Comedian John Early has been waiting for his film to be seen by audiences. Premiering at TIFF last fall, Early’s directorial debut is a sublime comedy that commits to simultaneously becoming a serious drama about a woman with a returned eating disorder. Maddie’s Secret, which Early also wrote and leads, plays like a 1980s TV […]
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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we discuss one of the greatest film directors to ever live: Steven Spielberg! Our B-Sides are 1941, Hook, Amistad, and The Adventures of Tintin. Our […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. The film opens on June 19. The films of Mark Jenkin ooze a hypnotic, seasick sensibility; to watch them is to be lulled by their restless jumps through time and space, their ability to convert his home turf of Cornwall into a […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. The film opens on June 19. You can’t accuse John Early of not committing. Through the majority of his acting career, the comedian has become a reliable avatar for a palpable, toxic, hilarious narcissism, playing characters oblivious to the world outside the […]
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show can be described in hundreds of ways. Over the last five decades, it’s become more than just a cult classic; it’s a cultural touchstone for people around the country, with midnight screenings popping up without warning while packing theaters. In New York, a Broadway show on Rocky Horror continues to […]
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Perhaps I’ll need to burn my cinephile card if I suggest that the Criterion Channel’s best addition next month—best addition all year?—is a TV series. But I let out an actual exhale upon reading that they’re adding all 17 episodes of Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner, which simultaneously boasts ’60s surrealism, spy story, structural experiment, and […]
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Perhaps I’ll need to burn my cinephile card if I suggest that the Criterion Channel’s best addition next month—best addition all year?—is a TV series. But I let out an actual exhale upon reading that they’re adding all 17 episodes of Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner, which simultaneously boasts ’60s surrealism, spy story, structural experiment, and […]
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There are some others making films like Mark Jenkin. His Bolex-shot, creaky-sounding cinema isn’t the greatest system shock to those who’ve attended (one might say endured) a festival’s experimental-shorts program. But nobody is making them at Mark Jenkin’s scale, nor equaling his level of ambition for duration or narrative structure; anybody with even a passing […]
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Comedy icons Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957) will be getting a well-deserved retrospective in NYC this summer. “Laurel & Hardy,” a two-week festival featuring more than 50 comedy classics, will run at Film Forum from Friday, July 10, through Thursday, July 23. The retrospective marks the 100th anniversary of their first film for producer Hal Roach and […]
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Being queer—especially in this rapidly regressive age—means becoming acquainted with a base level of fear for most of your life. It is something you learn early on: not only when you must discover who can be trusted with your survival, but whether they might betray that trust later. Violence takes so many forms that it […]
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