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5 Films to See at the 2025 Maryland Film Festival | Film Festival Today
Though traditionally held in the spring, the 2025 Maryland Film Festival (MdFF) takes place in the fall, running November 5-9 (in 2026, it returns to the spring, with dates in April). Its home is Balt...
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@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social offers up 5 choices to see at this year's Maryland Film Festival #MdFF @mdffparkway.bsky.social filmfestivaltoday.com/fft-festival...
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social offers up 5 choices to see at this year's Maryland Film Festival #MdFF @mdffparkway.bsky.social filmfestivaltoday.com/fft-festival...
5 Films to See at the 2025 Maryland Film Festival | Film Festival Today
Though traditionally held in the spring, the 2025 Maryland Film Festival (MdFF) takes place in the fall, running November 5-9 (in 2026, it returns to the spring, with dates in April). Its home is Balt...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social offers up 5 choices to see at this year's Maryland Film Festival #MdFF @mdffparkway.bsky.social filmfestivaltoday.com/fft-festival...
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social interviews Shih-Ching Tsou about her movie LEFT-HANDED GIRL at the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival filmfestivaltoday.com/interviews/m... #filmsky
Middleburg Interview with “Left-Handed Girl” Director Shih-Ching Tsou | Film Festival Today
Filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou is a longtime collaborator of Sean Baker’s. In her first helming effort, the 2004 Take Out, she shared directorial duties with Baker. Since then, Tsou has produced many of hi...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social interviews Shih-Ching Tsou about her movie LEFT-HANDED GIRL at the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival filmfestivaltoday.com/interviews/m... #filmsky
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social interview actress Nina Hoss at the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival about her role in the new HEDDA filmfestivaltoday.com/interviews/m... #filmsky
Middleburg Interview with “Hedda” Star Nina Hoss | Film Festival Today
In the new film Hedda, from director Nia DaCosta (Candyman), German actress Nina Hoss (TÁR) plays Eileen Lovborg, former lover of the main character and now professional rival to that person’s new hus...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social interview actress Nina Hoss at the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival about her role in the new HEDDA filmfestivaltoday.com/interviews/m... #filmsky
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social moderated the Q&A for Ryan White's new documentary, COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT, at the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival. Here, now, is that Q&A, transcribed.
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Middleburg Interview with “Come See Me in the Good Light” Director Ryan White | Film Festival Today
Documentarian Ryan White is nothing if not prolific, tackling a great variety of issues as he goes. In his latest movie, Come See Me in the Good Light, he profiles the late spoken-word poet Andrea Gib...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social moderated the Q&A for Ryan White's new documentary, COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT, at the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival. Here, now, is that Q&A, transcribed.
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@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social interviews Elizabeth Lo about her new documentary MISTRESS DISPELLER, which comes out today, 10/24, in Los Angeles (came out Wednesday, 10/22, in New York) via Oscilloscope filmfestivaltoday.com/interviews/i... #filmsky
Interview with “Mistress Dispeller” Director Elizabeth Lo | Film Festival Today
The documentary Mistress Dispeller premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival (I reviewed it out of Toronto) and is now finally, in 2025, coming out in theaters via Oscilloscope (released October 22 i...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social interviews Elizabeth Lo about her new documentary MISTRESS DISPELLER, which comes out today, 10/24, in Los Angeles (came out Wednesday, 10/22, in New York) via Oscilloscope filmfestivaltoday.com/interviews/i... #filmsky
George W. Campbell reviews REGRETTING YOU filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
“Regretting You” Is Too Goofy for Its Own Good | Film Festival Today
Regretting You (Josh Boone, 2025) 2 out of 5 stars After the controversial It Ends with Us, author Colleen Hoover returns to the big screen with another adaptation of her work, Regretting You. Thankfu...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
George W. Campbell reviews REGRETTING YOU filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
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October 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
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Opinion | I never personally had a Nazi-curious phase. But as a fair minded journalist, it’s my job to pretend this is a normal rite of passage for American men who might later go into politics.
October 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Opinion | I never personally had a Nazi-curious phase. But as a fair minded journalist, it’s my job to pretend this is a normal rite of passage for American men who might later go into politics.
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social reviews HAMNET out of the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
Middleburg Review: “Hamnet” | Film Festival Today
Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, 2025) 2½ out of 5 stars Hamnet is the kind of movie where one feels terrible when not moved as much as the onscreen characters. They wail and proclaim their grief, making quite the...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social reviews HAMNET out of the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social reviews director Ryan White's latest, COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT, out of the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
Middleburg Review: “Come See Me in the Good Light” | Film Festival Today
Come See Me in the Good Light (Ryan White, 2025) 4 out of 5 stars Spoken-word poet Andrea Gibson died on July 14 of this year, at the age of 49, of ovarian cancer, leaving behind their partner—fellow ...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social reviews director Ryan White's latest, COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT, out of the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social reviews Shih-Ching Tsou's LEFT-HANDED GIRL out of 2025 Middleburg Film Festival filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
Middleburg Review: “Left-Handed Girl” | Film Festival Today
Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou, 2025) 4½ out of 5 stars First-time solo director Shih-Ching Tsou has been working with filmmaker Sean Baker since the early aughts, beginning with a movie they co-di...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social reviews Shih-Ching Tsou's LEFT-HANDED GIRL out of 2025 Middleburg Film Festival filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social reviews Max Walker-Silverman's new feature, REBUILDING, out of the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival, which begins today, October 16 filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
Middleburg Review: “Rebuilding” | Film Festival Today
Rebuilding (Max Walker-Silverman, 2025) 4½ out of 5 stars In his 2022 feature debut, A Love Song, writer/director Max Walker-Silverman demonstrated a gentle, but assured, confidence behind the camera ...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social reviews Max Walker-Silverman's new feature, REBUILDING, out of the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival, which begins today, October 16 filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social offers up his thoughts on what to see at the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #Middleburg2025 #filmsky
5 Films to See at Middleburg 2025 | Film Festival Today
The 13th iteration of the annual Middleburg Film Festival—which takes place in Middleburg, Virginia—runs from Thursday, October 16, to Sunday, October 19, with 47 feature films, a documentary series, ...
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October 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social offers up his thoughts on what to see at the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #Middleburg2025 #filmsky
@billyraybrewton.bsky.social reviews BIG BABY out of @screamfest.bsky.social filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
Screamfest Review: “Big Baby” | Film Festival Today
Big Baby (Spider One, 2025) 3 out of 5 stars As a writer myself, I am always interested in and drawn to films about the process, as it were: the use of imagination to create ideas and the ability to t...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
@billyraybrewton.bsky.social reviews BIG BABY out of @screamfest.bsky.social filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
Patrick Howard reviews SOLVENT filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
“Solvent” Has Splatter and Guts | Film Festival Today
Solvent (Johannes Grenzfurthner, 2024) 4 out of 5 stars While searching for Nazi documents in an Austrian farmhouse, a team of experts uncovers a hidden secret buried in its bowels. American expatriat...
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October 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Patrick Howard reviews SOLVENT filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social reviews KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
“Kiss of the Spider Woman” Has Had Its Day | Film Festival Today
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Bill Condon, 2025) 1½ out of 5 stars Published in 1976, the novel Kiss of the Spider Woman, by Argentine writer Manuel Puig, was first adapted (by the author) to another medi...
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October 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social reviews KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social reviews @albertbirney.bsky.social's latest, OBEX, out of the @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social #filmsky filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews...
New/Next Review: “OBEX” | Film Festival Today
OBEX (Albert Birney, 2025) 4 out of 5 stars The films of director Albert Birney—be they of the live action variety (Strawberry Mansion) or animated (Tux and Fanny)—are always loving tributes to the me...
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October 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social reviews @albertbirney.bsky.social's latest, OBEX, out of the @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social #filmsky filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews...
Adam Vaughn reviews Ben Leonberg's GOOD BOY filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
Heartfelt Spirit Elevates “Good Boy” | Film Festival Today
Good Boy (Ben Leonberg, 2025) 3 out of 5 stars October launches with a unique horror film centered around one of the most original and adorable lead characters of the genre: a dog! Good Boy (not to be...
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October 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Adam Vaughn reviews Ben Leonberg's GOOD BOY filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social presents his 5 picks for this year's @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social filmfestivaltoday.com/fft-festival... #NewNext #filmsky
5 Films to See at New/Next 2025 | Film Festival Today
The New/Next Film Fest is back for its third iteration, running October 2-5, with more than 30 features and over 40 shorts. Present by Baltimore Public Media, the fest debuted in August 2023 and has a...
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October 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
@chrisreedfilm.bsky.social presents his 5 picks for this year's @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social filmfestivaltoday.com/fft-festival... #NewNext #filmsky
George W. Campbell reviews the new Marc Maron documentary, ARE WE GOOD? filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
Marc Maron Moves Forward in “Are We Good?” | Film Festival Today
Are We Good? (Steven Feinartz, 2025) 3½ out of 5 stars In the world of modern comedy, few folks have carved out a niche like Marc Maron. Over the last three decades, he’s built a reputation for being ...
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October 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
George W. Campbell reviews the new Marc Maron documentary, ARE WE GOOD? filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
Adam Vaughn reviews TIME TRAVEL IS DANGEROUS filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
“Time Travel Is Dangerous” and Also Nonsense | Film Festival Today
Time Travel Is Dangerous (Chris Reading, 2024) 2½ out of 5 stars United Kingdom-based director Chris Reading takes us on a wild ride of a comedy about time travel that is both simplistic and, inevitab...
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October 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Adam Vaughn reviews TIME TRAVEL IS DANGEROUS filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
Matt Patti reviews THE MAN IN THE WHITE VAN filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky
“The Man in the White Van” Misses Exit | Film Festival Today
The Man in the White Van (Warren Skeels, 2023) 2 out of 5 stars What is it with white vans? Not the shoe of social-media fame, but the actual vehicles? Why is it that they are often associated with be...
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September 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Matt Patti reviews THE MAN IN THE WHITE VAN filmfestivaltoday.com/film-reviews... #filmsky