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Irish language film on Oscar shortlist

Coming of age drama An Cailin Ciuin is one of 15 moves on the shortlist in the Best International Film category.

The Independent UK

An Iranian masterwork opens with its director behind bars

After being arrested for creating antigovernment propaganda in 2010, the Iranian director Jafar Panahi was banned from making films for 20 years

The Independent UK

‘Top Gun,’ ‘Black Panther’ advance in Oscars shortlist

Blockbusters like “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “Avatar: The Way of Water” and pop stars like Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Taylor Swift and The Weeknd just got one step closer to getting Oscar nominations

The Independent UK

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‘Flash Gordon,’ ‘Get Carter’ director Mike Hodges dies at 90

British writer-director Mike Hodges, known for “Flash Gordon” and “Get Carter,” has died. He was 90.

Tribune News Service

Gabriel Byrne is set to star alongside John Wick star Keanu Reeves in new spin-off action movie

The 72-year-old is showing no signs of slowing down

Irish Mirror

'I watched the worst rated Christmas film of all time - and I was very confused'

Even as a self-confessed lover of 'terrible' films, this particular festive offering was too much for me to take.

Daily Record

Titanic at 25: how James Cameron captured 1990s anxieties with pure golden-age Hollywood style

Titanic (1997) arrived as disaster films were experiencing a comeback. Compared to the apocalypses visited on the world in Michael Bay’s Armageddon (1997) or Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day (1996), sinking a single ship may seem like small fry.

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Classic Christmas film 'It's A Wonderful Life' gets its own dedicated TV channel

The 1946 family favourite has been named the all-time best Christmas film - and now you can watch it any time you want until the end of the year

Daily Mirror

You need to watch the most underrated whodunit on HBO Max ASAP

While 'Glass Onion' brings the whodunit genre to the present, this underseen thriller delivers a timely mystery as a period piece.

Inverse

In ‘Babylon,’ Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie share billing with poop, vomit and over-the-top spectacle

Self-indulgent, stomach-churning epic from director Damien Chazelle offers little insight on 1920s Hollywood.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: The Silent Film Era Roars Again in ‘Babylon’

“Perhaps the ballyhoo meant nothing,” Kevin Brownlow wrote in his defining history of the silent film era, “The Parade’s Gone By…” It’s probably true that even avid moviegoers have increasingly drifted away from the films of what Brownlow called, with good reason, “the richest in cinema’s history.” In 1952, the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Oscars 2023: 10 women directors deserving attention

Shortly after the Golden Globes nominations were announced earlier this month, the advocacy group Women in Film took to social media, decrying the "shocking" omission of critically acclaimed female directors, citing Sarah Polley ("Women Talking"), Gina Prince-Bythewood ("The Woman King"), Chinonye Chukwu ("Till") and Maria Schrader ("She Said").

Los Angeles Times

Television Q&A: Is Ben Affleck making a 'Ghost Army' movie?

You have questions. I have some answers.

Tribune News Service

Review: Banderas has pizazz in 'Puss in Boots: The Last Wish'

Should you see "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish?" How do you feel about Antonio Banderas?

Tribune News Service

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Review: 'Babylon' douses you with sex, drugs, vomit and elephant diarrhea. You … might like it?

Damien Chazelle's "Babylon" begins in a dusty stretch of Southern California desert in the 1920s, with the delivery of an elephant that will serve as one of the more quixotic performers at an exclusive Hollywood house party. While being carted uphill to the venue where various movers and shakers will…

The Independent UK

James Cameron uses science to prove Jack had to die in Titanic

‘We actually did a scientific study to put this whole thing to rest,’ director said

The Guardian - UK

The film quiz of the year! What was Timothée Chalamet’s secret – and why did Tom Hanks disappoint his fans?

From award-winning performances to politics and controversial awards shows, how closely were you watching the movie business this year?

The Guardian - UK

The Queen of Spades review – thrillingly addictive tale of gambling and sin

Thorold Dickinson’s 1949 Pushkin adaptation is a glorious melodrama about an ambitious Russian military officer and a countess who sold her soul to the devil in exchange for the secrets of a card game

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Oscar-winning Iranian Filmmaker Backs Alidoosti

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi on Tuesday urged the release of Taraneh Alidoosti, who has starred in four of his films, after the actor's arrest for supporting the three-month protest movement. Alidoosti, 38, was arrested on Saturday, official media said, after making a string of social media posts supporting the protests…

Tribune News Service

'Babylon' review: Damien Chazelle's latest takes excess to a new level

Damien Chazelle's sprawling "Babylon" is the flip side to his 2016 hit "La La Land." Both are movies about movies, set primarily in Los Angeles and focus on characters who dream. But where "La La Land" was all lightness, a gentle valentine to love and hope and the larger-than-life way…

The Independent UK

Cate Blanchett will play any role to be in a Guillermo del Toro film – even a monkey called ‘Garbage’

Even if it means giving her voice to a squawking animated monkey in his newest film ‘Pinocchio’

Inverse

'Puss in Boots: The Last Wish' review: The radical reinvention Shrek needs has arrived

'Puss in Boots: The Last Wish' is the radical reinvention the Shrek franchise has needed.

Los Angeles Times

The best movies of 2022 — and where to find them

The movies returned at something close to full force this year. COVID masks all but vanished from multiplex crowds, and from the audiences at the press screenings I attended (though I kept mine handy). Sundance did cancel its in-person screenings for the second January in a row, thanks to the…

Chicago Tribune

‘Babylon’ review: The glory and cruelty of Hollywood in the last days of silent pictures

As a cinematic study in risk and reward, the first four features from director Damien Chazelle just plain work, often dazzlingly. He knows how and when to move a camera. You know how rare that is these days? Steven Spielberg; Paul Thomas Anderson; a few others. And Chazelle.

Manchester Evening News

When is Die Hard on over Christmas and how to watch it

Ho-Ho-Ho, John McClane is back just in time for Christmas

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