The Film Stage

New to Streaming: Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, Road House, Anselm, Dad & Step-Dad & 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. After Blue (Bertrand Mandico) In the post-apocalyptic nightmare of After Blue, humanity—or what’s left of...
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Dev Patel’s Out for Revenge In New Trailer for Directorial Debut Monkey Man
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After nearly two decades of work in front of the camera, Dev Patel has crafted his directorial debut with the actioner Monkey Man. The Jordan Peele-produced feature, from Patel’s own story and screenplay he collaborated on with Paul Angunawela and...
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The Cronenberg Legacy Continues with Trailer for Caitlin Cronenberg’s Debut Humane
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When your surname’s a noun, adjective, and verb it behooves one to keep up the family legacy. As Brandon Cronenberg continued his feature-filmmaking career with last year’s Infinity Pool, Caitlin Cronenberg is staking a similar path with the dystopian satire...
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Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Diving into Dune, Oscar Nights, Kubrick, Blaxploitation, Akerman & More
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We are somehow now into the spring season, and while cinemas have been a tad dull (minus a few gems like Love Lies Bleeding, Drive-Away Dolls, and Dune: Part Two), noteworthy new books have arrived at a frantic pace. Here...
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The B-Side – Don Cheadle (with Mitchell Beaupre)
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Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we have a conversation about what...
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Chime Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Mid-Length Chiller Doesn’t Stay Long But Leaves Its Mark
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How do you even start to write about Chime, a film that keeps secrets guarded and lives off the shocks of its knife-edge turns? It’s safe to say the director is Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It’s also safe to say Chime is...
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In a Violent Nature Trailer: If Béla Tarr Made a Horror Slasher, It Would Look Like This
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What new perspective can one bring to the horror genre? With his directorial debut, Chris Nash answers this question with a resoundingly brutal and formally fascinating answer. Primarily following a murderer’s steps and slashes through his travels terrorizing those near...
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Serpent’s Path Remake Gets New Images and First Synopsis; Mathieu Amalric Confirmed to Star
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Update: the first poster for and a new image from Serpent’s Path are below, courtesy Cinefil, which lists the French release date as June 14. Sounds like a Cannes premiere to us! Few directors loom over 2024 like Kiyoshi Kurosawa,...
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Arnaud Desplechin Secures Léa Seydoux, Jason Schwartzman, John Turturro, and Golshifteh Farahani for The Thing That Hurts
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Though we’re likely just two months from Arnaud Desplechin’s next feature Spectateurs! (exclamation point his, but really mine as well) he’s already mobilized an enviable team for the next-next project. Ecran Total reports Léa Seydoux (his collaborator on Deception and...
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“Everybody Knows Something is Wrong”: Free Time Director Ryan Martin Brown on Finding Comedy in the Great Resignation
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Few films capture the trials and tribulations of twenty-something waywardness rooted in economic realities of today so eloquently and humorously as Ryan Martin Brown’s feature debut Free Time, as I noted in my March preview. Led by Colin Burgess in a...
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