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The Feast Trailer Offers a Taste of Acclaimed Welsh Folk Horror

This Thanksgiving, if one is looking to bite into some post-Halloween horror, a new Welsh folk horror feature looks to satisfy. Lee Haven Jones' The Feast, whi...

MUBI GO, Featuring Curated Theatrical Moviegoing for $10.99 a Month, is Coming to the U.S.

MoviePass is, sadly, dead and gone but the major theatrical chains took a few lessons from the rather radical experiment in exhibition. For a more premium pric...

Minyan Review: An Affecting, Lovely Brighton Beach Memoir

The year is 1986, the setting is New York City, and the AIDS epidemic is running rampant. Our hero David (Samuel H. Levine) is a teenager living in Brighton Be...

The B-Side – In Conversation with Alessandro Nivola Part II

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...

The Lost Daughter Trailer: Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson & Jessie Buckley Lead Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Directorial Debut

Arriving at the tail end of this year is a film with quite some pedigree. For her directorial debut, Maggie Gyllenhaal has adapted one of the most acclaimed wr...

BFI London Review: Mark Rylance is the World’s Worst Golfer in Craig Roberts’ Sweet-Natured The Phantom of the Open

Perhaps the biggest cultural difference between the U.K. and U.S. is the way success is viewed. While America tends to celebrate those who make it, British cul...

BFI London Review: Ron’s Gone Wrong is Soulless, Algorithmic Filmmaking

For fledgling animation studios, the first impression is always the most important. Pixar managed to cement their brand of heartfelt, pop culture-inflected sto...

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Joe Odagiri’s They Say Nothing Stays the Same, Shot by Christopher Doyle

Japanese actor Joe Odagiri (I Wish, Air Doll) has made his directorial debut with They Say Nothing Stays the Same, a drama that premiered at the Venice Film Fe...

Halloween Kills Review: David Gordon Green’s Sequel Fails Its Audience

Where does one even begin with Halloween Kills? Is it paramount to speak of its content, which achieves the impossible of being so stretched out that it couldn...

I Was a Simple Man Trailer Introduces Christopher Makoto Yogi’s Serene Hawaiian Ghost Story

Following up his lovely, meditative debut feature August at Akiko's, Christopher Makoto Yogi returned this year with I Was a Simple Man, a serene ghost story s...

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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