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We have some good news for the fans of the popular German teen drama series Maxton Hall – The World Between Us, as Prime Video announced on Monday that they have renewed the series for Season 3. The second season of the teen drama series is all set to premiere on Prime Video on November 7, 2025.

Based on a trilogy of bestselling novels by author Mona Kasten, the recently announced Season 3 will probably cover the third novel titled Save Us, as the upcoming Season 2 is adapting Save You, the second novel in the trilogy.

While the early renewal is good news for the fans, it was also announced that Season 3 of Maxton Hall will be the final entry in the series. As the stars of the series, Harriet Herbig-Matten and Damian Hardung, said in an Instagram video, “One last time, back to school.

Andrea Guo is turning heads after appearing in Amazon Prime Video's German language drama Maxton Hall. 

Guo plays Lin Wang, Ruby Bell's (played by Harriet Herbig-Matten) best friend and a fellow student at the prestigious private school at the heart of the new streaming romance series.

The Chinese-German actress has become a staple of both the big and small screen in her home country over the last few years, appearing in hits like The Swarm, German Genius, and Hausen.

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Maxton Hall: The World Between Us explores class differences through a unique enemies-to-lovers storyline. The show's talented cast brings depth to character dynamics, enhancing the intense relationship between Ruby and James. Maxton Hall's cast increases the show's tension and its messages about the differences in social classes.

Amazon Prime Video's Maxton Hall: The World Between Us centers around the classic enemies to lovers trope, but the show's cast helps its story feel memorably different. Maxton Hall is one of the most recent additions to the list of new shows on Prime Video, and it is already making a splash. Maxton Hall follows Ruby Bell (Harriet Herbig-Matten), who sees something she shouldn't, and James Beaufort (Damian Hardung), who tries to stop her from talking about it. It's the perfect setup to potentially make Maxton Hall one of the best TV shows on Amazon Prime Video.

A major theme of Maxton Hall...

A full picture of the Cannes Film Festival is now coming into focus with the unveiling of the Directors’ Fortnight lineup. Following the Official Selection and the Critics’ Week lineups, this sidebar features Joanna Hogg’s highly-anticipated sequel The Souvenir Part II, as well as new films by Miguel Gomes, Jonas Carpignano, Clio Barnard, Pietro Marcello, Alice Rohrwacher, Matías Piñeiro, and more.

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A Chiara (Jonas Carpignano)

Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard)

Between Two Worlds (Emmanuel Carrère)

The Braves (Anaïs Volpé)

A Brighter Tomorrow (Yassine Qnia)

Clara Sola (Nathalie Álvarez Mesen)

The Employer and the Employee (Manuel Nieto)

Europa (Haider Rashid)

Futura

Întregalde (Radu Muntean)

The Hill where Lionesses Roar (Luàna Bajrami)

Hit the Road (Panah Panahi)

Magnetic Beats (Vincent Cardona)

Medusa (Anita Rocha da Silveira)

Murina (Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović)

Neptune Frost

A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)

Our Men (Rachel Lang)

Returning to Reims (Fragments) (Jean-Gabriel Périot...

Past attendees include Oscar-nominated Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, Berlinale Golden Bear winner Radu Jude.

France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid) has unveiled the nine independent features it will be showcasing in its parallel Cannes section this July.

International features include Belgium-based director Simon Coulibaly Gillard’s debut feature Aya. It revolves around a young girl whose life in a coastal village in the southern Ivory Coast is threatened by rising sea waters.

The selection also features Syria-born Palestinian filmmaker Abdullah Al Khateeb’s documentary Little Palestine, Diary Of A Siege about life in the Palestinian...

By Todd Garbarini

One of the most frustrating things that I find true of lackluster movies is that following the passage of time, usually several decades, a film that was initially, and often rightfully, considered a stinker is then later touted as “the original classic!” Generally, these accolades are tied-in with advertising to promote and ultimately sell product and give the uninitiated and the curious a reason to buy the film sight-unseen. Efren C. Piñon’s Blind Rage (1976) isn’t necessarily a bad film, it just isn’t a particularly good one. Despite its 82-minute running time, the film feels twice as long and that’s never a good sign.

Blind Rage is a good example of an interesting premise executed in a fashion that can best be described as pedestrian. A product of 1970’s “chopsocky” cinema, the opening credits play over the vocals of Helen Gamboa singing the title track,...