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For Wildwood, the Puppet Department led by Oliver Jones and Rapid Prototype Department headed by Brian McLean represent two complementary sides of LAIKA’s highly specialized stop-motion process. Jones has been at Laika since its early years beginning with 2009’s Coraline...

After co-directing Nunchaku (2011), Clever (2015) and docu The Champion of the World (2019) with Guillermo Madeiro, Uruguayan filmmaker Federico Borgia makes his solo directorial debut with the dark comedy Prince (2026), which will have its world premiere at the...

Destroy Everything You Touch: Abraham & Szor Explore the Cogs of the Palestinian Genocide Investigative journalists and documentarians Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham follow up their Academy Award winning 2024 debut No Other Land with an exploration of the ongoing...

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything. Tom Cruise plays Digger Rockwell. Kevin Jagernauth and I had the chance to review Alejandro...

Three features in, Arthur Harari might be one of those filmmakers whose career resists easy categorization. Beginning with Dark Inclusion (2015), he followed it with the almost unbelievable true story of Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle, and now, with...

Kristen Stewart, Vicky Krieps, Niels Schneider, Riley Keough, Wagner Moura and German cinema legend Barbara Sukowa, best known for her landmark collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Margarethe von Trotta are among the alluring players that will step into the...

The Catcher in the Sty: Oppenheim Skewers Hack Journalist It’s perhaps fortuitous for Lance Oppenheim’s narrative debut Primetime, which charts the brief but meteoric run of Chris Hansen’s exploitative hit television series To Catch a Predator in 2006, premieres and...

Strictly Soft Gloom: Wladyka’s Bereft Bliss Puts Spotlight on Rinko Kikuchi Healing comes in baby steps — and dance steps in Josef Kubota Wladyka’s warm and rebellious third feature film outing. Conjoining the absurd with reality-check seriousness, like a trendy...

Close Encounters Of The Biker Gang Kind: The Zellners’ Alien Comedy Probes For Laughs If you tell a joke and it doesn’t land, telling it even louder won’t make it funnier. It’s a bit of advice that sibling filmmakers David...

Not Worth The Subscription: Pechman’s Debut Flips Through The Familiar Pages Of Coming-Of-Age Stories Since the dawn of the Gutenberg press, the literary world has been plagued with hucksters, hypesters, dilletantes, gatekeepers, and wannabees. But that has never diminished the...