Early Modern times were messy: Europe was finding its footing in rationalism, seeking independence from the centuries-long spiritual yoke of Catholicism and Pr...
How can you make a film about the fall of Yugoslavia? This is the question American documentarian Travis Wilkerson asks himself at the start of Through the Gra...
The spice must flow, and take over most theaters. While Denis Villeneuve's gargantuan-sized blockbuster will suck up much of the oxygen when it comes to discus...
It's now been over a month since I saw Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw the TV Glow and I haven't been able to shake the experience from my mind. The staggering, genre-...
Get ready for the summer of Shyamalan. Not only is M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller Trap, starring Josh Hartnett and the director's daughter Saleka Shyamalan,...
For the second in a row, the Berlinale jury has awarded the top prize of Golden Bear to a documentary. Before Mati Diop's Dahomey this year, Nicolas Philibert’...
Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Sarah G. Vincent to discuss Cord Jefferson's Best Picture-nominated di...
You’d expect the pivotal music cue in Philippe Lesage’s Who by Fire to be its namesake by Leonard Cohen, a beautiful and plaintive prayer of a song. But instea...
Reviewing No Other Land out of Berlinale, Rory O'Connor described the "disorienting and dispiriting landscape" into which it was premiering. Quite an understat...
Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis isn't this year's only epic around which a director has staked much of their finances to fulfill. After owning television sc...