The Film Stage

Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman’s Nuisance Bear is an expansion of their 2021 short film of the same name, which followed a polar bear on its annual migration through Churchill, Manitoba, the “Polar Bear Capital of the World.” Through...

While an alum of the Sundance Film Festival, having debuted his directorial debut Sorry to Bother You there in 2018, Boots Riley is heading to SXSW for his next feature. I Love Boosters, starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige,...

A few years after her Palme d’Or- and Oscar-winning drama Anatomy of a Fall, we now have the first details on Justine Triet’s next feature. Marking her English-language debut, Fonda will star Mia Goth, Andrew Scott, Frank Dillane (who recently...

In Casper Kelly’s viral short “Too Many Cooks,” a catchy ’90s sitcom intro repeats for 11 minutes with new characters added to the name roll each time. Eventually, a serial killer looming on the edge of the frame begins hacking...

New Sam Raimi films are few and far between these days, but when one appears, the debate as to whether he’s an inherently mean-spirited director invariably rears its head. His last pure horror movie, 2009’s Drag Me to Hell, is...

Picture this: it’s an overcast day in August 1972. You’re at a cocktail party at Duke Ellington’s townhouse in Harlem. As you awkwardly hold your glass of punch, you’re drowned in cacophonous conversation about art, politics, and society during one...

Prison, if nothing else, is a complex organism of interpersonal relationships and routines that develop over years. These are subject to interruption at any time—sometimes through violence, other times the daily friction of living and working in close quarters. Frank &...

For its relatable premise and tried-and-true structure, the road movie has a rich cinematic history. Its success has spawned a number of subgenres, including the screwball escort film where opposing personalities often work against each other to reach a destination....

Last summer, in the middle of The Bear’s fourth season, Will Poulter strolled into the show’s eponymous Chicago restaurant and placed the kitchen staff’s jaws on the floor with his handsomeness. This wasn’t exactly a new reaction for the tall British...

J.M. Harper’s Soul Patrol is a compelling account of the Vietnam War’s first Black special operations team, told 50 years later. An onslaught of mixed mediums, it is fascinatingly incomplete in certain moments, fully realized in others. The survivors reunite...