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A highlight of last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Ori Segev and Noah Dixon’s Poser was picked up by Oscilloscope Laboratories and will now be arriving this June. Led by Sylvie Mix, Bobbi Kitten, Abdul Seidu, Rachel Keefe, and Z-Wolf, the follows a young woman who hopes to get involved in the underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio. When she creates a podcast to interview the local artists she adores, she discovers her own musical ambitions and a fabricated identity, leading down a darker path. Ahead of the release (as well as a special Columbus event Poserfest), the new trailer has arrived.

Erik Nielsen said in his review, “If one wants their voice heard in the year 2021, start a podcast. So it goes for Lennon (Sylvie Mix), aposer with some delusional behaviors who lies to cultivate her personality to fit into the local art scene. A somewhat familiar story...

Poser Review — Poser (2021) Film Review from the 20th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Ori Segev and Noah Dixon, starring Sylvie Mix, Bobbi Kitten, Abdul Seidu, Drew Johnson, Rachel Keefe, and Nick Samson. Jealous dynamics can exist anywhere, regardless the size of the microcosm. Sometimes it’s within an [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: Poser: Grungy Portrayal of the Columbus Underground Scene is an Ecstatic Jam Sesh With a Few Rough Notes [Tribeca 2021]...

The college experience is ripe for all sorts of cinematic treatment. Mostly, college/university life is focused, obviously, on the student body. Quite literally, it’s even focused on the bodies of the students. Most movies of this ilk are sex comedies, often of the raunchy variety. Moreover, the have largely a male gaze. Well, Crshd (opening on Friday) is here to change all of that. This movie takes the college sex comedy and subverts it with a female point of view. The result is a very creative, very funny, and even very moving experience. Despite the specificity of the characters, the desires and issues on hand are absolutely universal. The film is, as mentioned, a comedy, this one set at a small liberal arts college. In broad strokes, the plot concerns three friends, and specifically the desire of the awkward one Izzy Alden (Isabelle Barbier), to lose her virginity,...

In today’s film news roundup, the Dakota and Elle Fanning’s World War II drama “The Nightingale” gets a 2021 release, the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival selects its closing film, the Palm Springs Short Festival cancels in-person events and college comedy “Crshd” finds a home.

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Sony Pictures has set Dec. 22, 2021, as the release date for the World War II drama “The Nightingale” starring sisters Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning.

Melanie Laurent directed the adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s bestseller, which centers on two sisters struggling to survive in the French resistance during the Nazi occupation of France. Dana Stevens wrote the screenplay adaptation, and Elizabeth Cantillon produced through The Cantillon Company.

The sisters are set to appear together on screen for the very first time in the project, but the film has not yet been shot. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, Sony had planned to release “The Nightingale” on Dec.