At the Doha Film Festival I got to chat with 🇮🇶 Iraq filmmaker (Cannes Camera d'Or winner) Hasan Hidi for The President's Cake - a Sony Pictures Classics release. bit.ly/4ouzDkb

At the Doha Film Festival - I spoke to Jihan K. for My Father and Qaddafi (Out of Competition docu title at this year's Venice Film Festival) bit.ly/3KeYBWD

Feted at Sundance, selected to close the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, and among the best feature debuts of 2025 (and American indie features that should grab some thunder at the Indie Spirits) I had the pleasure of asking Eva Victor a pair of questions about SORRY, BABY bit.ly/487KWcX

I had the chance to speak to Óliver Laxe for 🇪🇸 Sirāt (which just got released by NEON and is enjoying a nice film festival run) - it just landed several tech award noms for the European Film Awards. bit.ly/4otWdJz

Our Nicholas Bell reviewed 🇧🇷 Kleber Mendonça Filho’s ​l​atest in Cannes ​★★★★ "Elegant, moody, and intense THE SECRET AGENT mines through the rubble of the past, reconstructing the beauty and terror of a time long gone but still haunting the present." @neonrated released today! bit.ly/43qQnA9

I had the chance to have a quick two questions with 🇧🇷 Kleber Mendonça Filho & Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent which NEON releases today! bit.ly/48Cb4wH

During a HAMNET virtual roundtable I had the chance to ask Chloé Zhao & Jessie Buckley one question about their collab - I love Jessie's answer. bit.ly/4iluE3v

LIVE from the 🇶🇦 Doha Film Festival - thankful I got to ask a couple of questions to Kaouther Ben Hania for The Voice of Hind Rajab. bit.ly/3MjFbjM

In Doha I got to chat to 🇧🇷 producer Rodrigo Teixeira - among his alluring 2026 slate he has these items on the stove: Sotomayor's 'La Perra', Naishtat's 'Glaxo', Gray's 'Paper Tiger' bit.ly/49CeWyO

For BUGONIA - I had the chance to ask Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons about spaghetti and meatballs tête-à-tête which concludes with Teddy erupting and lunging at his captive - bit.ly/3K87ssV

Strand Releasing drops Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner CACTUS PEARS this coming Friday in NYC at the @IFCCenter bit.ly/42z14lA

Our Nicholas Bell reviewed this Shudder title at the Berlinale "Since Amer, their 2009 debut, it’s clear Cattet and Forzani have always been more interested in style over substance, their latest being no exception." bit.ly/3QqvpLM

A Sundance Film Festival selection this year... Mathias Broe's Sauna receives its release via the Breaking Glass Pictures folks tomorrow ... our Nicholas Bell review "in essence a queer narrative reconfiguring a familiar formula" bit.ly/4hbnQnN

Welcome to our new regular Saturday feature. Pack your bags, get your boarding pass ready ..... here is Everything We Know So Far... for Bertrand Mandico's Roma Elastica which is toplined by Marion Cotillard - look for this to be in Cannes 2026. bit.ly/4oIQe4E

We had the immense pleasure of speaking to Alireza Khatami for THE THINGS YOU KILL - Canada's Oscar submission for Best International Feature 🇨🇦 - it drops today! bit.ly/4p9ULg5

Receiving its one-week qualifying engagement via the NEON folks is 🇪🇸 Sirāt "Layered, almost kaleidoscopic metaphors evolve through religious and politically minded themes, and the end result feels like a Gaspar Noe adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness." ★★★★½ bit.ly/4j3aQ3X

2025 Prix Louis Delluc Awards: La petite dernière, Nouvelle Vague, Arco, Kika & Nino Nominated... bit.ly/4oYt7Dn

​I still love the old title The Doctor Says I’m Alright, But I’m Feelin’ Blue​ but whatevs @Mubi release Mascha Schilinski’s 🇩🇪 SOUND of FALLING​ tomorrow ​- "The arduous subject matter and incessant misogyny feels culled right out of the Lars Von Trier handbook​..." bit.ly/44Je5tT

Our Nicholas Bell reviewed this stunner out of Sundance (🇨🇦 Oscar submission) "Alireza Khatami formulates a powerful psychodrama unspooling through the microcosm of normalized patriarchal dysfunction in Turkey with THE THINGS YOU KILL." bit.ly/3ClOyuW

Currently filming her 3rd feature film (MR. NAWASHI), we've been fans of 🇸🇪 Isabella Eklöf with her breakout debut HOLIDAY - we got to chat with her for KALAK. bit.ly/49MBI7a

IONCINEMA.com and Indie Film Site Network partners The Film Stage, Hammer to Nail, Next Best Picture, RogerEbert.com, and Slant Magazine are extremely proud to announce that My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow is the recipient of the 2025 IFSN Advocate Award. bit.ly/49aeeIV

Our Venice FF review of JAY KELLY (limited Netflix rel​ease) "Baumbach, who has increasingly dabbled in glossy portraits of dysfunction over the past decade ​.​.. somehow feels as if he’s lacking the main ingredient necessary to pull this angsty comedy together — sincerity" bit.ly/3UTPBYC

Mark Ruffalo has been confirmed for Bertrand Bonello's Santo Subito! - which moves into production next March. We also learn that Thomas Bidegain wrote what is called a Vatican thriller. We are marking this as a return to the competition in Cannes for Bonello. bit.ly/4nYzYeI

Among the best films of 2025, I had the chance to throw a question to Paul Mescal for Hamnet - I thought he was great at working with Frankie in Aftersun and he is just as solid with his child actor counterparts here. Here is my Q bit.ly/4ouLJKB

For today's Everything We Know So Far … we move to Germany (which doubles for a Turkey) for Ilker Çatak's YELLOW LETTERS - we think this will compete for the Golden Bear this February. bit.ly/3Jpwcgd

Malou Khebizi (her debut was in the Cannes comp title Wild Diamonds) & Soundos Mosbah are toplining Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz's debut LE TRIANGLE D'OR bit.ly/49dMkMh

A breakout directorial debut in autumn 2024, Laura Carreira's On Falling recently nabbed a quartet of British Independent Film Awards noms.... if you're into Ken Loach cinema - you'll wanna see this - actress Joana Santos is aces! bit.ly/3JIyC9y

​A breakout directorial debut in autumn 2024, Laura Carreira​'s On Falling recently nabbed a quartet of British Independent Film Awards noms.... if you're into Ken Loach cinema - you'll wanna see this - actress Joana Santos is aces! bit.ly/3JIyC9y

A former US Green Beret is recruited to remove Venezuela's president and after the mission fails, he is pursued by the government he faithfully served. I interview Jen Gatien for MEN at WAR - a Neon release bit.ly/4otLsHS

This might be the international Oscar film frontrunner / our Cannes review > "Joachim Trier delivers his own sterling parallels to Ingmar Bergman in his sixth feature, Sentimental Value, which contends with the circuitous reconciliation between a father and daughter through art." bit.ly/3SP57nq

Selected for the Locarno Film Festival - I had the chance to speak to 🇨🇦 Alexandre Dostie for his short film Boa - a wild conversation with an unhinged/passionate filmmaker! bit.ly/4hHiYrz

28 new projects including new films by 🇵🇸 Scandar Copti, 🇱🇧 Mounia Akl & 🇯🇴 Amjad Al Rasheed are part of the Atlas Workshops at this year's Marrakech Film Festival. bit.ly/3WF2xm8

At TIFF last September I had the chance to speak to Ulises Porra who world premiered 🇩🇴🇪🇸 Under the Same Sun (Bajo el mismo sol) bit.ly/4nEo9dl

Sebastian Stan​ let it slip that he is learning Spanish for 🇨🇱​ Felipe Gálvez's​ spy thriller book-to-film project IMPUNITY (production is set for 2026, Cannes would be in the cards for 2027). bit.ly/49z9XyI

DIE MY LOVE is out thie Friday via the @mubi folks "In essence, it’s a troubling, captivating character study of a woman come undone, which bears thematic similarities to her 2002 feature Morvern Cellar starring Samantha Morton." bit.ly/3ZoSbZ7

Welcome to our new regular Saturday feature. Pack your bags, get your boarding pass ready ..... here is Everything We Know So Far... for​ ​🇦🇹 Marie Kreutzer's ​GENTLE MONSTER ​-​ Léa Seydoux​ toplines! bit.ly/48YH9j0

Receiving it's one-week qualifying run via the @A24 folks, PILLION is a Cannes gem: "Rather, it’s a blazing reminder of the inherent power in going one’s own way, even when that way isn’t understandable or decipherable to anyone else." bit.ly/4kwxSle

At the Toronto International Film Festival I had the pleasure to interview filmmaker tandem 🇭🇺 György Pálfi and Zsófia Ruttkay for HEN bit.ly/4hCpGz1

You'll be wanting to look out for Linklater's other 2025 in BLUE MOON, but this Netflix item is mildly amusing "At most, Nouvelle Vague is mildly amusing, taking an almost Bowfinger (1999) like approach to guerrilla filmmaking." bit.ly/3H2DLYv

If Jarmusch were to remake The Seventh Seal it might come across like 🇦🇷 Alejo Moguillansky's Pin de Fartie - I got to speak to the filmmaker at the Venice Film Festival. bit.ly/433XfEe

And here is one more question with Yorgos Lanthimos for Bugonia - opens wide this Friday. bit.ly/4nrkUpq

The 2025 Gotham Awards will see One Battle After Another' takes on true indies - this is a celebration of cinema not a serious awards ceremony. bit.ly/3WoIHvg

Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness and now .. BUGONIA - this is their 3rd consecutive collab together - I got to speak to Yorgos Lanthimos & composer Jerskin Fendrix (who employed a 90-piece London Contemporary Orchestra) 🐝 Out via Focus Features this weekend. bit.ly/4nrXal8

Ashes to Ashes ...Toronto to Oslo - we got the exclusive trailer first look for Sofia Bohdanowicz's Measures for a Funeral bit.ly/4oHt2Dj

I think this is a pass ... Kevin reviewed this out of TIFF - "If you’ve been looking for a jazzy, ‘50s version of Saltburn, get ready to pull out your cocktail shaker. For better, and definitely for worse, writer/director Nia DaCosta’s HEDDA" bit.ly/3I4M6Mc

SODEC have given some coin to new projects by Philippe Lesage (Who by Fire), Charlotte Le Bon (Falcon Lake) and Annie St-Pierre (I loved loved her 2021 Sundance short). These production will take place in 2026 - which means they drop in 2027. bit.ly/3L5G5Qo

From Aftersun to Afterpunk ....Charlotte Wells To Tackle Blondie Biopic As Her Sophomore Feature?!?! bit.ly/4oen9xq

BUGONIA "it’s another expertly crafted bit of bizarre theatrics from an auteur who remains fascinated with exploring characters struggling to comprehend situations from obscured vantage points, puzzling skewed realities together often too late to avoid disaster." bit.ly/4mHZYek

Here is Everything We Know So Far... for 🇩🇪 Valeska Grisebach’s The Dreamed Adventure aka 'Das Geträumte Abenteuer.' Is the a Palme d’Or contender for 2026? Produced by Germany’s Komplizen Films and France’s Kazak Productions - bit.ly/4nXmCQt

Our Cannes review "Abstract paintings are not the only undefined objects in The Mastermind, the latest from Kelly Reichardt, who has become a master herself at creating quiet, emotionally resonant characterizations of lonely, isolated individuals struggling to overcome something." bit.ly/4duz4Tm