Chicago Critics Film Festival 2025 Preview | Festivals & Awards
If you were at the 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival, you could have seen the first Windy City screenings of “Sing Sing,” “Thelma,” “In a Violent Nature,” “Babes,” “Ghostlight,” “Good One,” “I Saw the TV Glow,” and so many more. This festival, which I co-produce, has one of the strongest
Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Flash preview on April 17
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, its hybrid reasoning model, is now available in preview for the standalone Gemini app. On Thursday, the company rolled out an “early version” of the model with updated reasoning capabilities. It can also better determine how much processing power or “thinking” to apply to each request.
SXSW 2025 Documentary Preview: The Biggest Doc Premieres from Austin
Remaining Native Remaining Native Thanks to recent works such as Reservation Dogs and Sugarcane, pop culture is finally gaining awareness of Indian boarding schools, a particularly shameful chapter in American history. Emmy-nominated Haudenosaunee director Paige Bethmann, who recently made the list of DOC NYC’s 40 under 40 documentary filmmakers to
SXSW 2025 TV Preview: The Studio, Happy Face, #1 Happy Family USA, and More
Created by acclaimed music video director Paul Hunter and screenwriter-producer Ayesha Carr, Government Cheese is a surrealist dramedy based on Hunter’s short film of the same name, which will stream on Apple TV+ in April. The 10-episode series stars Silo and Lawmen: Bass Reeves’ David Oyelowo as Hampton Chambers, with
