The Film Stage’s 2019 Holiday Gift Guide

The holidays are upon us, so whether you looking for film-related gift ideas or simply want to pick up some of the finest the year had to offer in the category for yourself, we have a gift guide for you...

Posterized December 2019: ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire,’ ‘A Hidden Life,’ ‘In Fabric,’ and More

We explore the art of the month. December is here with a fantastic collection of poster designs from big studio pictures to small independents looking to standout against them....

Posterized November 2019: ‘Waves,’ ‘Knives Out,’ ‘Marriage Story,’ and More

We explore the art of the month. September is here with a fantastic collection of poster designs from big studio pictures to small independents looking to standout against them....

‘Light From Light’ Director Paul Harrill on the Comfort in Ghost Stories and Breaking Screenwriting Rules

We discussed how horror has conditioned our minds, the emotional themes the film explores, casting Jim Gaffigan, and more....

15 Films to See in November

The year is winding down, which means many of our most-anticipated films and festival favorites will finally be arriving in theaters....

BIFF Review: ‘Foosballers’ Shows the Sport Isn’t Merely a Recreational Bar Game

Sports documentaries are generally allowed to make some assumptions. Talk about baseball, football, basketball, hockey, or soccer can gloss over the structural ...

How Bong Joon Ho’s ‘Parasite’ Finds the Humanity and Tragedy in Modern Society

His Palme d’Or winner captures the dichotomy of the modern family in a continuously regressive capitalist society, the idealization of glamour and wealth in a place where the poor can barely keep themselves alive....

Arnaud Desplechin on Melding Frederick Wiseman and Sidney Lumet with ‘Oh Mercy!’

For fans of his highly idiosyncratic filmmaking, Oh Mercy! is a fascinating entry into Desplechin’s oeuvre for precisely all of the reasons that it deviates from the characteristics we’ve come to associate with him....

‘Light From Light’ Trailer: A Grounded Ghost Story Like None You’ve Seen Before

If the jump scares and horror set pieces of Paranormal Activity or The Conjuring franchises were exchanged for an authentic reckoning of the tangled emotion...

New to Streaming: ‘High Life,’ ‘In the Tall Grass,’ ‘Diego Maradona,’ ‘Toy Story 4,’ and More

All the newly streaming films of Netflix, Amazon, MUBI, and more....