The Film Stage

If you are looking for a bit more bite in your fairy tale adaptations, a few weeks after Disney’s Snow White sputters to theaters, the Sundance and Berlinale selection The Ugly Stepsister is here to provide quite a jolt. Emilie...

Following its TIFF premiere last fall, Durga Chew-Bose’s Françoise Sagan adaptation Bonjour Tristesse recently traveled to New York, opening the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look. Now, Greenwich Entertainment has set a May 2 theatrical debut for the drama...

While Gummo, Trash Humpers, and Spring Breakers director Harmony Korine has always pushed the edge of cinema, his latest EDGLRD projects certainly bring him into a new echelon. Following his infrared crime thriller/nightmare AGGRO DR1FT, he’s back with Baby Invasion,...

The latest from Driveways and Fire Island director Andrew Ahn is The Wedding Banquet, a remake of the Ang Lee classic. The film brings together Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang, Kelly Marie Tran, Joan Chen, Han Gi-chan, and Youn Yuh-jung, with a script...

Two decades have been kind to Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, the only animated feature to debut in competition at Cannes and recent recipient of a 20th-anniversary 4K restoration. But Mamoru Oshii isn’t done with his opus, having recently stated,...

After co-directing 2015’s Anomalisa with Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson’s solo follow-up is an adaptation of the Donald E. Westlake’s novel Memory. Paul Cole (André Holland) is the eponymous actor––or so people tell him is his occupation after he wakes up...

After his long-awaited return with Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg quickly followed it up with The Shrouds, a darkly funny conspiracy thriller led by Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, and newly minted Oscar nominee Guy Pearce. Sideshow and Janus Films have...

I’ve still never seen The Wages of Fear (life moves fast and there’s books to read in-between all those films) but within days of Criterion’s 4K arriving at my door comes news that its little brother is next in line....

Pet Shop Days, written by Jack Irv, Olmo Schnabel, and Galen Core and directed by Schnabel in his debut, features a protagonist so unlikable, so emotionally ugly it’s almost to be admired. Alejandro (Darío Yazbek Bernal) is a rich Mexican...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk to movie stars! About a movie that people love and the hidden gems they’ve also made! Conor and I were lucky enough to speak with Amy Irving and Peter Riegert, on the occasion...