There’s podcasts about movies (hello) and there are movies about podcasts. A podcast helping create a movie that is not itself about the podcast, but reflects its worldviews and the sense of humor that has become a kind of lingua franca among people in their 20s and 30s: that is novel. Thus: Chunks. If you’re […]
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While Maika Monroe is currently shooting a sequel to her breakout feature with They Follow, she can next be seen in a horror film of the gothic variety. Sanctuary director Zachary Wigon brought Victorian Psycho to Cannes earlier this year, and it will now arrive on September 25. Ahead of the release from Bleecker Street, the […]
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A love story unlike any this year, Alex Huston Fischer & Eleanor Wilson’s Wicker tells a fable in which a woman (Olivia Colman) commissions a wicker husband (Alexander Skarsgård) to be made by the local basketmaker (Peter Dinklage). Also starring Elizabeth Debicki and shot by Lol Crawley (The Brutalist), the film will now get a […]
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One of the breakouts of the Sundance Film Festival this year, where it picked up the U.S. Dramatic Directing award, Josef Kubota Wladyka’s stylish and moving Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! is coming this fall. Ahead of a September 25 release, Sony Pictures Classics has now debuted the first trailer and poster for the film starring […]
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More than reclaiming the zombie motif from the knee-jerk response that Night of the Living Dead inhibited, Maya Annik Bedward’s Black Zombie is a reclamation of Vodou from the colonial fear-mongering that used it to demonize Black people the world over. Because it’s 2026 and Haitians are still cautious to admit their connection to the […]
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Let’s risk hyperbole and suggest that 2026’s buzziest documentary about an avant-garde filmmaker is Barbara Forever. Brydie O’Connor’s study of Barbara Hammer received the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award upon its premiere at Sundance, just thereafter earned Berlinale’s Teddy Award for Best Documentary, and claims Kristen Stewart and Christine Vachon among its executive producers. That sort […]
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To the public, Anthony Bourdain was a carefully constructed persona: the fine-dining chef who waxed poetic about the joys of “regular” food and traveled to far-flung locales that made him want to throttle Henry Kissinger on shows like Parts Unknown. He would be the first to admit he wasn’t perfect, cataloging his faults in bestsellers […]
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Marking his first feature in 14 years (and first original in 17), Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth! has been confirmed to world premiere as the Centerpiece selection of the 64th New York Film Festival, screening at the Alice Tully Hall on Friday, October 2, with Gilroy, Pedro Pascal, and additional members of the cast in attendance. This […]
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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 the great Michael Mann! Our B-Sides are The Keep, Public Enemies, Blackhat, and Ferrari. Our guest is the iconic Blake Howard of One […]
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A friend recently quipped that Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day was “Mysterious Skin for straight people.” Joking aside, it’s an apt comparison beyond the whole alien-trauma thing: both Spielberg and queer punk iconoclast Gregg Araki share a fascination for characters driven by their search for connection and fulfillment in broken homes and fractured societies. And though their […]
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