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Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest Plan Spinal Tap II for 2024

Just today, coming back from picking up a salad and potato chips—yin to yang, etc—I found myself wondering how Rob Reiner (few people's idea of a pantheon film...

Michelangelo Frammartino on Il Buco, the Melancholy of Cave Exploration, and Italian Cinema

Slyly and majestically bringing a sense of documentary-like authenticity to his humbling, spiritual portraits of the ways humankind and nature intersect, Itali...

Trailer for Acclaimed Beba Probes Generational Trauma

If festival-going is (ideally and ostensibly) an act of scouring new talent, the difficulty is not letting something slip through the cracks. Perhaps case in p...

Adam Driver & More to Lead Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, Beginning Production This Fall

At long last, Francis Ford Coppola's sci-fi epic Megalopolis is moving forward though with quite a casting change-up. Although Oscar Isaac, James Caan, Zendaya...

Our 20 Most-Anticipated 2022 Cannes Film Festival Premieres

At long last, Cannes returns to its proper May slot. With the event kicking off next week, running from the 17th through the 28th, much cinematic greatness awa...

Cha Cha Real Smooth Trailer: Cooper Raiff and Dakota Johnson Get the Party Started

On the heels of their Best Picture-winning CODA, Apple TV+ is gearing up for the release of another major Sundance acquisition: Cooper Raiff's sophomore featur...

Top Gun: Maverick Review: A Legacy Sequel That Soars

“He’s the fastest man alive.” Such is the kind of open self-awareness that is tastefully deployed throughout Top Gun: Maverick. Despite being the latest in a l...

New Trailer for Phil Tippett’s Mad God Brings a Decades-Long Vision to the Screen

With his work on Star Wars, RoboCop, Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers, and many more, the Oscar-winning Phil Tippett has come to define the landscape of v...

Richard Linklater to Direct Houston Hitman Action Comedy Starring Glen Powell

It's quite a shame that Richard Linklater's stellar memory piece Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood seemed to come and go last month with little fanfare, but a ...

Montana Story Review: A Western Melodrama Done Extremely Right

It takes a certain amount of expertise to build a narrative without telling the audience everything as soon as possible. In Montana Story, filmmakers Scott McG...

News

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Trailers

First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Follows Daniel Craig Searching for a High

Ride a Dreamlike Musical Carousel in Exclusive Trailer for Signe Birkova’s Lotus, Partly Shot on a 1920s Camera

Raoul Peck Investigates a Photographer Pioneer in First Trailer for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Reviews

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

AFI Fest Review: My Favourite Cake Finds an Autumnal Romance Blooming Under Iranian Authoritarianism

Features

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

New to Streaming: Trap, One False Move, Rap World, Daaaaaalí!, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Candy Mountain, Chantal Akerman, Azazel Jacobs & More

Interviews

“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

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

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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