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Welcome to The B-Side! 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 someone who is one of the most well-liked celebrities alive: Queen Latifah! Our guest today is KT from the great podcast “For […]

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The infamous cover of New York Magazine’s December 2022 issue declared that Hollywood is in the middle of a “Nepo Baby Boom,” but this is hardly restricted to the American film industry. Case in point is Christophe Honoré’s laugh-free inside-baseball satire Marcello Mio, a movie which could have been reverse-engineered from that article’s headline––“She Has […]

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Not long since Trap left us heralding the return of Josh Hartnett and dazzled by the music of Lady Raven, M. Night Shyamalan has set his next feature. Per Deadline, the project’s a Jake Gyllenhaal-led supernatural romantic thriller with unusual genesis: Shyamalan formulated its story with weepie titan Nicholas Sparks, who––working from “the same concept […]

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A sprawling, gripping drama that starts with the foundation of the state of Israel and the displacement of Palestinian families in Jaffa, then ends two years shy of the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, Cherien Dabis’ All That’s Left of You considers generational trauma on both an intimate and epic scale. Following more than seven […]

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Recently set to be preserved at the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as a film that represents important cultural, artistic and historic achievements in filmmaking, Zeinabu irene Davis’ Compensation premiered back at 1999 at the Atantla Film Festival and would go on to screen at Sundance, TIFF, and more, culminating in a […]

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Premiering two years ago at the Sundance Film Festival, Elijah Bynum’s Magazine Dreams was to be the start of a major year for Jonathan Majors, delivering a ferocious performance in the Taxi Driver-esque drama set in the world of bodybuilding. Picked up by Searchlight Pictures for a pretty penny, it was then shelved after assault […]

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Though once wildly, dizzyingly prolific, Johnnie To has only debuted three features in the last ten years, and recent interviews have left him sounding less-than-optimistic about a new project––be that the years-gestating Election 3 or otherwise. (No word in the near year since he was supposedly spotted filming something, about the strongest terms we’ve been […]

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In 2000 Meters to Andriivka, we are thrown headfirst into war. From a first-person point of view, we live with a brigade of Ukrainian soldiers as they make their way to liberate the village of Andriivka, which is occupied by the Russians. As the Ukrainians trudge through the forest (they have to avoid the mine-filled […]

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Ang Lee may be taking some time getting his next movie off the ground as his Bruce Lee biopic aims to finally start production this year, but first, one of his early classics is getting a modern update. The latest from Driveways and Fire Island director Andrew Ahn is The Wedding Banquet, which brings together Lily Gladstone, […]

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What would a feature-length director commentary look like when the film was never made? This is the slippery, fascinating conceit of Charlie Shackleton’s rather brilliant Zodiac Killer Project, which finds the director walking through his failed attempt to adapt Lyndon E. Lafferty’s book The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge into the first major documentary […]

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