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.

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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Saturday Night | TIFF 2024

The movie certainly gets one thing right: Many on the original Saturday Night Live were stoned and/or coked-out of their minds.

By |September 13th, 2024|Festivals, TV series|2 Comments
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Anora | TIFF 2024

If directing is 90% casting, then that is the main reason why Anora remains engaging through its ups and downs. 

By |September 12th, 2024|Comedy, Festivals|0 Comments
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The Mother and the Bear | TIFF 2024

A sweet, amicable, and droll comedy that honors nosy, overprotective, and concerned mothers everywhere.

By |September 12th, 2024|Family drama, Festivals|0 Comments
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