Responsible for some of the most iconic comedies of the 1990s with Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary, Peter Farrelly is now breaking into the...
There were a number of surprising developments at Cannes Film Festival, but perhaps at the top of the list was that a new film from Gaspar Noé was not only ...
Premiering at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year was the directorial debut of Vice Principals producer Jonathan Watson, which, of course, reunited him...
This spring saw the release of Wes Anderson's ninth feature film and his second stop-motion animation, Isle of Dogs, an ode to Japanese cinema and specifica...
It’s not often we get sequels in the world of documentaries, but when the original film won the Palme d’Or and is (by far) the highest-grossing documentary ...
One of the films set to go to Cannes, but dropped due to their kerfuffle with Netflix was Hold the Dark, from Blue Ruin and Green Room director Jeremy Sauln...
"All great stories have two things in common: they’re simple, they’re not complicated, and they’re filmic. Look at all the great westerns: the story is dead...
After leading one of the most formally interesting, bold studio films of the year with Annihilation, Natalie Portman is back this fall with two festival pre...
Following up his Oscar-winning drama Son of Saul (unpopular, by at least The Academy's standards), László Nemes is facing the beast that is a sophomore effo...
Ever since Steven Spielberg set foot on the beach, directors have been attempting to recapture a similar level of thrills and artistry in the shark movie, usual...
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