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The back-to-back International Film Festivals in Venice and Toronto mark the start of what is referred to as "awards season" in Hollywood. From superhero movies attempting to play themselves as more than they are to obscure foreign language debuts, these two events are where everyone rolls out what
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Whether you’re down to rollick around history with Apple TV+’s new reimagining of Time Bandits or you think the reboot of the classic 1981 fantasy movie got lost in all those timelines, there’s a clear hunger for Britain’s brand of fantasy, once confined mainly to feature
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If the Cannes Film Festival is the place where films test the waters to see if they have the juice to play for awards season, the dual arrivals of the Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival are the hard launch for those who think they can
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Nowhere Special has clearly fallen through the cracks of international distribution. It premiered three and a half years ago, in September 2020, at the same reduced-programming Venice Film Festival as Nomadland, which would go on to win Best Picture two years before Nowhere Special reached (in a limited release) American
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Most of Hollywood doesn't really tune into Awards season until the end of the summer when the back-to-back film festivals start rolling out the big contenders in Venice and Toronto, followed by London and then American theatrical releases. But for the rest of the world, the chase for
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Everyone knows the story of King Richard III. Or, at least, they think they do. Thanks to William Shakespeare and his dark history play about the doomed monarch, everyone remembers Richard as a monster, a villain with a deformed body to match his dark heart. A usurper who murdered his
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Modern pop culture tends to make only one kind of King Arthur movie. It's usually focused on the king himself and it almost always covers one of two aspects of his story: As a young man embracing his destiny and discovering Excalibur, or as a slightly older version