Film-Forward

About Kent Turner

Kent Turner, the editor of Film-Forward, learned the ropes of the festival circuit at the San Francisco International Film Festival and has worked in film production and acquisition in Los Angeles. He is currently the director of programming at the Monmouth Film Festival.

A Complete Unknown

Director James Mangold focuses less on biographical details and more on Bob Dylan’s music, which might single-handedly bring the folk movement back into vogue.

By |December 24th, 2024|Biopic, Musical, Top Picks|0 Comments
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Babygirl

It’s doubtful Nicole Kidman has ever been as emotionally and physically vulnerable as she is here.

By |December 23rd, 2024|Thriller, Top Picks|0 Comments
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The Best Films of 2024

This year gave us two time capsules from Iran and a body horror for the ages. Though many of these picks are on the serious side, there’s also a Richard Linklater comedy and two animated movies fit for a Saturday night.

By |December 19th, 2024|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Top Picks|0 Comments
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September 5

The tragic events of the 1972 Munich Olympic games, told from the perspective of ABC Sports' control room.

By |December 13th, 2024|Arts, Comedy, Festivals, Thriller, Top Picks|0 Comments
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Maria

How do you solve a problem like Maria—portraying soprano Maria Callas, that is?

By |December 9th, 2024|Biopic, DVD/Streaming/On Demand, New York Film Festival|0 Comments
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Wicked

A rare specimen: an unabashedly wholesome family musical with added appeal for tweens.

By |November 21st, 2024|Musical|0 Comments
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The Apprentice

The biopic traces Trump’s rise as an ambitious real estate mogul in the 1970s and ’80s under the tutelage of the bombastic lawyer Roy Cohn.

By |October 11th, 2024|Biopic|0 Comments
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Diciannove | TIFF 2024

The debut film by Giovanni Tortorici, a spry filmmaker, has moxie.

By |September 16th, 2024|Festivals, Italian|0 Comments
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Anywhere Anytime | TIFF 2024

Director Milad Tangshir’s feature debut expands upon a certain Italian neorealism classic, Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves.

By |September 16th, 2024|Drama, Festivals|0 Comments
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