The Film Stage

Note: This review was originally published as part of our Sundance 2024 coverage. Ponyboi opens in theaters on June 25. Life for Ponyboi (River Gallo) has been no walk in the park. “I was born a little different,” he explains...

Sports are at their dramatic best when the improbable occurs. So are the movies that portray those implausible stories. From Rudy to Rookie of the Year, America loves a narrative that tracks the rise of the five-foot-nothings and, well, the...

Six years after their breakout feature The Climb, Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin have returned, with stars in tow, for Splitsville, a rom-com as unexpected as it his hilarious. After a Cannes premiere, it’ll now arrive in theaters on...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our Fantasia 2024 coverage. The G opens in theaters and on VOD on June 27. Ann Hunter (Dale Dickey) loves her husband. She’s simply never been the caregiver type. That’s what...

A late but exciting addition to the July movie calendar is Alex Ross Perry’s second release of the year. The three-hour essay film/documentary Videoheaven takes a comprehensive, staggering look at the history and near-demise of the video store solely through...

With Wes Anderson’s newest film The Phoenician Scheme now in theaters, he’s now reteamed with Montblanc for a new short film following last year’s collaboration, which was shot by Linus Sandgren. This time shot by Darius Khondji, who worked with...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we discuss Mike Leigh, one of our greatest living filmmakers....

To paraphrase Margaret O’Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis: Wasn’t I lucky to come of age in my favorite city? For one thing, my impressionable undergraduate years fell during J. Hoberman’s tenure as lead film critic of the Village...

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. The Annihilation of Fish (Charles Burnett) Essentially a lost film, legendary director Charles Burnett’s...

I’ve spent my offline hours producing The Jag, a new play that runs from June 21 to July 6 at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research. Even without some of my fingerprints, this makes a curiously cinema-centered creative team: directed...