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The Best Documentaries of 2017

Film preservation, healing from past trauma, ISIS, libraries, chimps, rats, and cats -- these were just a few of the subjects and stories that this year's documentary offerings brought us....

‘Sicario 2: Soldado’ Trailer: Josh Brolin & Benicio Del Toro Return to the Border

After Denis Villeneuve's crime thriller Sicario a few years back became a hit, as Hollywood often decides to do, a "saga" has now been born. While Emily Blu...

The Con Begins in the First Trailer for ‘Ocean’s 8’

Steven Soderbergh is back in the directing chair, but after directing a redneck spin on Ocean's 11 with Logan Lucky, he didn't return for Ocean's 8, a femal...

First Trailer for ‘Mortal Engines’ Introduces Peter Jackson-Produced Steampunk Adventure

After exhausting himself with the demands of The Hobbit trilogy, Peter Jackson is taking a break from directing with no new projects announced. However, he'...

Jack Black is ‘The Polka King’ in First Trailer for Ponzi Scheme Comedy

Regardless of the quality of the final project, Jack Black and his boundless energy is often the best part of any film he's a part of. This can be said of t...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 276 – Star Wars: The Last Jedi

We tackle perhaps the biggest film of the year. It's Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the latest Star Wars Saga film, starring Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and the late Carrie Fisher....

TFSS Video Game Review – Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Welcome, one and all, to a brand new kind of episode from your friends here at The Film Stage Show. Today, Michael Snydel and I sit down to talk about one o...

The Best Double Features of 2017

Few things are more sublime than finding back-to-back features that hit some specific thematic sweet spot. We pick the best of the year....

Review: ‘The Ballad of Lefty Brown’ is a Hollow, Half-Hearted Western

Some obligatory credit is due to those ambitious (or, depending on the results, naive) enough to establish their name as a feature film director in 2017 on the ...

New to Streaming: ‘Dunkirk,’ ‘Phoenix,’ ‘Wormwood,’ ‘The Unknown Girl,’ and More

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options -- not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves -- we've taken it upon ourselves to hig...

News

Kenneth Lonergan Returns with Tomorrow Is a Drag; Aubrey Plaza, Adam Driver, Matthew Broderick, and Vanessa Kirby Starring

NYC Weekend Watch: Korean Cinema’s Celluloid Fever, Southland Tales, Gamer & More

The Criterion Channel’s June Lineup Features Odysseys, Weddings, James Bond, and Brian Eno

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Lisandro Alonso’s Double Freedom Marks a Powerful Reunion

Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig Inhabit an Artist In Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse

The Rivals of Amziah King Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Leads Andrew Patterson’s Crime Thriller

Reviews

Cannes Review: All of a Sudden Is Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Most Empathetic, Humanist Film to Date

Cannes Review: Clarissa Provides a Formally Adventurous Showcase For Sophie Okonedo

Cannes Review: The Meltdown Is an Elusive Chilean Chiller

Features

New to Streaming: Yes, The Love That Remains, The Christophers, Project Hail Mary & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

Interviews

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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