Earlier this year we called, without hesitation or compunction, Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back one of 2021's most-anticipated films. If the first traile...
For a movie about a fated love (Leslie Odom Jr.'s Nick and Cynthia Erivo's Janine) being undermined by a jealous ex (Orlando Bloom's Tommy), I didn't expect to...
Chinese cinema is at a weird place. On the one hand, three of 2021's top five worldwide grossers are, as of writing, Chinese, so it’s doing more than okay on t...
All About My Sisters, the nearly three-hour documentary debut from Wang Qiong, could be called All About My Sister. More specifically her sister Jin, who was a...
The fall movie season is so packed that it's easy to forget we have a new Abel Ferrara movie coming—a good one, to hear word. After winning Locarno's Best Dire...
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 they made in...
With it being seven years since his last live-action film, 2014's The Grand Budapast Hotel, Wes Anderson is hard at work. Following a Cannes premiere, The Fren...
"I think the Epstein stuff and all the details of it are so horrifying that it felt like a good fit, genre-wise, for a psychological horror," Red Scare's Dasha...
Judging by The Last Duel, 14th-century France was as gray and miserable as you’d expect. And yes, this is a long, talky, literary, extremely dour film, basical...
One can't help being inspired by Selma Blair's transparency on her Multiple Sclerosis. So many people's first impulse would be to hide—especially after having ...