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Mile End Kicks takes place in the Montreal music scene of 2011, the year before I purchased my vintage jacket and decided, like the movie's protagonist, to live in Montreal.
3 Women unfolds in Southern California's hazy desert, where Millie's breezy, talkative nature entrances her naïve new roommate/coworker, Pinky. Hovering at the edge of the narrative, stoic artist Willie paints an eerie, reptilian mural in an emptied swimming pool.
The Annie Awards Qualifying Festival List is an exciting new initiative designed to recognize and celebrate film festivals around the world that champion the art of animation.
On May 2, 2025, arts and cultural organizations across the country received notifications that grants and funding promised by the National Endowment for the Arts were being rescinded. This was part of a larger initiative by the Trump Administration to dismantle not just the NEA, but also other arts advocacy programs including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
The festival typically showcases many French-language films made in Africa, this year including the World Premiere of The Soul of Africa, director Gabriel Souleyka's documentary about African Spirituality.
10 Cloverfield Lane Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John Gallagher Jr are locked in an underground bunker for the majority of this left-field sequel to Cloverfield, with thrilling results. In the film's final throes, Winstead's character exits the bunker, and finds that her captor was telling the truth about an alien invasion above - a twist that completely and ruinously dissipates the hard-earned tension that came before.