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As the nostalgic references keep piling up, all the glamorous faces, sweaty outsiders, vibrant marquees, hot spots, and shindigs reverberate as though conjured up by a cinephile's melancholy spell.

'Kingdom' delivers action and adventure while not skipping out on high-quality performances.

Two Depression-era con men are forced to dig deep and reconsider who they are when their go-to scheme has unexpected, miracle-like results.

Libertarians are funny. No, not that way. They have a great funny bone as evidenced by the comedies at this year's Anthem Film Festival.

Alex Wolff ('Hereditary') makes his feature debut as writer and director of an assured film about a troubled teen.

This exemplary documentary argues that Western civilization must fight for its existence or face collapsing, possibly very soon.

Freedom can be attacked by regulation, medication and tanks. These films explored each of those methods

Three films chosen for this year’s Anthem Libertarian Film Festival were created in Iran. Film festival director Jo Ann Skousen said how glad she was to have these submissions, given the risks filmmakers took making the films.

It takes a long time to perfect a film. Last year, the producers of No Safe Spaces brought it to the Anthem Film Festival to get feedback on their work-in-progress. This year, they were back at Anthem with a “95% done version.” But, as true creatives, they were still open to suggestions for improvements. Not many improvements will likely be needed, as the film won the Anthem Grand Prize for director Justin Folk and producer Mark Joseph.

Highly personal, but universal in scope and feel, 'For Sama' takes us into the reality of Aleppo under siege and we grieve and laugh with the families living through it.