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The Film Stage Show Ep. 249 – Okja

We discuss the newest film from Snowpiercer director Bong Joon Ho, which arrives on Netflix and in limited release on this Wednesday....

Review: ‘Baby Driver’ Confirms Edgar Wright as the Master of Modern Comedic Cinema

Whether or not he is, in fact, the first person who thought to create rhythm between non-diegetic music cues and diegetic gunshots, the gesture is but a plethor...

Robert Pattinson is on the Run in New Trailer for Safdies’ ‘Good Time’

More often than not a late-summer release is for the leftovers of the season, but this year, the slate is looking mighty promising. Alongside new films from...

Jackie Chan Wants Revenge in Trailer for Martin Campbell’s ‘The Foreigner’

Jackie Chan wants revenge in The Foreigner, the new action thriller from Casino Royale director Martin Campbell. Chan plays a restaurant owner who loses his...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 248 – The Bad Batch

We talk Ana Lily Amirpour's follow up to her breakout hit A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the desert cannibal romance The Bad Batch....

Review: ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ is a Robotically Operatic Trilogy Capper

War for the Planet of the Apes is the most serious film ever made, or at least comes across that way with every decision made by director and co-writer Matt Ree...

‘The Incredible Jessica James’ Takes on New York in Trailer for Sundance Comedy

Netflix has released the first teaser for The Incredible Jessica James, a comedy that centers around an aspiring playwright who develops a relationship with...

John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson Form a Bond in Trailer for kogonada’s ‘Columbus’

The path to becoming a director is one generally accompanied by a profound knowledge of film history, but that passion is rarely more public then when it co...

New to Streaming: ‘The Bad Batch,’ ‘Summer Hours,’ ‘Kong: Skull Island,’ ‘Paterson,’ and More

All the newly streaming films on Netflix, FilmStruck, Amazon, and more....

Michael Cera, Abbi Jacobson, Tavi Gevinson & More Survive New York in Trailer for ‘Person to Person’

Multiple New York stories come together in Dustin Guy Defa’s Person to Person, an ensemble piece that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this yea...

News

Exclusive: Altered Innocence Acquires Restoration of Srđan Karanović’s Virgina for Fall Release

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Trailers

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

Reviews

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

Features

New to Streaming: Blue Film, I Am Frankelda, It’s Dorothy! & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Douglas Sirk in 3D, The Organizer, Body Double & More

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

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

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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

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