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Dec202025 by cineverseNo Comments

‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Ending Explained: Everyone Who Dies, and Will There Be an ‘Avatar 4’?

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By Jordan Moreau According To The variety SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” now playing in theaters. Director James Cameron is back with biggest and longest “Avatar” movie yet, “Fire and Ash.” Taking place shortly after the events of 2022’s “The Way of Water,” “Fire and Ash” ups the stakes even further, bring massive battles between the Na’vi and humans, and introduces the series’ scariest villain yet. Just like “The Way of Water” introduced the aquatic Metkayina clan, who became allies with Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and his family, “Fire and Ash” debuts the evil Mangkwan tribe, led by the mystical Varang (Oona Chaplin). The Mangkwan live in a dormant volcano and raid the other Na’vi groups on Pandora, which is how they first r...

Nov292025 by cineverseNo Comments

Oscar Race Wide Open for Non-U.S. Directors Like Jafar Panahi and Joachim Trier to Shine

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By Matt Minton According To The variety As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences continues to diversify its voting membership, with 55% of 2025’s invitees hailing from outside the U.S., these efforts have not only resulted in more international films like “Drive My Car” and “Emilia Pérez” earning nominations and even trophies across the board, but have also opened the gates for the director category to become more global. Among this year’s strong international contenders for the director Oscar: Joachim Trier (“Sentimental Value”), Jafar Panahi (“It Was Just an Accident”), Park Chan-wook (“No Other Choice”), Kleber Mendonça Filho (“The Secret Agent”), Kaouther Ben Hania (“The Voice of Hind Rajab”), Oliver Laxe (“Sirāt”) and Annemarie Jacir (“Palestine 36”). While some of the...

Nov292025 by cineverseNo Comments

The Kartli Kingdom’ Review: Georgian Refugees Live Decades in Limbo in an Elegiac Observational Study

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By Guy Lodge According To The variety Named for the late medieval Georgian monarchy that once stood proud on the same land, “The Kartli Kingdom” is a ruefully ironic nickname for less-than-royal lodgings: a derelict sanatorium in overgrown semi-rural grounds, overlooking the brighter lights of central Tbilisi in the distance. Once home to a state-of-the-art cardiology hospital that was shuttered in the early 1990s, its wards have since been occupied by hundreds of Georgians left homeless by the 1992 war in Abkhazia — now a devastated sovereign territory to which they cannot return. Over the last 30-odd years, what was intended to be a temporary shelter has become a long-term purgatory, and that eerily stretched stillness of time is poignantly captured in Tamar Kalandadze and&n...

Nov262025 by cineverseNo Comments

Zootopia 2’ Review: Where Disney’s Critter-Driven Cartoon Favored Mammals, Its Reptile-Inclusive Sequel Tips the Scales

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By Peter Debruge According To The variety Nine years is a lifetime for foxes and hares. But it’s also the ideal space between installments in a thoughtful animated franchise (see “Inside Out 2”). Back in 2016, Disney’s wildly popular “Zootopia” showed vulnerable species trying to get along with those that might normally attempt to eat them. Now, the toon studio’s well-crafted follow-up focuses on a different kind of predator: greedy land grabbers. To say more might spoil the mystery, and that would be a shame, as it’s one of the things that makes “Zootopia 2” such a worthy successor. Both that film and its horizon-extending sequel plug anthropomorphic characters of all shapes, sizes and speeds (the sloth is back) into classic “Chinatown”-style detective stories, populating adult-cali...

Nov252025 by cineverseNo Comments

My Father’s Shadow’ Director Akinola Davies Jr. Among 2025 BAFTA Breakthroughs

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By Alex Ritman According To The variety The British Academy has unveiled the 2025 cohort for BAFTA Breakthrough U.K., featuring 20 creatives-to-watch in the film, TV and games. Among the crop of names to make the list this year are Akinola Davies Jr., who turned heads in Cannes with his directorial debut “My Father’s Shadow.” The film went on to get a special mention from the Un Certain Regard jury, was selected to represent the U.K. at the Oscars and leads the pack of nominees going into this weekend’s British Independent Film Awards. Supported by Netflix since 2019, the year-round initiative provides hand-selected creatives from a vast range of disciplines, who are on the cusp or in the midst of a breakthrough moment, with a springboard to the nex...

Oct222025 by cineverseNo Comments

Yamada Yoji to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Tokyo Film Festival

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By Naman Ramachandran According To The variety The Tokyo International Film Festival has revealed that veteran Japanese director Yamada Yoji will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at its 38th edition, recognizing a career spanning more than 60 years and 91 films. Yamada’s latest work, “Tokyo Taxi,” starring Baisho Chieko and Kimura Takuya, based on the 2023 French film “Driving Madeleine,” will screen as this year’s TIFF Centerpiece and receive theatrical release on Nov. 21. The director will also participate in a talk session with “Kokuho” director Lee Sang-il at the TIFF Lounge As previously announced, legendary Japanese actor Yoshinaga Sayuri will also be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Since his 1961 directorial debut with “Nikai...

Oct112025 by cineverseNo Comments

Mark Hamill on ‘The Life of Chuck,’ His ‘Star Wars’ Legacy, and How AI Actors Are ‘Terrible, Ghastly, Ghoulish…and Weird’

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By Clayton Davis According To The variety Mark Hamill has spent nearly five decades in the spotlight, but the actor insists he’s still learning to disappear. “The definition of a character actor is an actor that disappears, and you see only the character,” Hamill says about his role in Mike Flanagan’s “The Life of Chuck,” which won the Toronto International Film Festival Audience Award in 2024 before being acquired by Neon. In Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novella, Hamill plays an aging accountant — an intimate and surprising departure from the larger-than-life characters that made him famous, such as Luke Skywalker from the “Star Wars” series. The film, which stars Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Karen Gillan, explores memory, mortality and the marks we leave ...

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‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Ending Explained: Everyone Who Dies, and Will There Be an ‘Avatar 4’?

Oscar Race Wide Open for Non-U.S. Directors Like Jafar Panahi and Joachim Trier to Shine

The Kartli Kingdom’ Review: Georgian Refugees Live Decades in Limbo in an Elegiac Observational Study

Zootopia 2’ Review: Where Disney’s Critter-Driven Cartoon Favored Mammals, Its Reptile-Inclusive Sequel Tips the Scales

My Father’s Shadow’ Director Akinola Davies Jr. Among 2025 BAFTA Breakthroughs

Yamada Yoji to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Tokyo Film Festival

Mark Hamill on ‘The Life of Chuck,’ His ‘Star Wars’ Legacy, and How AI Actors Are ‘Terrible, Ghastly, Ghoulish…and Weird’

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