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Busan Review: Im Sang-soo’s Heaven: To the Land of Happiness is an Entertaining, If Formulaic Odd Couple Comedy

In summer 2020, faced with the unenviable choice between canceling and going virtual—which was never really an option, given its longstanding anti-streaming st...

Cyrano Trailer: Joe Wright, The National, and Peter Dinklage Team for Musical Adaptation

Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Hong Sangsoo, Zack Snyder, and Edgar Wright aren't the only directors with two films arriving this year. Joe Wright, whose delayed drama The...

Exclusive Trailer for Joshua Bonnetta’s The Two Sights Takes a Hypnotic Trip to the Outer Hebrides

Following screenings at the Berlin International Film Festival, Art of the Real, Cinéma du Réel, and more, Cinema Guild will release Joshua Bonnetta’s hypnotic...

First Trailer for Sean Baker’s Red Rocket Finds Simon Rex Seeking Redemption

In what will surely be his most divisive––and in my opinion, best––film, Sean Baker is back with Red Rocket. Giving one of the year's finest performances, Simo...

Joshua Oppenheimer to Direct Tilda Swinton in a “Golden-Age Musical” About the End of the World

Never say the business of filmmaking is predictable. Following up his two staggering, bleak documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, director ...

Cate Blanchett Attached to Pedro Almodóvar’s A Manual for Cleaning Women

As Pedro Almodóvar's latest film Parallel Mothers finally arrives stateside this week to close out the 59th New York Film Festival, the director is already set...

No Time to Die Review: Daniel Craig’s 007 Swan Song is a Rocky But Bold Farewell

“This never happened to the other fellow” quipped a young, eager George Lazenby in 1969. The opening of Peter R. Hunt’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is to d...

The Film Stage Show Classic – Cape Fear (with Peter Avellino)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by Peter Avellino for a special 3...

16 Films to See in October

With only a few months left to go in 2021, October brings by far the finest lineup of the year thus far. From festival favorites to a few blockbusters actually...

The B-Side – James Bond: Part I (with Gavin Mevius)

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...

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: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

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

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

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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