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Tom Hardy is Back in Action in First Trailer for Gareth Evans’ Havoc

After beginning production way back in 2021, The Raid director Gareth Evans' action thriller Havoc will finally see the light of day. Led by Tom Hardy in his f...

Slamdance Review: Stolen Kingdom is a Light but Entertaining Look at Disney Obsessives

Depending on who you ask, the cultural domination of the Walt Disney Company can be a wonderful thing or an inescapable nightmare. From Marvel to Pixar, 20th C...

Berlinale Review: Two Times João Liberada Explores the Limits of Representation

Amongst the debut features populating Berlinale’s new section called Perspectives, none presented so admirably fresh take on fiction and political historie...

Exclusive Trailer for Allan Moyle’s The Rubber Gun Resurrects Canadian Drug-Pushers

Canadian International Pictures, sister company to the great Arbelos Films, takes upon itself the noble mission of restoring and releasing lesser-seen films fr...

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office Review: An Illuminating Work of Cultural Archaeology

The first time I came across the name John C. Lilly I was––rather fittingly, for reasons that will become clearer in a minute––not exactly sober. Late in the n...

Nicole Kidman Uncovers a Dark Secret in First Trailer for Holland

Quite a long time in the works, with Errol Morris attached to direct as early as 2013, the thriller Holland (formerly known as Holland, Michigan) finally embar...

Ben Burtt on How Modern Hollywood Has Lost a Sensitivity for Sound, Lightsabers, and the Wilhelm Scream

It’s mid-July and I’m sitting in my living room, wondering what Ben Burtt, the sound designer behind some of the most beloved cultural artefacts of the 20th ce...

MUBI’s March 2025 Lineup Includes Films by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Quentin Dupieux, Joanna Hogg & More

MUBI has unveiled its lineup for next month's streaming offerings, featuring Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Assassin, Zhang Yimou's Shadow, Quentin Dupieux's Daaaaaali!...

Secret Mall Apartment Trailer: Jesse Eisenberg Presents a Strange, True Tale of Habitation

One of our favorite films to premiere at SXSW last year is now rolling out next month. Secret Mall Apartment retells the strange, true tale of a group of frien...

Berlinale Review: What Does That Nature Say to You is Hong Sangsoo’s Meet the Parents

The last time Hong Sangsoo failed to feature in a Berlinale program, Childish Gambino’s “This is America” was in the charts and Green Book was on its way t...

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

Disclosure Day Trailer: Steven Spielberg Returns to Extraterrestrial Exploration

A Major Restoration Arrives in Exclusive Trailer for Erich von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly

Exclusive Trailer for Bertrand Bonello-Scored Europe’s New Faces Covers a Troubled Continent

Reviews

The Voice of Hind Rajab Review: Kaouther Ben Hania Brings Questionable Palatability to the Genocide in Gaza

Avatar: Fire and Ash Review: James Cameron Gets His Hands Dirty

Ella McCay Review: A Living Legend’s Final Word on Hope and Forgiveness

Features

The Best 2026 Films We’ve Already Seen

The Best Undistributed Films of 2025

The Best Scores & Soundtracks of 2025

Interviews

“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

“We’re Terrible Esthetes”: Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley on Room Temperature, Home Haunts, and the Artist’s Life

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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