Werner Herzog needs no introduction. He has been one of cinema's most fascinating and deliberate risk-takers for over five decades of extraordinary cinema. The enlightenments he discovers through his pursuit of the "ecstatic truth" are often intense and absurd in...
The exhaustively extended awards season finally being over isn’t the only reason to celebrate this month. Led by my current frontrunner for the best film of 2026, there’s plenty of new releases to look forward to, also including a bold...
Last night, the Actor Awards (SAG-AFTRA) held their 32nd annual ceremony, honoring the best acting in film and television for 2025. For the fourth year in a row, the ceremony was streamed through Netflix. There were some heartfelt tributes and montages,...
As a Tunisian queer filmmaker, one must exercise particular care when addressing an issue that remains deeply taboo in society to this day. Yet this does not prevent Leyla Bouzid from boldly portraying the increasingly precarious reality faced by homosexual...
The Actor Awards (ACTOR), presented by SAG-AFTRA (and formerly known as the Screen Actors Guild Awards – SAG) have announced their winners for the best in film and television acting for 2025. Here are this year’s winners… OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY...
Crack jokes all you want about the concept of German comedy films, but they exists and are often quite good. Case in point: Florian Dietrich's comedy No Hit Wonder, which played at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this year and...
For Episode 481, Amy Kim, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, and Ben Langford join me for a jam-packed episode two weeks before the 98th Academy Awards. We discuss the fallout from the BAFTA Awards, including the John Davidson controversy, the seismic news of Paramount purchasing Warner Bros. Discovery, the Producers...
Most movies that go behind the scenes on a set to showcase the blood, sweat and tears that go into making movies treat filmmaking as a badge of honor. Whether it's a documentary -- see Mark Borchardt in American...
The film basically imagines what My Fair Lady would look like if it had teeth. The post ‘Heel’ Review: Jan Komasa’s Funny and Disturbing Thriller About the Fixing of a Bad Bloke appeared first on Slant Magazine.