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Eli Friedberg’s Top 10 First-Viewings of 2024
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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. By way of introduction, I think I said most of the important things last year, so I’ll...
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“The Hangover,” “Rumours” Announced For Ebertfest 2025
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Two comedies have been announced for this April's Eberfest.
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THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
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(Here at Hammer to Nail, we are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, Brad Cook takes a chance with...
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Sexual Misorientation: Hamaguchi Prepping Paris-Shoot ‘Our Apprenticeship’
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Back in May we had learned that Ryusuke Hamaguchi was revisiting with a feature film project that would bring us to Paris and it looks like we can now pencil this in as his next feature. titled Our Apprenticeship, with...
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The Criterion Collection’s April Lineup Includes Anora, Chungking Express, and Ugetsu on 4K
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Criterion’s starting 2025 with 4K on the mind: today brings news that April will bring Sean Baker’s Anora and a Blu-ray of Prince of Broadway alongside 4K releases for Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat (both the theatrical edition and black-and-white director’s cut),...
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WOLF MAN Review: Leigh Whannell’s Backwoods Howler Doesn’t Quite Hit The Mark
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A man struggling in a strained marriage strikes out into the woods with his wife and daughter on a mission to reclaim a family farm and perhaps repair his relationship, but instead finds himself tangling with a vicious, primordial –...
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‘Wolf Man’ Review: Leigh Whannell’s Reboot Tears a Somber Path Through Werewolf Lore
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Whannell’s film doesn’t convincingly reinvent the fundamentals of werewolf folklore. The post ‘Wolf Man’ Review: Leigh Whannell’s Reboot Tears a Somber Path Through Werewolf Lore appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Wolf Man Review: Leigh Whannell’s Effective Reboot Scares Up Hereditary Horrors
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“In early 1995, a hiker went missing in the remote mountains of central Oregon,” reads the prologue over a gorgeous opening shot: a still, wide frame looking down at a farm surrounded by dense forest and looming mountains, dark clouds...
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DAREDEVIL BORN AGAIN Trailer: Daredevil And Fisk Face Off Once Again
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Arguably the best series that Marvel has ever made for streaming was the original Daredevil show distributed by Netflix at the time. Matt Murdock is back in a new series and a new home over at Disney+ this March, Daredevil...
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Starz’s “The Couple Next Door” Stops Itself From Reaching Great Heights
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The core four actors feel like the only people not sleeping through these scenes. 
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