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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...

Fantasia Review: The G Finds Dale Dickey Bringing the Rage

Ann Hunter (Dale Dickey) loves her husband. She's simply never been the caregiver type. That's what drew him to her in the first place––leaving his wife to be ...

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...

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is 215 Minutes, Presented in 70mm Across 26 Reels

Six years after Vox Lux, Brady Corbet is finally returning with his next feature The Brutalist. Led by Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Raf...

Only the River Flows Review: A Small Town Neo-Noir that Balances Empathy and Melancholy

Wei Shujun's detective noir Only the River Flows (based on a story of the same name by Chinese author Yu Hua) is set in a small town along a river in China's J...

NYC Weekend Watch: Mexican Popular Cinema, Jean-Pierre Melville, Playtime on 70mm, Bresson & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA retrospective of Mexican popular cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s...

News

MUBI’s December 2024 Lineup Includes Dahomey, Bird, The People’s Joker & More

No Other Land Announced as Winner of the 2024 Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award

First Images From Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet Remake Starring Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Bowen Yang & More

Trailers

DIG! XX Trailer: Ondi Timoner’s Cult Classic Rock Doc Gets Expanded Edition This January

Exclusive Trailer for Ben Petrie’s The Heirloom Introduces Acclaimed Rom-Com Psychodrama

First Trailer for Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope Offers Up Romance in Naples

Reviews

The Black Sea Review: A Dynamic Lead Performance Drives Familiar Fish-Out-of-Water Story

Thessaloniki Review: When the Light Breaks Showcases a Dawn-to-Dusk Tragedy with Raw Depth

Wicked: Part I Review: Wizard of Oz Prequel Is Stale as Blockbusters Can Be

Features

New to Streaming: Blitz, The Piano Lesson, Flipside, We Live in Time, Alien: Romulus & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Dirty Work, Shelley Duvall, Robert Frank & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Flow Director Gints Zilbalodis on Animating Animals, Allegories, and Cinema vs. Videogames

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

Podcasts

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

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

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

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