Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars and movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Sometimes we are lucky enough to even speak with them about their work. And sometimes, they are both a movie star and a […]
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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. Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice) Eríce’s latest is the ultimate cinephile catnip: the triumphant return of a director known to only make masterpieces, a film filled with in-group references […]
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Keke Palmer and SZA throw it back in more ways than one in this breezy comedy.
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Seth Gordon’s film is largely, and awkwardly, beholden to the most banal of spy tropes.
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When news broke in August that iconic artist David Lynch was basically homebound with emphysema, you didn’t have to be a doctor to figure out the end was near. And sure enough, as 2025 continues to frontload it’s sheer shittiness […]
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With incomparable sadness we have learned that David Lynch, in his time perhaps the greatest living filmmaker, has died at 78. Few artists have ever contributed more to their chosen medium, which is of course to say nothing of Lynch’s achievements in painting, music, or really whatever else he ventured towards. The corpus he leaves […]
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After her break-out female empowerment portraits in the Cannes Un Certain Regard selected Papicha (2019) and Houria (2022), Franco-Algerian filmmaker Mounia Meddour is moving into WWII terrain with a currently untitled project loosely based on a play by Jean-Philippe Daguerre. Variety reports that Camille Razat, Elsa Zylberstein and Meddour muse Lyna Khoudri will topline the project (one top male lead will be announced prior to moving into production for May this year. Pablo Pauly (who add a bit part in The French Dispatch) also joins the project which is produced by Daï Daï Films’ Vanessa Djian. A Cannes 2026 showcase is not impossible.… Read the rest
Goddamn, this looks really, really fun. Osgood Perkins’ new film, The Monkey, arrives next month on February 21st, and with every new look sent out way we are getting more and more excited. The official trailer has arrived and we get a bit more of the story, and a look at more of the kills. They are going to be glorious. They are like… little Rube Goldberg machines, of death! When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy. Based on the Stephen King short story, and produced by James Wan (The Conjuring, Saw),…
The Criterion Collection’s recent announcement of its April 2025 slate stirred up controversy across social networks and the internet at large, due entirely to the eye-catching cover of Sean Baker’s Anora (2024), a tip of the hat to a pose captured in an image for Jess Franco’s Vampyros Lesbos (1971). Be that as it may, my personal reaction centered entirely around the forthcoming release of Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express (1994), a film that electrified me when I first saw it in the late 90s on videotape, and then again on DVD, and then again on a film print at the Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles a few years later. Featuring a “4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, both supervised and approved…
