The Film Stage

While the Super Bowl is no stranger to teasers for the major sequels of the year, one we didn’t expect to drop is the 2026 follow-up we’re most curious about. Consider our surprise when Netflix released the first one-minute teaser...

Could a director be best-known for what’s hardly been seen in 30-plus years? Notwithstanding the superb, modernized Hamlet—itself in less-than-prime circulation until a forthcoming Janus Films rerelease—Michael Almereyda is often directly associated with his pitch-black 1994 vampire comedy Nadja. While...

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. Boys Go to Jupiter (Julian Glander) Boys Go to Jupiter, an animated feature directed...

Harry Lighton’s Pillion was one of the highlights of last year’s Un Certain Regard at Cannes, garnering wide acclaim and a fair amount of titters for its frank sex scenes. Lighton’s feature debut, after the 2017 short Wren Boys, earned...

The new year is in full swing with its January doldrums making way for another February chock full of Oscar-qualifying films receiving their limited and/or platform releases nationwide. Sure, there are some wide releases too like another Scream sequel (February...

Forget misunderstood hacks and generational talents. There’s nothing quite like a consistent studio hand (with a solid 3- or 4-star batting average) who flies under the international radar for much of their career. Yoji Yamada was already approaching middle age...

A producer of the Zellner Brothers’ Sasquatch Sunset, David Harari has completed his directorial debut, the indie comedy Tooth Shop Fiasco, which will make its world premiere this Monday at the San Francisco Indie Festival. Starring Blaine Maye, Katie Folger,...

Taking on the art world is notoriously difficult—it’s already too ridiculous, and so the heightening of reality necessary for proper satire doesn’t work. There’s nowhere to go. But we need bold artists, ones that harness their inner Tobias Fünke and...

Working with her sister Anna—a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a developmental disability—director Liz Sargent’s sensitive drama Take Me Home is both witty and heartbreaking. It serves as an indictment of a system that would force a father to abandon his...

In a stray moment during Charlotte Zhang’s Tycoon, a young man says he stopped complaining to his landlord about the cockroaches invading his L.A. flat lest the whole building should be condemned—the same fate that’s felled countless others around the...