In her mosque’s perfect world, Fatima (Nadia Melliti) is on the right path. A good family. A tight-knit group of protective and loyal friends. A boyfriend ready to propose. A devout faith in Islam. In many ways, this teen is doing better on the wife checklist than her older sisters (besides kitchen skills). And maybe […]
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After the May movie season proved a paradigm-shifting testament to what truly attracts a large portion of the potential audience, we don’t expect such revelations this month. However, June has plenty of worthwhile options to seek out in theaters, from the return of the blockbuster maestro to favorites from Cannes, Sundance, TIFF, and beyond. 17. […]
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After spending much of the last decade in the world of Godzilla and Kong, Adam Wingard is getting back to his genre roots. His action horror feature Onslaught, which stars Adria Arjona, Dan Stevens, Alex Pereira, Michael Biehn, Drew Starkey, Rebecca Hall, Eric Wareheim, and Reginald VelJohnson, will get a release on September 4. A24 […]
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Despite waiting 19 years between the Jean-Luc Godard-produced Inside/Out and 2016’s Gavagai, then another decade until his subsequent project, Rob Tregenza is on a creative spree. After our extensive, career-spanning conversation helped fuel the creation of his fifth feature The Fishing Place—a remarkable project that boasted arguably last year’s best cinematography, no less by the […]
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Following Under the Silver Lake, David Robert Mitchell is finally back in the director’s chair, this time for a large-scale adventure feature for a major studio. His WB-backed, J.J. Abrams-produced feature The End of Oak Street (previously titled Flowervale Street) stars Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor. Ahead of an August 14 release in IMAX and […]
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Following up Happy as Lazzaro and La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher is now shooting her next feature Three Incestuous Sisters, which brings together the major ensemble of Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley, Josh O’Connor, Isabella Rossellini, Alba Rohrwacher, and Mick Jagger. Based on The Time Traveler’s Wife author Audrey Niffenegger’s 2005 novel, the script was written by Ottessa Moshfegh […]
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“Do you know where my friend is?” “In prison. All strangers go to prison.” This brief exchange, in––of all things––Robert Siodmak’s 1944 adventure programmer Cobra Woman is all too applicable to contemporary American life. Cobra Island is ruled by a high priestess, Naja (Maria Montez), who has bent all other forms of governance to her […]
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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. Dead Man’s Wire (Gus Van Sant) Gus Van Sant returns with Dead Man’s Wire, a movie shot in the same late-70s hues as Kelly Reichardt’s recent gem The Mastermind, and likewise […]
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In a summer movie season severely lacking major comedies, David Wain and Ken Marino are here to save the day. Their latest collaboration, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, brings together Zoey Deutch, Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Ben Wang, Joe Lo Truglio, and Sabrina Impacciatore. Ahead of a July 10 release from […]
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After getting much buzz on the festival circuit last year, the first-ever stop-motion feature film produced in Mexico is coming soon. Directed by Arturo Ambriz and Roy Ambriz, who worked under Guillermo del Toro, the fantasy tale I Am Frankelda will now arrive on Netflix beginning June 12. Ahead of the release, the new trailer […]
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