Category: 2025

The Year 2025

TORN Film Review

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For Clarification: The reviewer-writer of this movie that blows his mind is Pro-Palestinian and despises The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, a Palestinian nationalist Sunni Islamist political organization with a military wing for its October 7, 2023 attack and massacre of innocent Israelis. This reviewer-writer is Pro-Israel but despises Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his staunch elected supporters and right wing cabinet for the crimes against humanity and genocide perpetrated against Palestinians, who are dying and being slaughtered as this review is being written.

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Award Winners of the 2025 9th Annual Festival of Cinema NYC

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Festival of Cinema NYC Founder and Executive Director Jayson Simba: “As we near the end of our first decade of bringing films to Forest Hills/Queens, we have established a well-earned reputation for celebrating truly independent films and filmmakers from Europe, the West Coast, and New York City as well.” The Festival of Cinema NYC is an independent film festival designed to support and expose emerging filmmakers by screening a diverse range of films, including features, shorts, animation, and music videos.

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New York Latino Film Festival September 13-21: The nation’s leading Latino film festival marks its milestone year with record submissions, a dynamic film lineup, engaging conversations, and a free outdoor event

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This year, NYLFF will once again present an exciting line-up of feature films in various forms, including feature, documentary, and shorts from the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Highlights include Aguadilla (2025, 107 min., Puerto Rico/USA), a tale of desire, deception, and survival, as a wheelchair-bound ex-surfer (Lou Diamond Phillips) becomes entangled in a dangerous triangle with a Dominican migrant couple on the shores of Puerto Rico.

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JU DOU – Director Yimou’s Meticulously Restored Oscar-Nominee Arrives in Theaters October 3, 2050 from Film Movement Classics
Said to Be One of the Greatest Chinese Films Every Made
August 28 Update: JU DOU Part 2 in the Works

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The film that put director Zhang Yimou and star Gong Li on the international cinema map follows beautiful young Ju Dou as she is married off to an egregiously cruel, and also impotent, owner of a dye mill in the…

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Oscar Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival 2025
Reviewing Director Oanh-Nhi Nguyen’s Two Film Shorts Screenings at HollyShorts
Part 1, LITTLE BIRD

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This reviewer expects many audiences like this reviewer will be stirred to see LITTLE BIRD more than once. The more a film inspires repeat viewings and positive critical discussions, the more likely that film’s reputation and that of the filmmaker grow. Film resonance: Can’t help but believe that film audiences will see and feel connections between the sociopolitical issues depicted in the movie are so very familiar to sociopolitical political issues reflecting in the never ending tumult of “breaking news” today. – By Gregg W. Morris, editor, reviewer, the WORD

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