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Citizen Osama: Palestine Selects Gaza Documentary as Official 2027 Oscar Entry

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By Shikhar Verma Verified
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Palestine is taking a deeply personal story from Gaza to the world stage. Palestinian filmmaker Ahmed Hassouna’s documentary Citizen Osama has been selected as Palestine’s official entry for the 99th Academy Awards, where it will compete in the Best International Feature Film category. The announcement comes shortly after the film’s participation in the Venice Film Festival, where Citizen Osama was featured in the Venice Open section.
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Dead Janitors Club (2026) Movie Review: An uneven dark comedy that almost cruises by on its absurdly raunchy humor

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By Shikhar Verma Verified
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If I weren’t aware of Christine Jeffs’s 2008 film “Sunshine Cleaning,” the largely unregulated and uncertified crime-scene cleanup profession would be fascinating and amusing to me. I mean, who, in their right mind, would take up the job of clearing off scrapes of dead bodies if it wasn’t the only thing they could do? Jeff Klima (Felix Merback), who plays the protagonist in Devon Downs and Kenny Gage’s “Dead Janitors Club,” chooses it over retail work at a porn shop.
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Blood Shine (2026) Movie Review: Thematically rich and well-acted folk-horror loses its way

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By Shikhar Verma Verified
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New York-based filmmaking couple Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks’ sophomore feature “Blood Shine” is instantly intriguing. A tilted opening shot of a redhead that we later learn to be named Clara (played by director Emily Bennett herself), dragging a man towards a luminous gaze, will make you sit upright and take notice.
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