Barbara Forever is a loving tribute to the life and work of Barbara Hammer that excellently shows how she paved the way for many queer filmmakers to come.
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Redmond Bacon
Redmond is the editor-in-chief of Journey Into Cinema.
Favourite Film Festivals 2025
From Tallinn to Austria to London, here are our picks for our favourite film festivals in 2025, celebrating the places that make cinema so special.
10 Best Films 2025
From One Battle After Another to Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, Sirāt to Pillion, here’s Redmond Bacon and Jared Abbott’s picks for the best films of the year.
A Diamond on The Hudson
Craig Brewer’s Song Song Blue is a surprisingly powerful musical biopic that rests upon the remarkable easygoing charm of Kate Hudson.
Keeper Away
Osgood Perkins’ lazy “cabin in the woods” horror Keeper is a tale about almost nothing at all, with almost nothing to enjoy.
Fall From Humanity Itself
Joan Chen’s May-December romance Autumn in New York may look pretty, but make no mistake: this movie is godawful.
Black Phone 2. Hell’s Frozen Over.
Scott Derrickson’s marginally better sequel Black Phone 2, the spirit of Dante’s Inferno is chanelled to frosty — in both senses of the word — results.
Mare’s Nest Belongs in a Museum
Ben Rivers’ latest feature is a long and meandering slog through the apocalypse that might work in a museum, but is deadening on the big screen.
John Garfield: The Father of Method Acting
Films by Gena Rowlands and John Garfield at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival show us the deep emotional power of the method acting approach.
Don’t Call Me Mama’s Scandalous Scandinavians
Don’t Call Me Mama is Scandinavia’s answer to Babygirl that unfortunately gives off a truly icky Blame It On Rio vibe.