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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...

The B-Side – George Clooney

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars and filmmakers and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the...

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

I Want Your Sex Teaser: Gregg Araki Returns with Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman

Whalefall Trailer: Austin Abrams Gets Trapped In the Belly of the Beast

Once Upon a Time in Harlem Teaser: The Documentary of The Year (and 1972) Arrives This October

Reviews

Disclosure Day Review: A Soul-Searching, Spine-Tingling Blockbuster Triumph

Tribeca Review: Ponderosa Takes Enigmatic, Comic Aim at America’s National Myths

Tribeca Review: The Revisionist Is a Comedy of Manners That Turns Convoluted

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & More

New to Streaming: Pillion, Is God Is, Erupcja, Omaha & More

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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