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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 seems its host is being threatened, it simply explodes its way out to find a […]

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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 Remember is one of them. He fakes loving it; “its helllllla good,” he says. Now […]

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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 Los Angeles on August 16, followed by a Max streaming debut on August 23, we’re […]

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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 seeking clarification on the death of her inventor father (Hernandez’s own, glimpsed through archival footage) […]

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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 for everyone, though. And it came for him fast. Unfortunately, they had already moved closer […]

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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 his horror landmark and features interviews with Jan Harlan, Katharina Kubrick, and art director Les […]

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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 23 theatrical debut in New York, Los Angeles, and Austin at Alamo Drafthouse cinemas and […]

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As the fall festival season continues to take shape, we now know when one of our most-anticipated films will arrive in North America. Film at Lincoln Center announced Steve McQueen’s Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan, will be the Closing Night selection of the 62nd New York Film Festival, making its North American premiere […]

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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 return to discuss a living legend with a big, new, ambitious project. Perhaps his most ambitious project yet! Our subject […]

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A certain type of cinephile weeb (hello) esteems maybe no post-New Wave Japanese director more highly than Shinji Sômai, but it’s the nature of such fandom that his brilliance––expertly plotted, emotionally precise films shot in some of the most incredible long takes (Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion should be the benchmark)––hadn’t quite gone westward. (Despite being a commercial […]

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