The Film Stage

“Politics is show business for ugly people.” — Roger Stone Canada seems boring to most, but I was recently trying to make it sound more interesting to an American friend by explaining the nation’s current nepo-baby predicament. The respective sons...

Nearly a decade after his last feature Loveless, and a great amount of personal and political strife in between as he dealt with severe COVID and living in exile, Andrey Zvyagintsev returned to Cannes with his latest drama. The Claude...

It was only a matter of time before Andrew Scott, the Irish actor best known for playing the “Hot Priest” on Fleabag, would set his sights on the highest achievements in his line of work. A well-respected stage and screen...

When you’re happily married for two decades and still have no children, the questions are unavoidable. From your loved ones. From strangers. Comments like “Oh, you’d be such good parents.” Or the fake absolutes that your life will somehow be...

While visiting family in Marrakesh for the summer, Myriam Achour (Mélissa Guers) and her cousin end up at a club where the former starts flirting with an attractive man. When the women mock him and his friends for acting rich...

When a bus of thirteen children on their way to summer camp is found empty on the side of the road with only the body of their teacher, the city at-large fears the worst. Even so, it proves no less...

The filmmaker credit isn’t simply attributed to Roshan Sethi. No, The Surgeon was written and directed by Roshan Sethi, MD. It’s a distinction he obviously earned, but also one that says you can trust the meticulously executed violence on-screen. Just...

In Jessica Love’s picture book Julián Is a Mermaid, young Julián is introduced while riding the train with his Abuela. Their afternoon adventure leads to her Brooklyn apartment where his love for mermaids takes control to excitedly rip down curtains...

There’s a longstanding rumor about former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich: in 1980, he allegedly served his ex-wife with divorce papers while she was on her hospital bed so he could immediately leave her for his mistress. Then, in...

Latif (Mahershala Ali) is a righteous man. A religious man. He sees himself in a holy war to cleanse the world of his people’s enemies by picking up where the law ends. Those who know about his work justifiably condemn...