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Jodie Foster & Tahar Rahim Lead First Trailer for Guantanamo Bay Drama The Mauritanian

Over the next few months, we'll be seeing a handful of late-breaking dramas vying for awards attention considering the delayed eligibility periods for the Osca...

Studio Ghibli Unveils Trailer for First Fully CGI Film Earwig and The Witch

This summer, some blowback was stirred up when the first images from Studio Ghibli's first fully 3D CGI animation arrived. Earwig and The Witch, Goro Miyazaki'...

Carrie Brownstein, Justin Kurzel, Xavier Dolan, Alex Garland & More Announce New Projects

No stranger to rock and roll herself, Carrie Brownstein will be helming a biopic of the band Heart for Amazon Studios. In a SiriusXM interview, Heart frontwoma...

Minor Premise Review: A Brain Battles in Impressive Sci-Fi Indie

The most important memory for audiences to remember is the one Ethan (Sathya Sridharan) specifically tried to forget. His father (Nikolas Kontomanolis) is sitt...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 409 – Happiest Season (with Shayna Maci Warner)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Shayna Maci Warner to disc...

15 Films to See in December

Congratulations. You've almost endured the hellscape that is 2020. As we look towards the final month of the year, things are looking brighter on the cinema si...

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Review: Chadwick Boseman Gives the Best Performance of His Truncated Career

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom director George C. Wolfe and screenwriter Ruben Santiago-Hudson may not bring the same cinematic eye that Denzel Washington infused in...

Mayor Review: A Riveting Portrait of a City Searching for a Home

The reign of bigotry and terror from Donald Trump and his administration can often take the form of a myopic view for those in the United States, witnessing on...

Slamdance Film Festival Announces 2021 Lineup and Free All-Access Passes

As with most festivals in a pandemic world, Slamdance Film Festival is changing things up with their 2021 edition. Moving a few weeks back to February 12-25, n...

Identifying Features Trailer: Sundance Winner Follows a Mother’s Harrowing Journey in Mexico

The winner of the Audience Award and Best Screenplay in the World Cinema (Dramatic) section at Sundance Film Festival this year, Kino Lorber has now unveiled t...

News

New Restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils Leads Cannes Classics 2026 Lineup

Whit Stillman Plans Return with Adam Brody-Led A Night at Claridge’s; Sebastian Stan and Ana de Armas to Lead Felipe Gálvez’s Impunity

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Rare Touching the Skin of Eeriness Screens May 19

Trailers

Maddie’s Secret Trailer: John Early Crafts a Sincere Satire in Directorial Debut

Kamal Aljafari Documents a Vanishing Land In Exclusive Trailer Debut for With Hasan in Gaza

Dominic Sessa is Anthony Bourdain in First Trailer for Matt Johnson’s Tony

Reviews

Blue Film Review: Masterful Two-Hander Confronts Flaws with Empathy

Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) Review: Lucrecia Martel’s Essential Document of Indigenous Resistance

This is Not a Drill Review: A Sharp Portrait of Climate Activists Who Still Fight

Features

Posterized May 2026: Renoir, I Love Boosters, Backrooms & More

New to Streaming: A Magnificent Life, Wuthering Heights, Stranger Eyes, An Unfinished Film & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Tony Leung, Bellissima, Whisper of the Heart & More

Interviews

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

Arnaud Desplechin on Two Pianos, Nervous Breakdowns, and Making Cinema Bigger Than Life

“Objectivity Is Not Possible”: Lucrecia Martel on Crafting Her First Documentary

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

The B-Sides of Steve Martin with Eric D. Snider

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