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Which Long-Overdue Contender Will Win An Oscar This Year?
The last several years have been marked by the Oscars finally honoring a long-beloved, long-overdue figure, whether it was Paul Thomas Anderson in 2025, Sean Baker in 2024, Christopher Nolan in 2023, Jamie Lee Curtis in 2022, or Will Smith in 2021. For a long time, 2026 was presumed to be the year when Tom…
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“EVERYTHING ELSE IS NOISE”
THE STORY – A middle-aged composer allows her friend to use her apartment to film a television interview, opening up a quietly revealing space, in Nicolás Pereda’s feminist-minded domestic comedy, an expert blend of realism and subtle absurdity. THE CAST – Teresita Sánchez, Rosa Estela Juárez Vargas, Luisa Pardo, Lázaro G. Rodríguez, Francisco Barreiro, Andrew Rogers…
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DOC NYC Announces The 2026 Main Slate Lineup
DOC NYC, the festival for documentaries, is celebrating its 17th edition in person November 11th-19th at IFC Center, SVA Theatre, and Village East by Angelika, and continuing online through November 29th, and announced its Main Slate lineup today. The 2026 festival presents more than 115 feature-length documentaries (with Short List, Winner’s Circle, and Selects Encore sections…
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “California Schemin’” Director James McAvoy
“California Schemin‘” (stylized as “California $chemin’”) is a 2025 biographical musical film directed by James McAvoy in his directorial debut. The film stars Samuel Bottomley and Séamus McLean Ross as the Scottish faux-American rap pairing Silibil N’ Brains, Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, and is based on Bain’s 2010 memoir “California Schemin’: How Two Lads…
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“MATCHBOX: THE MOVIE”
THE STORY – After hostiles abduct former soldier Sean Walker to locate a nuclear warhead, the CIA suspects his involvement. Later, Walker and his allies plot to reclaim the bomb and clear their names. THE CAST – John Cena, Jessica Biel, Sam Richardson, Arturo Castro, Teyonah Parris, Danai Gurira & Golshifteh Farahani THE TEAM – Sam…
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“La Bola Negra” To Receive Gotham Vanguard Tribute At 2026 Gotham Film Awards
The Gotham Film & Media Institute announced today that Netflix’s “La Bola Negra,” the film from directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, popularly known as Los Javis, will receive The Gotham Vanguard Tribute at the 36th Annual Gotham Film Awards on Monday, November 30th, 2026, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The tribute…
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile” Filmmaker Julia Loktev
“My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile” is a 2026 American documentary film produced and directed by Julia Loktev. A sequel to the 2024 film “My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow,” it follows several independent Russian journalists as they flee the country into exile, following Vladimir Putin government’s repression of free…
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“MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE”
THE STORY – Culled from more than 80 hours of footage shot by Eleanor Coppola, this doc takes us behind the scenes of her daughter Sofia’s third film, 2006’s “Marie Antoinette,” capturing the enormous challenge of making an expensive period film while still exploring the theme of wealth amid isolation so present in Sofia’s previous works.…
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