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CIFF Dispatch: Kubrick by Kubrick, Mama Gloria, and Dear Comrades!

With another day at the (virtual) 56th Chicago International Film Festival comes another batch to sift through. It was a lighter batch too, not just in numbers...

Werner Herzog Looks to the Skies in First Trailer for Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds

After going Into the Inferno with Clive Oppenheimer, the duo will look to the skies for their next cinematic exploration. Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds...

Love and Monsters Review: Dylan O’Brien Leads a Well-Rounded Adventure Rooted in Reality

We're seven years past the apocalypse. Eight years since the world banded together to send every nuclear missile on Earth into the sky to stop an asteroid hell...

Martin Eden Director Pietro Marcello on the Damage of Neoliberalism and the Need for True Socialism

For his adaptation of Jack London’s “Martin Eden," Pietro Marcello changed the setting of from the novel’s pre-WWI America to pre-World War II Italy. He told u...

Minding the Gap, Luis Buñuel Box Set & More Coming to Criterion in January

The Criterion Collection will be heralding in 2021 with a mix of new and old. First up, Bing Liu's stellar documentary Minding the Gap will be joining the coll...

New to Streaming: Time, Martin Eden, World of Tomorrow Episode Three, Kajillionaire & More

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles ...

CIFF Dispatch: Belushi, Finding Yingying, Farewell Amor, and Undine

While my first day of the 56th Chicago International Film Festival brought four scripted movies, day two had a bit more variety on that front. Yes, Thursday th...

The Devil Has a Name Review: The Fight Against Big Oil Becomes Pulpy Entertainment

Big Oil has been wrecking the environment for decades with spills, fires, and wastewater ponds amongst other atrocities to Mother Nature that place their botto...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Goodfellas, Kelly Reichardt, Oliver Stone, Cannon Films, and More

It has been a few months since our last rundown of new books exploring the world of cinema (and a little beyond), and the pile is growing with noteworthy texts...

Kazuo Ishiguro Has Scripted a Remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru With Bill Nighy Set to Star

Akira Kurosawa's 1952 classic Ikiru––which we recently highlighted in our feature exploring the best films about mortality––is getting an English-language adap...

News

David Fincher’s Remastered Se7en Comes to IMAX to Kick Off 2025

Criterion Collection’s February 2025 Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Crossing Delancey & More

Exclusive: New Restoration of Queer Drama By Hook or By Crook Acquired by Altered Innocence for Spring 2025 Release

Trailers

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson Find Pleasure in New Trailer for Babygirl

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

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

Features

Appreciating a Pioneer: Pittsburgh Celebrates Queer Local Filmmaker Roger Jacoby with World Premiere Restorations

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: The Limits of Control, Ealing Studios & More

Interviews

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

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

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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