Tag: Searchlight Pictures
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Top Films 2025
Ready for our top films 2025? In a year of films with runtimes that pushed the limits of our bladders and patience here are the ones we found worth sitting through. Here are some of the standouts of 2025. Here is the list in alphabetical order. Top Films 2025 Bugonia Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone’s…
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Marty Supreme, No Other Choice, Song Sung Blue, The Testament of Ann Lee – 625
A holiday release day jam packed with awards bait, but only some are actually worthy of the nice list. We take on Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, Park Chan Wook‘s No Other Choice. Plus two musical(ish) films with Song Sung Blue and The Testament of Ann Lee Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Marty Supreme Marty Mauser,…
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HIKARI for Rental Family
Director / Writer HIKARI catches up with us about emotionally challenging scenes in her film, adapting her directing style for the actors, and the parallels between directing on Netflix’s BEEF and Rental Family. More about Rental Family Set in modern-day Tokyo, the filmfollows an American actor (Brendan Fraser) who struggles to find purpose until he…
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Wicked: For Good, Rental Family, Train Dreams, In Your Dreams – 615
Should you spend a clock tick of your time (and money) on Wicked: For Good? Rental Family continues the Brenaissance in the best possible way. Train Dreams is a meditative tone poem of a film. Let Baloney Tony shepherd you through In Your Dreams. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Wicked: For Good Directed once…
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TIFF 2025
It was our pleasure to attend TIFF 2025 for the 50th iteration of the festival. We saw 20 films at the Toronto International Film Festival (and again a special thanks to the TIFF and Rotten Tomatoes Grant Program for helping us participate). We weren’t able to screen everything there, but here’s a glimpse at what…
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The Roses, The Thursday Murder Club – 594
A pair of adaptations is up for review this week, both with all star casts: The Roses and The Thursday Murder Club. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about The Roses Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed…
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Geremy Jasper for O’Dessa – 550
Director, Writer Geremy Jasper is here to chat about learnings from his first feature, casting impact on characters, and materialism in a dystopian future. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about O’Dessa Set in a post-apocalyptic future, O’Dessa is an original rock opera about a farm girl on an epic quest to recover a cherished family…
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Nosferatu, Babygirl, A Complete Unknown – 523
Robert Eggers sinks his fangs into Nosferatu. Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson smolder in Babygirl. We’re feeling about as settled as a rolling stone after seeing the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Nosferatu A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated…
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A Quiet Place: Day One, A Family Affair, Kinds of Kindness – 456
A Quiet Place: Day One is a return to form for the franchise. Is A Family Affair cringe or camp? Kinds of Kindness is more thank kind of not for us. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about A Quiet Place: Day One: Experience the day the world went quiet. Starring: Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff and Djimon…
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The Iron Claw, American Fiction, Maestro, All of Us Strangers – 396
The deluge of end of year awards contenders continues with the based on a true story wrestling tale of The Iron Claw, the biting commentary of American Fiction, the bloated “genius” of Maestro, and the exploration of the Queer identity in All of Us Strangers. Listen on Apple Podcasts