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I’ll admit: when this writer reviewed 28 Years Later all the way back in June 2025, he didn’t have knowledge of disgraced British personality Jimmy Saville, which made the shock ending of a blonde-wigged and tracksuit-wearing gang saving the day...

A festival with a true independent spirit, Slamdance Film Festival has recently found a new home in Los Angeles, where it will return next month. Running in-person from February 19 to 25, 2026, and virtually from February 24 to March...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. On Christmas Eve this year, I watched Gone with the Wind and Casablanca with my family, and...

On a special 2025 wrap-up podcast, The Film Stage co-founder and editor-in-chief Jordan Raup is joined by managing editor and Emulsion host Nick Newman and The B-Side co-host Conor O’Donnell to discuss our favorite films of the year. We also...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. 10. The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (Vincent Ward, 1988) It’s not common, once one has consumed a...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. My initial assessment of this year of cinema is one of disappointment. I have never felt more...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. I’ve been lucky to see so many movies over the last year, to speak with filmmakers, to...

Few films of late have better pitched themselves than Palestine 36, which assumes the form of a respectable historic drama—international co-funding, some notable actors to polish that process, and a sturdy, not-too-flashy visual palette—to detail Palestine’s troubled pre-Zionist history with...

Shortlisted as one of fifteen films vying for the Best Documentary Short Film at the 98th Academy Awards, perfectly a strangeness marks the first short film from Canadian filmmaker Alison McAlpine, director of the wondrous 2017 feature Cielo. Ahead of...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of Modern ArtA yearly highlight of New York’s repertory programming, To Save and Project begins with films by Michael Almereyda, Lino Brocka, Victor Fleming, Bertrand Tavernier, and more. Film...