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The Film Stage Roundtable Ep. 25 – Liam Neeson and Cancel Culture

Welcome, one and all, to a new The Film Stage Show roundtable episode! Today, Michael Snydel, Bill Graham, and I discuss Liam Neeson's recent remarks of rac...

Berlin Review: ‘The Operative’ Sets Diane Kruger in John Le Carré-Style Potboiler

Where political shenanigans go, spy thrillers often follow. In Yuval Adler’s film, unspooling out of competition at the Berlinale, Iran’s recent nuclear weapons...

Slamdance Review: ‘Kifaru’ Takes a Familiar Look at Near-Extinction in a Kenyan Conservancy

In Kifaru, several workers at a conservancy in Kenya wonder how they can find hope within a hopeless situation. Their job is to take care of Sudan, a 45-year-ol...

Berlin Review: ‘The Golden Glove’ is a Grotesque, Calamitous Misfire for Fatih Akin

Fatih Akin’s latest movie is a fetid stain on the CV of a good filmmaker. Akin has made the true story of a repulsive, grotesque serial killer into a repulsive,...

Berlin Review: ‘Querência’ Takes a Docudrama Look at the Life of a Brazilian Cowboy

You don't have to look much further than the definition of the title to understand writer/director Helvécio Marins Jr.'s goals with Querência. Its English trans...

Berlin Review: Fourteen Considers the Complexities of Friendship with Deep Affectation

There is an uncomfortable, universal wound being picked at in Dan Sallitt's latest film, regardless of which of its characters the viewer relates to more. The ...

Review: ‘The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part’ is a Stale Sequel

The Lego Movie largely succeeded for two reasons: one, Lord & Miller’s gag-heavy comedic sensibility meshed well with Animal Logic’s kinetic, stop-motion-in...

Berlin Review: Lone Scherfig’s ‘The Kindness of Strangers’ Drowns in Mawkish Sentimentality

Where to begin with a film like The Kindness of Strangers? Well, Lone Scherfig’s new ensemble romance, which inexplicably opened the Berlin Film Festival this w...

New to Streaming: ‘Chungking Express,’ ‘High Flying Bird,’ ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ & More

All the newly streaming films of Netflix, Amazon, MUBI, and more....

NYC Weekend Watch: David O. Selznick, Jeff Goldblum, Altman & More

The best films screening in NYC this weekend....

News

Cinema Guild to Unveil Otar Iosseliani Restorations This Summer

The Criterion Collection Announces Complete Stanley Kubrick 4K Set

NYC Weekend Watch: Masahiro Shinoda, Budd Boetticher in 3D, Carlito’s Way & More

Trailers

First Trailer for Robert Eggers’ Werwulf Unleashes the Devil Within

Remake Trailer: Ross McElwee Crafts the Most Heartbreaking Documentary of 2026

The Samurai and the Prisoner Trailer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Mystery Epic Arrives This July

Reviews

Camp Review: An Absorbing, Dreamlike Journey of Finding Yourself

Jackass: Best and Last Review: Knoxville & Co. Return for One Last Encore

Romería Review: A Personal Tale of Intergenerational Dissonance

Features

New to Streaming: Blue Heron, I Love Boosters, Tuner, The Sheep Detectives & More

The Best Films of 2026 (So Far)

NYC Weekend Watch: Elaine May, Guy Maddin, Vincente Minnelli, Law of Desire & More

Interviews

“There’s No Incentive for a Filmmaker to Retire”: Alex Cox on Returning With Dead Souls

“Memory Is Not Something You Can Trust”: Carla Simón on Romería, Family Stories, and Antonioni

“There Are Always Fascists to Defeat”: John Waters on the Enduring Legacy of His Films and Never Getting Cancelled

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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