Things Heard & Seen
After just pulling off a truly stellar Oscar-nominated performance as Marion Davies in David Fincher's Mank, Amanda Seyfried returns with a very emotionally wrenching performance as an agonizing wife confined [...]
32 Best Picture Nominees That Deserved to Win the Oscar
32 Best Picture Nominees That Deserved to Win the Best Picture Oscar. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a long history of overlooking the greatest films ever [...]
93rd Academy Awards (2021)
Here is the full list of 2021 Oscar nominations, along with picks and predictions. This year's Oscars are going to be quite unpredictable and it can go so many different [...]
Slalom
Nuanced and unsettling, Charlène Favier’s Slalom, the debut French film from Charlène Favier, tells the story of an inadequate relationship between an unfathomable ski coach and his highly insecure teenager [...]
Shiva Baby
Emma Seligman’s debut feature Shiva Baby, chronicles the day of a nettlesome Shiva family gathering with prudent humor, occasionally fragile drama and plenty of anxiety. At least once in our [...]
3rd Annual Defacto Film Awards
To celebrate the upcoming Oscars, we are pleased to announce the Best of 2020 nominees and winners in fourteen categories. We selected the top five picks in the following categories: [...]
Nina Wu
The fifth feature of Taiwanese filmmaker Midi Z, premiered at the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. The filmmaker has reached numerous accolades in Asia: The [...]
The Courier
Based on historical events, The Courier is a well acted and polished espionage thriller that fails to raise any moral ambiguities and complexities of the Cold War other than following [...]
The Father
A truly devastating and shattering drama about dementia, director and co-adapted by Florian Zeller based on his own play. The Father holds some Bergmanesque moments to chronicle the life of [...]
Coming 2 America
Now being released 33 years after the 1988 comedic gem Coming to America, this sequel Coming 2 America fails to live up to the comedic momentum and feels like a [...]