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True/False Review: Going Varsity in Mariachi is a Harmonic Symphony of Culture and Community

"To make a dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence." This quote from civil rights activist Cesar Chavez ...

Jim Jarmusch’s Band SQÜRL Announces Debut Album; Listen to the First Track

Considering it's never been more than a few years between feature films for Jim Jarmusch, here's hoping we get news about his next project soon. In the meantim...

Scream VI Review: Slasher Franchise Returns to Form with Freewheeling Sense of Lunacy

With almost twenty-seven years under its belt and now a sixth installment to its name, the Scream movies have shifted focus yet again. The series once about it...

Zhang Yimou’s Full River Red, China’s Top-Grossing Film of 2023, Will Arrive in North American Theaters Next Week

Working at a Soderberghian clip, Chinese director Zhang Yimou's latest epic, Full River Red, arrived in Chinese theaters at the start of the year where it quic...

To Catch a Killer Trailer: Wild Tales Director Damián Szifron Returns with Shailene Woodley & Ben Mendelsohn

It's been nearly a decade since Argentine filmmaker Damián Szifron broke out with his Oscar-nominated drama Wild Tales. In the years since he's been attached t...

Spike Lee and Jonathan Majors Eye Reteam with Da Understudy

Since he launched his feature directorial career with She's Gotta Have It, the longest break Spike Lee has taken between narrative films is the four years betw...

Go Behind the Scenes of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City Ahead of Likely Cannes 2023 Premiere

We're now in the year of two new features from Wes Anderson. Before his Roald Dahl adaptation of The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, starring Benedict Cum...

Adam Driver Says Megalopolis is Unlike Anything Francis Ford Coppola Has Done Before

It's hard to believe we will actually see Francis Ford Coppola's decades-in-development passion project Megalopolis in the near future as production is nearing...

U.S. Trailer for Dardennes’ Cannes Winner Tori and Lokita, Arriving This Month

Despite their stock seemingly falling in the decade since the widely acclaimed Two Days, One Night, a new film by the Dardennes will always have our curio...

The Unheard Trailer: The Writers of Crawl & Director of The Beach House Team for New Horror Feature

Brothers and screenwriting partners Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen provided some fun, creature-based thrillers back in 2019 with Crawl and now they are ...

News

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

Tarsem Singh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kim Jee-woon, Paul W.S. Anderson & More Set Next Films

Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue Featuring Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clint Eastwood, Ari Aster & More

Trailers

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Steven Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story in New Trailer for Presence

Reviews

AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Paddington in Peru Review: Threequel Fails to Climb to Franchise Heights

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

Features

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Posterized November 2024: A Traveler’s Needs, Queer, Flow, Bird & More

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

Interviews

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Director Johan Grimonprez on a Jazz-Fueled, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Displaced Blackness

Podcasts

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

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