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Friday One Sheet: THE NIGHT IS DARK AND COLDER THAN THE DAY
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Here is a beautiful use of text and negative space, from IFFR, The International Film Festival Rotterdam in south Holland. Christina Friedrich's film may have a lengthy, and debatably cumbersome title, The Night Is Dark And Colder Than The Day,...
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Sundance 2025 Review: THE THINGS YOU KILL, A Professor On the Verge of a Mental Meltdown
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Ali (Ekin Koç), the professor-protagonist in Iranian-born, Canada-residing writer-director Alireza Khatami’s (Terrestrial Verses, Oblivion Verses) perception- and consciousness-bending film, The Things You Kill, suffers from a debilitating existential/spiritual crisis.   After returning to Turkey after more than a decade in...
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BLACK PANTHERS OF WWII: War Action Film in Theaters And On Demand Today
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As WWII reaches its turning point, the 761st Tank Battalion, a majority-African American unit known as the Black Panthers, must fight to stop Germany’s advance during the Battle of the Bulge. The fate of the free world is in their...
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Sundance 2025 Review: OMAHA, Poignant Character- and Performance-Driven Family Drama
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For the disheveled, unnamed father (John Magaro, September 5, Past Lives, First Cow) in first-time feature-length director Cole Webley and writer Robert Machoian’s (The Killing of Two Lovers) poignant family drama, Omaha, a new dawn brings a new, ominous day....
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Interview: Katla Sólnes – Eruption / 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
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We had the chance to speak to a small sampling of this year’s Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellows and first up was a filmmaker from Iceland and a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA film program in Katla Sólnes. After completed a...
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Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Makeup & Hairstyling
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Monstro Elisasue will take one more blood-spewing bow here. The post Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Makeup & Hairstyling appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Exclusive: Yorgos Lanthimos Plans Assassin Thriller Fatale
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Though he recently shot Bugonia and has long been attached to adapt perpetual subway read My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Yorgos Lanthimos has kept at least one other project deep in the background: from trusted sources we’ve confirmed he’ll...
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Bill Morrison on His Oscar-Nominated Short Incident and the Systemic Problems of Policing
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At the beginning of my review of The Village Detective: A Song Cycle, I wrote: “It is hard to overstate how important Bill Morrison’s work is to the language and history of cinema.” That was nearly four years ago, and...
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Posterized February 2025: Armand, Universal Language, The Monkey & More
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2025 is in full swing and a majority of America is probably looking for a means of escape from the literal and figurative flames engulfing their nation. A new entry in the “Zachary Levi only gets kids movies now” canon...
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New to Streaming: All We Imagine as Light, Matt and Mara, Suze, Jazzy & More
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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia) Following up her enigmatic, beautiful debut A...
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