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Bacurau

By Alan Ng | March 2020

What Hollywood does so badly is take a decent idea for a movie and screw it up by adding an A, B,…

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What Hollywood does so badly is take a decent idea for a movie and screw it up by adding an A, B, but most likely C-list star to it. Now, rather than focus...

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Brazilian filmmaking legend Hector Babenco passed away in 2016. The man directed a dozen features over the span of 40+ years, including the cult...

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A gay bathhouse in Rio De Janeiro is the stage for the gentle human drama of Copa 181. That’s the address men go to for anonymous sex, a stage show, a...

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The struggles of indigenous peoples are not new ones, but rarely specific to just one region. It starts with a group of people who have arrived first in...

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The Brazilian drama Hard Paint is set in Porto Alegre and tells the story of a taciturn young man with no mother, father, or friends, who lives apart from...

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In filmmaker Ana Katz’s Florianópolis Dream, she tells the story of an Argentinian family’s vacation in Florianópolis, Brazil. The film opens with...

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Director Bruno Murtinho brings full Brazilian musical immersion in his documentary Amazônia Groove. In which we follow the river into remote parts of the...

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The Brazilian animated feature Tito and the Birds is Gustavo Steinberg's masterwork. Created with stunning oil paintings, set your expectations aside as...

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If the title of the film, O Clube dos Canibais (its original Brazilian title) or The Cannibal Club is any indication, this film is about cannibals. In fact...

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