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The recent Planet of the Apes prequel trilogy fizzled out by its third installment, as any form of social allegory it carried over from the original franchise had all but disappeared, with Matt Reeves’ War completing the saga’s slow transition...

It was just a few weeks ago we reported S. Craig Zahler had two potential features lined up, one was of his long-in-the-works script for The Big Stone Grid, which Michael Mann was once attached to. The other was an...

After helming one of the great directorial debuts of the decade thus far with 2021’s A Night of Knowing Nothing, director Payal Kapadia is stepping up in a big way for her follow-up. All We Imagine as Light will premiere...

With over six decades of an illustrious filmmaking career, Marco Bellocchio’s latest feature, Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara, will be coming U.S. theaters later this month from Cohen Media Group. A story once in the hands of Steven Spielberg...

After a contentious fall-festival run where people either had to declare Aggro Dr1ft the future of cinema or an abject embarrassment––I propose it’s sufficient to think “this looks neat” and find yourself chortling across 80 fleet-enough minutes––Korine’s EDGLRD is migrating from initial...

While we eagerly await Lena Dunham’s next full-on creative venture, she’s made the rare excursion into a lead role not written and directed by herself. Paired with Stephen Fry, she stars in Treasure, a road-trip dramedy from German filmmaker Julia...

Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Scott Nye to discuss Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by...

After an eight-year gap between Maps to the Stars and Crimes of the Future, thankfully the wait for the next film from David Cronenberg isn’t nearly as long. In fact, The Shrouds will premiere this month at Cannes Film Festival....

Returning with one of her most acclaimed films in years, Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border premiered at Venice Film Festival last fall where it picked up a Special Jury Prize. Now, the harrowing, deeply humanistic account of the migrant journey between...

In a rather surprising turn of events, after Cannes skipped on premiering Emmanuelle––Audrey Diwan’s follow-up to her Golden Lion-winning Happening––the film won’t be at Venice, Telluride, or TIFF either as the 72nd San Sebastian Festival announced it will world premiere...