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Olmo Schnabel's 'Pet Shop Days', EP'd by Martin Scorsese to finally release in the US

E. Nina Rothe March 12, 2025

Starting out limited, in NYC and LA, the film is a wonder to behold and Schnabel, a filmmaker to watch.

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In Features, Film, Interviews Tags Martin Scorsese, Jeremy O. Harris, Giovanni Corrado, Raffaella Viscardi, Moreno Zani, Malcom Pagani, Renato Ragosta, Livio Strazzera, Theo Niarchos, Aimone Ripa Di Meana, PJ Van Sandwijk, Peter Brant Jr., Michel Franco, Reka Posta, Jack Irv, Galen Core, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Willem Dafoe, Peter Sarsgaard, Maribel Verdú, Jordi Mollà, Camille Rowe, Emmanuelle Seigner, Louis Cancelmi, Olmo Schnabel, Utopia, Pet Shop Days, Venice International Film Festival, Roxy Cinema NYC, Now Instant Image Hall LA, Hand of Dante, Olatz López Garmendia
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Anthony Mackie is Sam Wilson, the new Captain America, in ‘Captain America: Brave New World’

Why 'Captain America: Brave New World' got me into Marvel films. Wholeheartedly

E. Nina Rothe February 21, 2025

With a dissent in popular opinion and critics seemingly agreeing this is one of the weakest installment of the franchise, I’m here to throw the tables upside down and explain why I love Anthony Mackie in the tight-fitting costume of the world-saving superhero, but also how I got into the film way more than I should have.

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In Film, Features Tags Captain America: Brave New World, Marvel Studios, Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Carl Lumbly, Giancarlo Esposito, Harrison Ford, The Avengers, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Red Hulk, Kendrick Lamar, i, Flaunt Magazine, Lars Eidinger, Bertold Brecht, Get It Done, Blackway, USA, Black Captain America, Avengers: Endgame, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Disney+, Nate Moore, Julius Onah, IMAX, Gersha Phillips, Laura Karpman, Dave Jordan
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Ryan Destiny and Brian Tyree Henry in a still from the film, photo courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios

'The Fire Inside' review: The true life story of a modern, strong, unapologetic and beautiful woman

E. Nina Rothe February 5, 2025

Winning doesn’t always bring about happiness and success. So the tale of gold winning boxer Claressa “T-Rex” Shields teaches us, in a new film written by Barry Jenkins and directed by Rachel Morrison, coming to UK cinemas on February 7th.

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In Features, review, Film Tags The Fire Inside, Barry Jenkins, Rachel Morrison, Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, Danielle Perkins, London Olympics gold medal women's boxing, Ryan Destiny, Brian Tyree Henry, Jason Crutchfield, American Boxing Association, Oluniké Adeliyi, Tamar-kali, Amazon MGM Studios
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DFI's 2024 Fall Grants announcement includes projects by Youssef Chebbi, Sofia Alaoui, Mehdi Hmili and Anas Khalaf

E. Nina Rothe January 30, 2025

As well as a feature doc by Iraqi actress and filmmaker Zahraa Ghandour, a web series by Palestinian storyteller Amer Shomali, Damien Ounouri’s and Adila Bendimerad’s follow up to festival fave ‘The Last Queen’, and shorts by Qatari talents Mahdi Ali Ali and Majid Al-Remaihi.

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In Film, Features Tags Doha Film Institute, DFI, Grants Fall 2024, Youssef Chebbi, Sofia Alaoui, Mehdi Hmili, Anas Khalaf, Zahraa Ghandour, Amer Shomali, Damien Ounouri, Adila Bendimerad, Mahdi Ali Ali, Majid Al-Remaihi, Qumra, lgeria, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, France, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Lesotho, Mexico, Morocco, Palestine, Spain, Tunisia, Fatma Hassan Alremaihi, Asmae El Moudir, The Mother of All Lies, Oscars, Bye Bye Tiberias, Lina Soualem, Amara, Michelle Keserwany, Camera Obscura, Viola Shafik, Rock Paper Sea, Randa Ali, The Good Spirit, Razan Madhoon, Gaza, In Memory of Times to Come, Larissa Sansour, Love-45, Minkaf, S.M. Al Thani, Plague, Selfless, Meriem Mesraoua, Tarfaya, The Joyful 1926, The Pearl, Noor Al-Nasr, Exile, Songs of Adam, Oday Rasheed, Spring Came On Laughing, Noha Adel, And Still I Rise, Djanis Bouzyani, Life After Siham, Namir Abdel, The Sixth Story, Ahmed Abd, Mother of Silence, My Armenian Phantoms, Tamara Stepanyan, Souraya Mon Amour, Nicolas Khoury, Souraya Baghdadi, Women of Sin, Noufissa Chara, Karima Nadir, Kir Mama, Kif Baba, B.A.H.R Alphabet, Sabine El Chamaa, A Lover’s Manifesto, Alfred Tarasi, Burden, Mohammed D. Fakhro, Amal Al Mutfah, Mohamed Megdoul, Valentin Noujaim, Youssef Michraf, Anissa Daoud, Maryam Al-Mohammed, Ethel Elmalik, Yassine Wahrani, Fahd Al-Nahdi, Obada Jarbi, Natural State, Men Home La Hon, Marie-Louise Elia, Julien Kobersy, Jean-Claude Boulos, Nadine, Christophe Saber, Druze, Visions of the After: Dark Cedar, Ali Hamouch, The Walled Off Hotel, Sleepless City, Guillermo Garcia Lopez, The Reserve, Pablo Pérez Lombardini, Fatna a Woman Named Rachid, Hélène Harder, Once Upon a Time in Shiraz, Hamed Zolfaghari, The Last Shore, Jean-François Ravagnan, Ancestral Visions of the Future, Lemohang Jeremiah Moses
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A still from ‘Yalla Parkour!’ by Areeb Zuaiter

There are eight DFI-supported titles in this year's Berlinale lineup

E. Nina Rothe January 23, 2025

And at least one in each section too, including Competition and the new Perspectives for first time features.

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In Film, Film Festivals, Features Tags Berlinale, DFI, Doha Film Institute, Palestine, Competition, Critics' Week, Forum Expanded, Generation Kplus, Berlinale Special, Perspectives, Critics Week, Fatma Hassan Alremaihi, Yunan, Ameer Fakher Eldin, Syria, Ukraine, Hanna Schygulla, Ancestral Visions of the Future, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Lesotho, Mohamed Rashad, The Settlement, Egypt, My Armenian Phantoms, Armenia, Tamara Stepanyan, Vigen Stepanyan, The Botanist, China, Jing Yi, Kazakhstan, Xinjiang, Yalla Parkour!, Areeb Zuaiter, Khartoum, Sudan, Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Phil Cox, East of Noon, Hala Elkoussi, JJ Lin (Jianjie Lin), Hippopotami, Sundance, Cannes Film Festival
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Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in a still from ‘Wicked’

Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jon M. Chu & Producer Marc Platt talk 'Wicked'

E. Nina Rothe November 18, 2024

We are living in challenging times. And what comes naturally when that happens? We turn to our memories, letting nostalgia take over from the difficult present. Because everything in our past can be reworked, re imagined and beautified and that’s just what our weary soul needs. And the film ‘Wicked’, releasing this week, allows us to dream too.

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In Film, Features, Interviews Tags Wicked, Ariana Grande, Shiz University, Wizard of Oz, Broadway, Jon M. Chu, Marc Platt, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum
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"It's really a human story": Billy Bob Thornton on Taylor Sheridan's upcoming series 'Landman'

E. Nina Rothe November 11, 2024

‘Landman’ is a “ten-hour movie” starring a stellar cast and featuring a story we may think we know, but really don’t — Big Oil, seen from the viewpoint of the proverbial little man.

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In Features, review, Streaming Tags Billy Bob Thornton, Demi Moore, Jon Hamm, Landman, Taylor Sheridan, Paramount +, Big OIl, Love Actually, James Jordan, Yellowstone, NY Times, Kevin Costner, America, Tommy Norris, Love & Hate Tour, The Boxmasters, Ali Larter, Michelle Randolph, Jacob Lofland, ASHBA beany, ASHBA beanie
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Peace is a co-production: Amos Gitai, Irene Jacob and Micha Lescot talk 'Why War' in Venice

E. Nina Rothe September 6, 2024

In his latest film, a crucial masterpiece titled ‘Why War’, Amos Gitai reminds us of an exchange of letters between Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychoanalysis, and Albert Einstein, the scientific genius. If only we’d listen to these brilliant men.

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In Features, Film, Interviews Tags A, Amos Gitai, Micha Lescot, Mathieu Amalric, Venice Film festival, Israel, Palestine, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Irene Jacob, Tel Aviv, Europe, Middle East, House, Barbican, London, Jérôme Kircher, Pablo Picasso, Guernica, Shikun, Olivier Assayas’s Hors du Temps, Malaise dans la civilisation, Virginia Woolf, The Three Guineas, Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, Un point lumière flou, Evgenia Rudenko’s & Alexander Plank, The War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness, The Jewish War, Josephus Flavius, Maurice Ravel Kaddish, Benjamin Britten War Requiem, Op. 66 / Dies Irae - Lacrimosa dies illa, Alexey Kochetkov, Lament for Yitzhak, Aurora Sonora, Late Night Impro, Ernst Bloch, Schelomo, Louis Sclavis Kyoomars Musayyebi Simon, Markus Stockhausen, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice International Film Festival
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Why Karim Aïnouz's reworking of Katherine Parr's story in 'Firebrand' is the most important film you'll watch this fall

E. Nina Rothe September 3, 2024

Ever wonder why there are only male leaders and visionaries mentioned in your history books? Well, the key lies in the word itself — “his-story.” Thankfully, a film releasing this September in the UK revolutionizes the tale of Henry VIII and his last wife, by retelling the story from her POV.

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In Features, review, Film Tags Firebrand, Katherine Parr, Karim Ainouz, Jude Law, Alicia Vikander, King Henry VIII, Hélène Louvart, Elizabeth Fremantle, Henrietta and Jessica Ashworth, MetFilm Distribution, Sam Riley, Erin Doherty, Junia Rees, Patrick Buckley, Hans Holbein the Younger, Michael O’Connor, Helen Scott, Jenny Shircore, Gabrielle Tana, Ralph Fiennes, Tudor England, UK
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Venice Orizzonti opening film 'Nonostante' by Valerio Mastandrea is an ode to love and loss

E. Nina Rothe September 1, 2024

It’s not often that a film changes the chemistry of my beliefs. ‘Nonostante’ which in English is called ‘Feeling Better’ is one of those films and I’m better for watching it — also after interviewing its talented filmmaker and star.

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In Film, Features, Interviews Tags Nonostante, Valerio Mastandrea, Dolores Fonzi, Orizzonti film, Venice International Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia
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Cate Blanchett and Sasha Baron Cohen in a still from ‘Disclaimer’ by Alfonso Cuaron

Trailer released for 'Disclaimer': **Not to be watched if you can't handle entertainment

E. Nina Rothe August 7, 2024

“DISCLAIMER*

*Any resemblance to persons living or dead is not a coincidence.”

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In Features, Film Festivals Tags Martin Scorsese, Alfonso Cuaron, Disclaimer, Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, Sasha Baron Cohen, Apple TV+, Renée Knight, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Esperanto Filmoj, Anonymous Content, Gabriela Rodriguez, David Levine, Steve Golin, Emmanuel Lubezki, Bruno Delbonnel, Donald Sabourin, Carlos Morales, Finneas O’Connell, Trailer teaser
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Wildlife filmmaker Ashwika Kapur's 'Catapults to Cameras' nominated for prestigious award at Jackson Wild

E. Nina Rothe August 5, 2024

Roundglass Sustain, a non-profit foundation which commissioned this film, is the only conservation platform in India that collaborates with partners such as photographers,  filmmakers and NGO’s to create stories that impact change and behavior. 

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In Features, Film Tags Ashwika Kapur, Catapults to Cameras, Roundglass Sustain, India, wildlife, Kolkata, Panda Award, the green Oscar, New Zealand, Kakapo Parrot, Sirocco, BBC Natural History Unit, National Geographic., Netflix, Animal Planet, Discovery Network, Disney+, David Attenborough, Life in Colour, Suvrajyoti Chatterjee, Bengal, Jhargram, Jackson Wild Media Awards, USA, UK, Nature Film Awards, Apple TV, The Elephant Queen, The Redford Center, Watershed, Robert Redford, film, documentary, HEAL, Neha Dara, Washington D.C.
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'Deadpool and Wolverine': Cameos, bromance and a rocking soundtrack turn Marvel film into a worldwide hit

E. Nina Rothe July 30, 2024

In the first R-rated film for Marvel, and a marketing win for Disney all around, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman bring it, to an entertaining blockbuster that is this summer’s ‘Barbie’.

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In Features, Film Tags Deadpool and Wolverine, Marvel, Disney, Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, Henry Cavill, Blake Lively, Matthew McConaughey, Nathan Fillion, Wunmi Mosaku, Jon Favreau, Channing Tatum, Wesley Snipes, Jennifer Garner, Hogan, Chris Evans, Madonna, Like a Prayer, Good Riddance Time of Your Life, Green Day, Bye bye Bye, blockbuster, Erik Davis, Fandango, Rotten To, Rotten Tomatoes, Hollywood, The Hulk
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Joan Chen and Izaac Wang in a scene from Sean Wang’s ‘DÌDI’

Joan Chen, Izaac Wang and filmmaker Sean Wang talk 'DIDI', a film you simply cannot miss

E. Nina Rothe July 26, 2024

An American coming of age story like you’ve never watched on the big screen before, ‘DÌDI’ opens this weekend and it is a must watch. I caught up with the stars and the visionary filmmaker for a Zoom press conference and here are a couple of takeaways to whet your appetite.

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In Features, Interviews, Film Tags Joan Chen, Izaac Wang, Sean Wang, Didi, film, Nai Nai & Wai Po, Mandarin, Oscar-nominated, Shirley Chen, Zhang Li Hua, Sundance U.S. Dramatic Audience Award, U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast, Academy Awards, Universal Pictures
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'Why War' may be Amos Gitai's most important film to date and will screen at this year's Venice Film Festival

E. Nina Rothe July 24, 2024

For a man whose personal mission has been to “build bridges through cinema,” as he told La Repubblica newspaper in an interview just published this week, his latest film may prove the most important peace-making link yet.

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In Film, Features, Film Festivals Tags Amos Gitai, Why War, Israel, Palestine, Venice International Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, cinema, films, documentary, Shikun, Tel Aviv, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Kyoomars Musayyebi, Alexey Kochetkov, Louis Sclavis, Eric Gautier, Yuval Orr, Albert Einstein, Alberto Barbera, Sigmund Freud, Mathieu Amalric, Micha Lescot, Irène Jacob, Yael Abecassis, Keren Mor, J. Richard Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer, League of Nations, war
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Venice Film Festival line up includes latest from Amos Gitai, Scandar Copti, Pedro Almodóvar, plus a series from Alfonso Cuarón, Luca Guadagnino's 'Queer' and Pablo Larraín's 'Maria'

E. Nina Rothe July 23, 2024

All wrapped up with the Lady Gaga starrer ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’, Tunisian gem ‘Aïcha’ by Mehdi Barsaoui and ‘Wolfs’ starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt — talk about a festival for the stars!

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In Features, Film, Film Festivals Tags Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Amos Gitai, Scandar Copti, Pedro Almodovar, Pablo Larrain, Alfonso Cuaron, Why War, Lorenzo Mattotti, Queer, Luca Guadagnino, Joker: Folie à Deux, Aicha, Mehdi Barsaoui, Wolfs, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, Alberto Barbera, Happy Holidays, Göran Hugo Olsson, Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza, Iddu, Delphine and Muriel Coulin, The Quiet Son, Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, And Their Children After Them, Songs of Slow Burning Earth, Ukraine, Russia, Olha Zhurba, Russians at War, Anastasia Trofimova, Nicolas Winding Refn, Beauty is not a Sin, Allégorie citadine, Alice Rohrwacher, JR, Leos Carax, yna Khoudri, Cannes, Qumra, Plato, Marco Bellocchio, Se posso permettermi Capitolo II, Bobbio Film Festival, Maria, Angelina Jolie, Maria Callas, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, The Room Next Door, Pedro Almodovár, Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, John Turturro, William S. Burroughs, Daniel Craig, Jason Schwartzman, Cinecittà, Toni Servillo Elio Germano, Matteo Messina Denaro, The Order, Justin Kurzel, Jude Law, Tye Sheridan, Todd Phillips, Catherine Keener, Lady Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix, Joker, Diva Futura, Giulia Louise Steigerwalt, ietro Castellito, Riccardo Schicchi, Ciccionlina, One To One: John & Yoko, Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards, Asif Kapadia, 2073, Samantha Morton, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Disclaimer, Alfonso Cuar, Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, Families Like Ours, Thomas Vinterberg, M: Il figlio del secolo film, Joe Wright, Luca Marinelli, Mistress Dispeller, Elizabeth Lo, Pavement, Alex Ross Perry, Michael Esper, Peter Sarsgaard, Ben Chaplin, September 5, Tim Fehlbaum
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Image copyright Fondo Giuseppe Quatriglio, used with permission

A "dialogue between absence and presence": Costanza Quatriglio on her stunning, personal doc 'The Secret Drawer'

E. Nina Rothe July 16, 2024

The film, which world premiered at this year’s Berlinale, will enjoy its UK Premiere as part of the 3rd bi-annual Cinecittà Italian Doc Season, on July 20-21 at London’s Bertha DocHouse.

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In Features, Interviews, Film Tags Costanza Quatriglio, Giuseppe Quatriglio, Berlinale, Cinecittà Italian Doc Season, Bertha DocHouse, London, Food for Profit, Pablo D’Ambrosi and Giulia Innocenzi, Fragments of a Life Loved, Chloé Barreau, The Secret Drawer, Il cassetto segreto, documentary, journalism, review, Palermo, Sicily, The Island, Terramatta, Azzurra Primavera
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Karim Aïnouz's 'Firebrand' will be in UK cinemas starting September 6th courtesy of MetFilm

E. Nina Rothe July 9, 2024

And not a moment too soon if you ask me!

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In Film, Features Tags Firebrand, Karim Ainouz, MetFilm Distribution, MetFilm Group, Jude Law, Alicia Vikander, Katherine Parr, King Henry VIII, Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit, Simon Russell Beale, Eddie Marsan, Ruby Bentall, Bryony Hannah, Sam Riley, UK, Ireland, Carolyn Marks Blackwood, Gabrielle Tana, Ralph Fiennes, Philomena, Madame Satã, The Invisible Life, Motel Destino, Cannes Film Festival, Firebrand Trailer
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DreamWorks Animation launches brand new trailer for 'The Wild Robot' in Annecy

E. Nina Rothe June 11, 2024

The latest DreamWorks Animation title will be distributed by Universal and is a new adaptation of the literary sensation by Peter Brown.

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In Features, Film Festivals, Film Tags DreamWorks, Annecy Festival, The Wild Robot, Universal Pictures, Chris Sanders, Jeff Hermann, Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, What a Wonderful World, The Prince of Egypt, Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Bambi, Disney, Steven Spielberg, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Catherine O’Hara, Bill Nighy, Kit Connor, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill, Matt Berry, Ving Rhames, Peter Brown, Kris Bowers, Annecy International Animation Film Festival
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Three things I loved about 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' in Cannes

E. Nina Rothe May 23, 2024

I know, I know, I’m not the film’s target demographic, so instead of showing my age and complaining about the noise and video game aesthetics, I’ll share three things I loved about the latest installment of the series, directed and co-written by George Miller.

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In Film, Features Tags Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, George Miller, Mad Max, Mad Max: Fury Road, Charlize Theron, Anya Taylor-Joy, Alyla Browne, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, David Burke, Praetorian Jack, Dr. Dementus, Colin Gibson, New South Wales in Australia, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Furiosa trailer, Warner Bros
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