AFI FEST 2025: The Big Moments, the Breakouts, and the Industry Buzz The 39th edition of AFI FEST, held October 22–26 in Hollywood, delivered one of its most star-packed and internationally diverse programs in recent...
Category - Film Review
Pauline Adamek
The promise of eternal youth – “Shell” reviewed
Max Minghella’s body horror The Shell emerges from the same vein as Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance. They each explore the specter of aging, of impossible beauty standards, and the fragility of female identity...
Film Review: Danny Boyle’s Superb ’28 Years Later’
Boyle's reckoning for a zombie trilogy with this compelling set-up.
Kurt Gardner
Now at the Getty “Hercules and Omphale” by Artemisia Gentileschi – a masterpiece reclaimed
The Getty has announced the completion of a complex, three-year conservation treatment of a rescued Artemisia Gentileschi painting. Five years after surviving a massive explosion in Beirut, the large-scale masterpiece...
Film Review: Frankie Muniz in ‘Renner’
Like 'Psycho' rewritten for the AI generation, 'Renner' is the story of a repressed genius whose latest computerized creation, Salenus, functions as both his life coach and dominating mother figure.