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Feb82025 by cineverseNo Comments

Ali Atshani’s My Little Moon Competes at the 24th Santa Fe International Film Festival

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cineversedaily reporter Ali Atshani’s latest feature film, *My Little Moon*, has been officially selected for the competition section of the 24th Santa Fe International Film Festival, one of the most prominent celebrations of independent cinema in the United States. The festival will take place from February 21 to 23 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, bringing together filmmakers, industry professionals, and cinephiles from around the world. Shot in Los Angeles last year, *My Little Moon* is a powerful and thought-provoking drama that explores the events of 2022 in Iran, focusing on the tragic deaths of young protesters during the *Woman, Life, Freedom* movement. The film provides a gripping and emotional portrayal of the struggles faced by Iranian youth during that time, shedd...

Feb52025 by cineverseNo Comments

Love, Brooklyn’ Review: André Holland, Nicole Beharie and DeWanda Wise Carry a Simmering Romantic Drama

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By Murtada Elfadl According To The variety A love letter to the the people and places of the New York borough for which it’s named, “Love, Brooklyn” is also a showcase for the talents of its three attractive lead actors. In this entry at Sundance’s US dramatic competition, Andre Holland, Nicole Beharie and DeWanda Wise play upwardly mobile creative New Yorkers in a complicated love triangle. First-time filmmakers, director Rachael Abigail Holder and screenwriter Paul Zimmerman weave a low-key romantic odyssey that simmers with intimate heat while acting as a loving character study of the beloved, always evolving neighborhood. Casey (Beharie) and Roger (Holland) used to be an item but are now just friends. Or are they? They seem to still carry a torch for each other and...

Feb52025 by cineverseNo Comments

Lin-Manuel Miranda Asked Director Jon M. Chu to Cast Him as a Munchkin in ‘Wicked’: ‘It Would’ve Been Distracting’

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By Jack Dunn According To The variety After Lin-Manuel Miranda collaborated with director Jon M. Chu on the 2021 movie musical “In The Heights,” the pair almost worked together on 2024’s biggest Broadway adaptation: “Wicked.” During a recent appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Miranda explained that he had his eye on the role of a munchkin who delivers a critical line in the opening scene of “Wicked.” “In the opening number of the show, this one munchkin runs out and goes, ‘Is it true you were her friend?’ Because, man, I don’t know if you’ve seen a live production of ‘Wicked,’ but sometimes they really put some sauce on the ball when they deliver that line,” Miranda said. He continued, “It’s where the story starts. So I was like, ‘I really w...

Feb42025 by cineverseNo Comments

Squid Game 3’ Leads Netflix Korea 2025 Slate

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By Naman Ramachandran According To The variety Netflix has unveiled an ambitious 2025 Korean content lineup anchored by “Squid Game 3,” which expands its universe with a roster including Yim Si-wan, Kang Ha-neul and Park Gyu-young joining returning stars Lee Jung-jae and Lee Byung-hun. The series, premiering June 27, delves deeper into Gi-hun’s choices amid overwhelming despair while exploring the Front Man’s next moves. The streamer kicked off 2025 with romance “When The Stars Gossip,” starring Lee Min-ho as a space tourist who falls for Korean-American astronaut Kong Hyo Jin. Dating reality show “Single’s Inferno” returned for its milestone fourth season, followed by medical drama “The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call,” featuring Ju Ji-hoon as a genius trauma surgeon rebuilding ...

Feb32025 by cineverseNo Comments

Magic Farm’ Review: Acerbic Comedy About Culture Clash Follows Clueless Americans in Small-town Argentina

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By Carlos Aguilar According To The variety Cumbia music is the one grounding constant in Argentine-born Spanish filmmaker Amalia Ulman’s sophomore effort “Magic Farm,” a formally radical, biting satire about odious, privileged Americans adrift in a remote Argentine rural town. The group of foreigners works for a Vice-type media company dedicated to exploiting offbeat stories from around the world for sensationalist video content. The latest target for their culture-mining operation is Super Carlitos, a whimsical singer known for wearing bunny ears, residing in the town of San Cristobal. Unbeknown to useless producer Jeff (Alex Wolff of “Hereditary” fame), a place with that name could be anywhere in Latin America. With the same uncomfortably dry sense of humor she exhibited in her deb...

Jan272025 by cineverseNo Comments

Kiss of the Spider Woman’ Review: Jennifer Lopez Provides Welcome Escape From Grim World of Argentine Prisoners

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By Peter Debruge According To The variety Boundaries are constantly blurring in “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” the revolutionary mid-’80s film that became a Kander and Ebb musical, and that cunningly (and stunningly) morphs back to the big screen, courtesy of “Dreamgirls” director Bill Condon. Confined mostly to an Argentine detention facility in 1983, at the height of the country’s Dirty War, the show is the flip side of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Evita,” focusing on the brutal military regime that followed Eva Péron’s ouster. Bleak as that may sound, the musical finds rare shards of light — and an unlikely connection — in the most despairing of places. In every incarnation of Manuel Puig’s novel, cinema offers much-needed escapism from not only political injustice, but also the k...

Jan272025 by cineverseNo Comments

Mad Bills to Pay’ Review: Soon-to-Be Father in the Bronx Struggles to Stay the Course in Impressively Acted Vérité Drama

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By Carlos Aguilar According To The variety Watching a friend be berated by his mother or witnessing a couple’s heated public argument comes with the uncomfortable feeling that one is intruding in a private matter. Those outbursts of emotion, often reserved for the eyes and ears of those involved, are magnified via a potent cinematic voice in writer-director Joel Alfonso Vargas’ impressively conceived and superbly acted social realist debut “Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo).” Expanded from the short film “May It Go Beautifully for You, Rico” which premiered in 2024, “Mad Bills” opens with a title card that warns “the working man is a sucker,” a succinct adage that encompasses the verité drama’s thematic essence: the tug of war between a person’s agency over t...