’t reinvent the freaky wheel, but Freakier Friday gives fans of the original movie the nostalgia Gen X ...
Watch the Trailer for HIKARI’s ‘Rental Family’
Following the announcement from the Toronto International Film Festival that Japanese filmmaker HIKARI will receive the TIFF Emerging Talent Award, ...
‘Stranger Eyes’ Lingers Where It Looks
Yeo Siew Hua has made something slipperier, more self-reflexive: a story where surveillance is less a narrative device than a ...
The Soft Power of Quiet Films: How Silence Speaks in Asian Storytelling
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