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Cannes Review: Boy from Heaven is an Engaging, Conventional Mosque-Set Spy Thriller

Spy thrillers are a dime a dozen. Rarer is encountering one set in an Egyptian mosque, much less Al-Azhar, one of the most significant mosques in Islamic histo...

Cannes Review: God’s Creatures Finds Emily Watson in Stellar Form

Some actors slip into familiar roles like old sweaters. Emily Watson might prefer a raincoat. The actress first graced our screens in Breaking the Waves for La...

Marielle Heller, Paul Greengrass, Audrey Diwan, Michel Gondry & More Set Next Films

The Cannes market ensures there is no shortage of news updates, and so we have another round-up. The talented Marielle Heller has found her next project as Var...

Cannes Review: Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo is a Bressonian Joy

In one of analytic philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's most widely shared quotes, he mused that "if a lion could talk, we would not understand him.” The barrier ...

Three Thousand Years of Longing Trailer: George Miller Returns with Fantasy Tale Starring Tilda Swinton & Idris Elba

Between Mad Max: Fury Road and his forthcoming Furiosa, George Miller has directed the fantasy drama Three Thousand Years of Longing, coming at the end of Augu...

Cannes Review: Armageddon Time is a Triumphant Tragedy from James Gray

Armageddon Time is the sort of film usually invoked as a "portrait of the nation" or "state of the union address," something taking the temperature of a countr...

New to Streaming: Deception, RRR, Dual, Hold Your Fire and More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week's selections below and past r...

The B-Side – Almost Famous: Taylor Kitsch (with Valerie Ettenhofer)

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they ma...

U.S. Trailer for Christos Nikou’s Apples Imagines a World Losing Its Memory

Premiering at Venice Film Festival to strong acclaim back in 2020, Christos Nikou's Apples would go on to become Greece's official Oscar entry and now, at long...

Young Love Blossoms in Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Leonie Krippendorff’s Cocoon

Nominated for a Generation14 Plus Crystal Bear and Teddy for Best Feature Film at the 2020 Berlinale, Leonie Krippendorff's queer coming-of-age drama Cocoon is...

News

Bertand Bonello, Takashi Miike, Nikyatu Jusu, and More Plan Next Features

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

Trailers

Billy Zane Transforms into Marlon Brando in First Trailer for Waltzing with Brando

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

Reviews

Riga Review: Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Locarno-Winning Toxic Will Worm Its Way Inside You

AFI Fest Review: September 5 is a Competent But Bloodless Thriller

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

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

“Life Is Worth Celebrating”: Tyler Taormina on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

Kani Kusruti on All We Imagine as Light, Girls Will Be Girls, and Indian Moviegoing Culture

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

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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