The Film Stage

For a career as diverse, singular, and influential as Martin Scorsese’s, the task of summarizing it in even five hours is a mammoth task, making director Rebecca Miller and editor David Bartner’s Mr. Scorsese such a vital, impressive documentary. Across...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we talk about someone who played Bond, James Bond, and...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage under the title Middletown. Teenage Wasteland opens in theaters on November 26. In 1991, Middletown High School teacher Fred Isseks started an elective class that every student...

With just five features to his name (four of which premiered at Cannes), writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho has swiftly, firmly established himself as a vital figure of Brazilian cinema. His latest, The Secret Agent, tells the story of a former...

After making a splash with Emily the Criminal, John Patton Ford has followed it up with a new take on the British dark comedy classic Kind Hearts and Coronets. How to Make a Killing, formerly known as Huntington, stars Glen...

Winner of the Silver Lion at Venice Film Festival and Tunisia’s Oscar entry, Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab has been devastating audiences on the festival circuit since its premiere. Recently picked up by WILLA, ahead of a...

Following up last year’s acclaimed drama The Brutalist, Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet returned this year with The Testament of Ann Lee, this time with the former directing and the latter co-writing. Thanks to the press tour, we’ve now received a few...

Most filmmakers see piracy as a scourge on their livelihood. Abel Ferrara has what one might call a more pluralistic mindset: “The only thing you need to see them is the internet. Go find the torrents. That’s my big distributor.”...

One of the many special things in Train Dreams, directed by Clint Bentley, is the production design. Nearly every element of each setting feels like it was just sitting there, waiting to be captured. Of course, this is not the...

World premiering in the Centrepiece Section at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Johnny Ma’s comedic drama The Mother and the Bear stars Kim Ho-jung, Won-Jae Lee, Jonathn Kim, and Amara Pedroso in a tale of a mother meddling in...