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James L. Brooks Finally Returns with First Trailer for Ella McCay

In the fifteen interminably long years since James L. Brooks' last directorial feature, the kind of adult-focused, warm dramas with recognizably emphatic chara...

New Trailer for Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest Finds Denzel Washington Facing a Moral Dilemma

Spike Lee’s first narrative feature in five years is Highest 2 Lowest, his reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low that marks a reteam with Denzel Wa...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Twin Peaks, Walter Murch, Brian De Palma’s Unproduced Script & More

David Lynch passed a little more than six months ago, and the world of cinema is still mourning. (Honestly, that may never end.) Let’s start with a book devote...

Posterized August 2025: By the Stream, Stranger Eyes, Harvest & More

Despite there being a bunch of sequels (Nobody 2, The Bad Guys 2, Ne Zha 2, and Freakier Friday) and remakes or reboots (The Naked Gun, The Toxic Aveng...

The Naked Gun Review: Akiva Schaffer’s Reboot Spoofs a New Era of Cinematic Crime Pulp

In its original iteration, the Zucker brothers’ Naked Gun wasn’t just carried by Leslie Nielsen’s performance––nearly every aspect of the first two David Zucke...

New to Streaming: 28 Years Later, Michael Roemer, Hot Milk, Killer Films at 30 & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

The B-Side Ep. 167 – John Frankenheimer (with Blake Howard)

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.&nb...

Exclusive Trailer for Locarno Premiere White Snail, From the Directors of Space Dogs

After the fascinating Space Dogs and Dreaming Dogs, directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter are shifting their perspective beyond the canine world with their fo...

NYC Weekend Watch: Silent Movie Week, Leos Carax, Speed Racer, The Fall of Otrar & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of Modern ArtSilent Movie Week is underway; listen to our interview with curator Dav...

Exclusive Trailer for the Quay Brothers’ Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Presented by Christopher Nolan

In a momentous cinematic event, the Quay Brothers are returning with their first feature since 2005. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, a stop-motion ...

News

The Criterion Channel’s January Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Kleber Mendoça Filho, Terence Stamp & More

The Criterion Collection’s March 2026 Lineup Features Killers of the Flower Moon on 4K

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

The Odyssey Trailer Teases Christopher Nolan’s Mythic Epic

Tom Cruise Wants to Save Humanity in First Teaser for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger

Pedro Almodóvar Returns to Spain in First Trailer for Bitter Christmas

Reviews

Is This Thing On? Review: Bradley Cooper’s Gentle Film About Marital Strife

Marty Supreme Review: Timothée Chalamet Reaches a New Pinnacle in Josh Safdie’s Propulsive Drama

Cover-Up Review: The Most Important American Documentary of the Year

Features

Christopher Schobert’s Top 10 Films of 2025

New to Streaming: One Battle After Another, It Was Just an Accident, Song to Song, The Running Man & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Twin Peaks, Breezy, Gus Van Sant, Ken Jacobs & More

Interviews

The Testament of Ann Lee Cinematographer William Rexer on Capturing the Dance and Believing in Mona Fastvold

“The Story is Told by Faces”: Darius Khondji on the Cinematography of Marty Supreme and His Prolific Year

“It’s a Mission: Impossible”: Bi Gan on the Long Journey and Long Takes of Resurrection

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side Ep. 171 – Richard Linklater (with Ryland Aldrich)

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