Is the sight of the human tongue really so shocking? Were 1996 audiences ducking in their seats à la L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat when Matthew Lillard kept jutting his out like a jackass in Scream? Judging from Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, we’re meant to react like so to the sight of […]
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Seven years after collaborating on The Plagiarists, writers James N. Kienitz and Robin Schavoir return with The Misconceived—another incisive, inventive movie about the anxieties faced by the never-quite-made-it creative class. Directed by Peter Parlow, that earlier film played with the tropes of found-footage horror to tell a story about untested urban liberalism and the dual […]
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We’re pleased to exclusively announce that Factory 25, the celebrated Brooklyn-based independent film distribution company, has acquired world rights to distribute writer/director Morgan Evans’ feature directorial debut Micro Budget. With a notable cast of comedians, including Bobby Moynihan, Chris Parnell, Maria Bamford, and Jon Gabrus, the mockumentary captures the disastrous making of an indie movie. […]
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Noah Segan’s The Only Living Pickpocket in New York is an ode to a past New York City and the films set there. John Turturro plays Harry, an old-school pickpocket who’s become out of step with the modern world around him. As a fourth-generation New Yorker, Segan’s roots in the city run deep, though we’ll […]
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Chicago-based filmmaker Michael Glover Smith has earned acclaim for his indie dramas, including Mercury in Retrograde and Rendezvous in Chicago. Spinning off his 2022 feature Relative, his latest film Hekla stars Elizabeth Stam as we witness a day in the bustling life of a Chicago actress. Ahead of a world premiere on March 6 at […]
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A pair of legends are uniting for a Berlinale 2026 premiere. Isabelle Huppert stars in the first narrative feature in quite some time from German director Ulrike Ottinger (Ticket of No Return, Freak Orlando). The Blood Countess, co-written by Ottinger and The Piano Teacher author Elfriede Jelinek, is inspired by the 16th-century Hungarian serial killer […]
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While the Super Bowl is no stranger to teasers for the major sequels of the year, one we didn’t expect to drop is the 2026 follow-up we’re most curious about. Consider our surprise when Netflix released the first one-minute teaser for David Fincher’s The Adventures of Cliff Booth, the Quentin Tarantino-scripted continuation of Once Upon […]
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Could a director be best-known for what’s hardly been seen in 30-plus years? Notwithstanding the superb, modernized Hamlet—itself in less-than-prime circulation until a forthcoming Janus Films rerelease—Michael Almereyda is often directly associated with his pitch-black 1994 vampire comedy Nadja. While help is no doubt provided by its association with David Lynch (who personally financed the […]
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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. Boys Go to Jupiter (Julian Glander) Boys Go to Jupiter, an animated feature directed and written by Pittsburgh-based 3D artist Julian Glander, is truly a product of its time. […]
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Harry Lighton’s Pillion was one of the highlights of last year’s Un Certain Regard at Cannes, garnering wide acclaim and a fair amount of titters for its frank sex scenes. Lighton’s feature debut, after the 2017 short Wren Boys, earned him the Best Screenplay award in the section. Adapted from the novel Box Hill by […]
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