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Slingshot Trailer: Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne Venture to the Far Reaches of the Galaxy

The return of the Alien franchise isn't the only space adventure of August. Mikael Håfström, director of the Oscar-nominated Evil and 1408, is headed deep in o...

Claire Denis Says She Would Direct a Batman Movie Under One Condition

It's a great time to be a Claire Denis fan. After delivering two (severely underrated) movies in one year with Both Sides of the Blade and Stars at Noon, she's...

Exclusive: New Restoration of Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer’s Cult Classic Candy Mountain Coming to Theaters This Fall

100 years ago this fall, Robert Frank was born. The legendary Swiss-born photographer and filmmaker has a number of centenary celebrations, including the first...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Serpent’s Path and More Set for San Sebastián Film Festival

At long last, we now have at least one festival premiere set for one of our most-anticipated films of the year. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Serpent’s Path, a ...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 544 – Twisters (with Conor Clancy)

Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Conor Clancy to discuss Twisters. Enter our giveaways, get access t...

Fantasia Review: Hell Hole Finds the Adams Family Serving Up a Parasitic Creature Feature

The parasitic creature at the center of The Adams Family's Hell Hole (comprising John Adams and Toby Poser as directors/co-writers/stars, with daughter Lulu jo...

Dìdi (弟弟) Review: Snapshots of Growing Up in an Early Social Media Age

While trying to chat up classmate Madi (Mahaela Park) on AIM, Chris (Izaac Wang) skims her MySpace for an "in". Then, beneath all the Paramore pictures and low...

Exclusive Trailer for Shelly Yo’s Award-Winning Directorial Debut Smoking Tigers

Premiering at last year's Tribeca Festival where it picked up Best Screenplay and Best Performance, Shelly Yo's directorial debut Smoking Tigers is a nuanced c...

Callie Hernandez Follows Strange Paths In Exclusive Trailer for Courtney Stephens’ Locarno Premiere Invention

In March I had the fortune to see a rough cut of Invention, a new film by Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme, The American Sector) that toes the documentary-fictio...

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Claude Schmitz’s The Other Laurens Plunges Into Seedy Neo-Noir

Likely the world doesn't have enough neon-tinged, French-Belgian neo-noirs, making welcome the arrival of The Other Laurens. Claude Schmitz's 2023 Directors' F...

News

Cinema Guild to Unveil Otar Iosseliani Restorations This Summer

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Trailers

Will Poulter Navigates an American Crisis In First Trailer for Union County

Exclusive Trailer for Japan Cuts 2026 Highlights the Best of New Japanese Cinema

Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton Traverse Giallo Underworld In Trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell

Reviews

Camp Review: An Absorbing, Dreamlike Journey of Finding Yourself

Jackass: Best and Last Review: Knoxville & Co. Return for One Last Encore

Romería Review: A Personal Tale of Intergenerational Dissonance

Features

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Interviews

Ross McElwee on Remake and the Painful, Profound Process of Making a Testament to His Son’s Life

Tamra Davis on Billy Madison, Half Baked, Watching Fellini and Coppola on Set, Bonding with Britney Spears, and The Best Summer

“There’s No Incentive for a Filmmaker to Retire”: Alex Cox on Returning With Dead Souls

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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