George Miller Aims to Shoot Furiosa Spin-Off Next Year with Anya Taylor-Joy Circling

Now that Mad Max: Fury Road and the larger franchise may have predicted our future to a much more real extent than we could have ever imagined, George Miller l...

New to Streaming: Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Bacurau, Vitalina Varela, The Way Back & More

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles ...

First Trailer for Alan Yang’s Directorial Debut Tigertail Tells a Multi-Generational Tale of Cultural Identity

While the distribution strategies for the majority of film companies were uprooted when it comes to their work in the wake of the coronavirus, one distributor ...

The B-Side in Conversation with Brian Koppelman

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars and filmmakers and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the...

TCM is Bringing Their Classic Film Festival to Your Home

With movie theaters having to close their doors to curb the spread of coronavirus, it also meant many previously scheduled festivals had to cancel, postpone, o...

Cristi Puiu on Why Commercial Cinema is Propaganda, Respecting the Audience, and What Defines a Great Film

It's difficult to exactly quantify the impact of Cristi Puiu's second feature. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is a film about an ambulance worker's attempts to get...

SXSW Review: For Madmen Only is a Hilarious, Energetic Biography of Del Close

Hillarious and well researched, Heather Ross’ For Madmen Only is an American Splendor-esque portrait of Del Close, a genius that is likely little known outside...

Brian De Palma Says Modern Filmmaking Has Lost a Sense of Beauty

While he didn't partake in any publicity for his latest film, the clearly compromised but no less entertaining Domino, Brian De Palma has granted the now-rare ...

Alejandro González Iñárritu to Return With New Film Shot by Bradford Young

Following the back-to-back Oscar winners Birdman and The Revenant–as well as being only the third director in history to receive consecutive Best Director awar...

Resistance Review: Jesse Eisenberg is Marcel Marceau in Effective Story of World War II-Era Rebellion

Marcel Marceau's first public performance was in front of three thousand troops after Paris was liberated during World War II. It wasn't some USO stunt, though...