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WXV without one table: England v Canada in the new circuit
The rematch of the 2025 final helps explain the touring series, the Challenger and the different routes to the 2029 World Cup.
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Busan 2026: A Guide to Its Juries, Films and Awards
See who competes in the main Competition, who chooses the winners, and how the Busan Award differs from Mecenat, Sonje, NETPAC and FIPRESCI.
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“Possible Love” and three distinctions: Lee Chang-dong’s path through Venice
The South Korean drama about two couples, work and hidden desires received one official award and two collateral distinctions at the festival’s 83rd edition.
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Emmys 2026: How to Understand the Series and Acting Categories
A spoiler-free guide to interpreting drama, comedy, limited series, television movies and the acting awards at the 78th edition.
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The Lion Opens a Second Door: How Woman Unknown Can Enter the Oscar Race
The Venice victory enables a new submission route, but the film is not yet a confirmed entrant or a nominee for the 99th Oscars.
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La Maison du Vent: From an Unfinished Cut to Two Venice Awards
Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu’s feature passed through Final Cut in Venice, connected partners in six countries, and won in two categories.
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Two Lions, Two Careers: Six Films by Ellen Burstyn and George Clooney
A comparative journey through Burstyn’s acting and Clooney’s work as actor, writer, and director, prompted by the honors announced in Venice.
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Venice Beyond the Red Carpet: Where Cinema Takes Shape
The 2026 edition showed how the festival connects films in post-production, restorations and immersive experiences with new audiences and partners.
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The Seven O'Clock Telenovela Turns Temporary Custody Into Urban Drama
Peixe and his siblings' escape shifts Por Você away from the romantic axis toward a social question: who cares when a family loses home, mother and trust?
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Peixe and adolescence without shelter: Brazil's early-evening telenovela faces the street
In Por Você, the character's escape with his siblings moves family melodrama toward a social question: who provides care when home no longer exists?
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Por Você Takes Childhood Outside the Home and Changes the Rhythm of the Seven O’Clock Telenovela
Peixe and his siblings’ escape moves the family melodrama into the street and shows how the series is trying to engage with grief, custody, youth and short-form screens.
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Rocky Horror Without Tim Curry: The Cult Now Faces Memory
The actor’s death puts Dr. Frank-N-Furter back at the center of a larger discussion: how a marginal film became a collective ritual, queer language, and pop heritage.
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Cássio Gabus Mendes and the cultural weight of a farewell in the six o'clock telenovela
Casemiro Bonafé's exit from A Nobreza do Amor renews the force of the telenovela as a language of memory, power and public conversation in Brazil.
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Avengers: Endgame Encore and the New Fight for the Cinema Ritual
The blockbuster's return to Brazilian theaters, with new material and premium formats, shows how Hollywood is trying to turn recent memory into a collective event.
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SBT at 45: Popular TV Between Memory, Crisis and Reinvention
The network created by Silvio Santos enters a decisive phase: preserving its emotional repertoire without treating nostalgia as a sufficient cultural project.
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Prime Video in Brazil: streaming becomes a fight for cultural territory
With a billion-dollar investment in Latin America, new Brazilian productions and pressure around regulation, Amazon shows that the streaming war now runs through identity, scale and distribution power.
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Dave Bautista as Kratos: when video games demand body, grief, and series prestige
The lead recast in the God of War adaptation reopens a larger debate: how Hollywood translates games without reducing their characters to muscles and trademark imagery.
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Selton Mello in Gramado: the consecration of an actor who became part of Brazilian cinema memory
The Crystal Kikito received at the 54th Gramado Film Festival repositions Selton Mello as a bridge between television, auteur cinema, popular industry and international circulation.
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Laura Cardoso and the Living Memory of Brazilian Acting
The actress’s death at 98 brings back into focus a career that crossed radio, theater, cinema and television without losing artistic rigor.
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Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey: why the IMAX epic became a defining cinema event of 2026
Matt Damon plays Odysseus in a monumental Homer adaptation, filmed entirely in IMAX and designed to stay in the conversation long after the screening.
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