The Film Stage

A familair presence on the indie film scene in Strawberry Mansion, Booger, The Heirloom, Measures for a Funeral, Honey Bunch, and more, Canadian actress and filmmaker Grace Glowicki’s second directorial feature Dead Lover will now get a release this spring...

Mario, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, and Street Fighter aren’t the only videogame adaptations hittting theaters this year. Genki Kawamura’s Exit 8, based on the hit game, premiered at Cannes Film Festival last year and went on to play at Toronto,...

The shortest month of the year has a handful of cinematic highlights, including numerous films that qualified for awards last year but are now getting official roll-outs. Other notable releases include a contender for the funniest film of 2026, the...

Gold is such an apt metaphor for greed. It’s shiny, it’s heavy, it’s superficial, and it’s obtained through someone’s hard labor. That labor is carried on the backs of the downtrodden and desperate while its benefactors maintain a comfortable distance....

Rock Springs works within a familiar genre framework––a family moves to a home in a town filled with strange people and is promptly haunted by spirits––to probe deeper ideas on the immigrant experience while exploring a Buddhist view of the...

After earning some of the finest acclaim of his career for May December, Todd Haynes was all set to embark on a 1930s, Los Angeles-set noir romance back in the summer of 2024. When Joaquin Phoenix got cold feet mere...

It’s now been over a year since the great David Lynch departed this Earth, and with his passing he left a number of unrealized projects. The major one was Unrecorded Night, a series set to be produced by Netflix but...

An exacting, well-articulated portrait of a Kosovan family in crisis as they attempt to make ends meet, Shame and Money confronts anxieties in a life drowned by the demands of capitalism. Crafted with a documentary-like realism and scripted with the...

There’s always been something sexy about the image of the cowboy, which has been praised as a portrait of good, old-fashioned masculinity as much as it’s been parodied. Queerness, of course, has expanded our idea of what a cowboy can/should...

A Hong Sangsoo Berlinale premiere is no surprising development, but the first details on his 34th feature, The Day She Returns, are particularly exciting. Not least that the title would seem to directly signal perhaps his single greatest film, The...