HamptonsFilm announced today the annual SummerDocs series will return for its 16th annual edition. This summer’s presentations will feature a selection of the year’s most anticipated documentary features from leading industry storytellers. The series will kick off with a screening of Netflix’s SKYWALKERS: A LOVE STORY, directed by Jeff Zimbalist and co-directed by Maria Bukhonina, on Friday, July 5th, at...

The only hope of saving Hollywood is if people want to come to see big movies on the big screen, movies like Horizon - a western saga in two parts. Clearly, it isn't a film critic's movie. Many of them delighted in trashing it in a way that almost makes it seem like Green Book Part Two or a second...

Schools are fertile ground for drama because they’re like a microcosm where vastly different personalities big and small clash on a daily basis. Premiering in the Un Certain Regard sidebar, Norwegian director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s feature debut Armand aptly uses the school setting to consider if sometimes it’s the grown-up’s that are the problem rather than the kids they should...

We have all had that moment where we need to hype ourselves up before we ask someone out. Putting yourself out there can be a vulnerable experience, but then...what happens when nature intervenes and makes it even harder and more humiliating? In Blake Rice's Tea, Michael Gandolfini plays a lonely and allergic electronic store employee whose nervousness is compounded even...

One of the perks of covering film festivals is you get to watch films without knowing anything about them. In the age of months- if not year-long film marketing, the element of surprise has become something of a rarity. I’m bringing this up because I will probably always remember the experience of watching French writer/director Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance today....

I was both dreading and anticipating this day. I have been excited that Kevin Costner's western saga Horizon Part One would play at Cannes but dreading the reviews, tweets, and "hot takes." Most of the people who go to Cannes vary in age and experience. Some are there for the CINEMA. Others are there to hunt for Oscar contenders (like...