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WATCH – A Short Video Recap of 2024 in Film

With the year 2024 in Film a little way behind us, it is surely the perfect time to remind ourselves of the depth of cinema...

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Oscars Voters, Our Dreams Grow Darker – ‘Nosferatu’ is Coming, As Academy Awards Nominations Voting Begins

There is something pretty covert about the momentum that Robert Eggers' Nosferatu has right now. As far as Oscars players go. But time is a...

Does The Power of the Dog’s 12 Oscar Nominations Indicate Best Picture Advantage Over CODA’s 3?

Imagine a world where we determine our Oscar predictions by which film has the most nominations. Perhaps not the defining factor, but one which sways...

How Does Kristen Stewart’s Diana Fit Into Awards Season Royalty?

Imagine the line "Where the fuck am I?" reflecting not only Diana Spencer's imminent, seclusive journey to Sandringham, but also the highly anticipated notion that...

Campaign Writings To Oscars Academic For Make Consideration Of Glorious Maria Bakalova

As I delved enthusiastically into this very piece in late February, I could already hear the echoes that Maria Bakalova can't win the Best Supporting...

Back Shelf Cinema: Marketa Lazarová (1967)

I personally could not have put our 1967 in Film series to bed many months ago without re-watching and constantly praising what amounts to the...

How Far Can We Embrace the Character and World of Mathilda in Luc Besson’s Léon: The Professional?

The cinematic year of 1994 might carry varying degrees of weight a quarter of a century later. The visceral landscape, our resonating view of film,...

Teodora Mihai Traffic Oscars Filmotomy Interview

Interview with Teodora Mihai on her Oscars International Feature Entry ‘Traffic’

I had the pleasure to land a press interview with Teodora Mihai, the talented director of Traffic, the Romanian entry into this year's International Feature...

The Ice Tower (2025) Review: A Chilly Child-like Fantasy Full of Wish, Wonder & Wanderlust

What happens when you blend fantasy with reality? You get a dream-like landscape where the two realms are so closely related that you can’t split...

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Vermiglio (Maura Delpero)

A large pot of boiling milk on a stove. Hands ladling milk into small bowls held by smaller hands one after another, and another, and...

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: The Second Mother (Anna Muylaert)

Anna Muylaert’s comedic and heartfelt drama, The Second Mother, is a tale of what happens when you subvert class expectations and believe your own self...

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Arab Women In The Arts 2025: All the Must-See Highlights

Hosted by the AFMI (Arab Film & Media Institute), the Arab Women In The Arts (AWITA) showcase ran from 22nd to 27th July 2025. This...

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