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True/False Review: Time Bomb Y2K Returns to the Mass Hysteria of Global Technological Collapse

We all felt doomsday looming over us when COVID-19 spread rapidly in March 2020. HBO's all-archival documentary Time Bomb Y2K reminds us that, pre-pandemic, th...

True/False Review: Dogwatch Examines Masculinity and the Lives of Private Mercenaries on the High Seas

Institutions dedicate extensive effort towards preparing for the future, often implementing protocols that help arrange for the inevitable, but what happens wh...

Scarlett Johansson, Michael Fassbender, Owen Wilson & Penélope Cruz to Star in Nancy Meyers’ Next Rom-Com

Update #2: Netflix has pulled the plug on the film due to budget issues, Deadline reports. Here's hoping Netflix smartens up or another studio comes in to save...

Berlinale Review: Music is a Beguiling Symphony Filled with Visual and Emotional Riches

Thirty or so minutes into Angela Schanelec’s Music, a character makes a startling discovery. We’re inside a prison on the outskirts of an unidentified Greek to...

Jean-Luc Godard’s Final Work Funny Wars Rumored to Premiere at Cannes

Hardly presumptuous to claim cinema is in a post-Godard era; perhaps only inaccurate to suggest we'll ever be post-Godard. Case in point the rumors that Godard...

The Greatest Directors of All-Time, Ranked by Sight & Sound Votes

While we've known the results of Sight & Sound's once-in-a-decade greatest films of all-time poll for a few months now, the recent release of the individua...

Watch a 2.5-Hour Conversation with Steven Spielberg, Todd Field, Daniels, Martin McDonagh & Joseph Kosinski

A welcome annual tradition, the Directors Guild of America has once again gathered their nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature...

Gods of Mexico Review: A Majestic Journey of Poetry, Anthropology, and Cosmology

The Aztec story of creation is one of birth through destruction; of life existing because death occurred. According to their myths, in the beginning, the god Ō...

Robert Eggers Begins Shooting Nosferatu, Adds Aaron Taylor-Johnson to Cast

A project Robert Eggers has been talking about since his debut feature The Witch, and on his mind well before that, I never thought his take on Nosferatu would...

Palm Trees and Power Lines Director Jamie Dack on Translating Her Teenage Experiences, the Five Stages of Grooming, and Writing Aphex Twin a Letter

In Palm Trees and Power Lines, director Jamie Dack carefully sets up the factors that lead teenager Lea (newcomer Lily McInerny) into a relationship with Tom (...

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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