The Film Stage

The parasitic creature at the center of The Adams Family’s Hell Hole (comprising John Adams and Toby Poser as directors/co-writers/stars, with daughter Lulu joining them on screenwriting duos while Zelda sits this one out) isn’t messing around. The second it...

While trying to chat up classmate Madi (Mahaela Park) on AIM, Chris (Izaac Wang) skims her MySpace for an “in”. Then, beneath all the Paramore pictures and low-res GIFs is a list of her favorite movies. Oh, A Walk to...

Premiering at last year’s Tribeca Festival where it picked up Best Screenplay and Best Performance, Shelly Yo’s directorial debut Smoking Tigers is a nuanced coming-of-age tale starring Ji-young Yoo (Expats, Freaky Tales). Now set for a theatrical release beginning in...

In March I had the fortune to see a rough cut of Invention, a new film by Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme, The American Sector) that toes the documentary-fiction boundary more nimbly than most: it stars Callie Hernandez as a woman...

Ann Hunter (Dale Dickey) loves her husband. She’s simply never been the caregiver type. That’s what drew him to her in the first place––leaving his wife to be with someone more his speed in their ruthless, take-no-prisoners attitude. Age comes...

On what would’ve been Stanley Kubrick’s 96th birthday, his estate’s afforded us a gift: streaming for free is Shine On – The Forgotten Shining Location, a Paul King-directed and Michael Sheen-narrated documentary that looks at the final surviving set from...

Likely the world doesn’t have enough neon-tinged, French-Belgian neo-noirs, making welcome the arrival of The Other Laurens. Claude Schmitz’s 2023 Directors’ Fortnight premiere has been acquired by Yellow Veil Pictures for a U.S. release, and ahead of the film’s August...

Six years after Vox Lux, Brady Corbet is finally returning with his next feature The Brutalist. Led by Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Isaach De Bankolé, and Alessandro Nivola, it’s shaping up to...

Wei Shujun’s detective noir Only the River Flows (based on a story of the same name by Chinese author Yu Hua) is set in a small town along a river in China’s Jiangdong province where it seems the sun never...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA retrospective of Mexican popular cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s is underway. Film ForumA career-spanning Jean-Pierre Melville retrospective has begun; restorations of Ann Hui’s July Rhapsody (watch our...