The Film Stage

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. The Animal Kingdom (Thomas Cailley) In The Animal Kingdom, an Un Certain Regard-selected science-fiction romp from France, human-animal mutations are the new norm. Director Thomas Cailley begins things in media […]

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Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. 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 the best Chris – Chris Pine of course! Our B-Sides include Small Town Saturday Night, People Like Us, […]

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While Furiosa may have made more headlines coming out Cannes Film Festival this year, another actioner at the festival also had our attention. Soi Cheang’s Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, which brings together the epic cast of Louis Koo, Raymond Lam, Terrance Lau, Philip Ng, Tony Wu Tsz Tung, German Cheung, Richie Jen, Wong […]

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One of our favorite films coming out of Venice Film Festival last fall is finally getting a release this month. Director Ibrahim Nash’at spent a year closely embedded in the inner circle of the Taliban after the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, as they took back power and picked up the many (expensive) pieces […]

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Stanley Kubrick’s final film opened 25 years ago today to largely befuddled disinterest. Even in more recent years its champions (Martin Scorsese most notable among them) seemed quixotic claiming it would someday receive appreciation à la 2001, Barry Lyndon, or The Shining. 25 years hence, Eyes Wide Shut seems nearly incontestable as one of the […]

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John Woo may not be nearly so prolific as in his heyday, making two films in less than one year notable. “Notable” if, like me, you thought Silent Night was an absolute blast, even something of a reinvention for the man who’s done more than anybody to invent contemporary action cinema. That I am somewhat […]

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