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Official Trailer; Contemporary, London-set 'Hamlet'; Directed by Aneil Karia; Starring Academy Award winner Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark, Joe Alwyn

Official Teaser A24's 'Backrooms'; From Writer and Director YouTuber Kane Parsons; Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell

Wow. Taylor Sheridan's IP is Grand; Official Trailer 'The Madison'; Starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell

Richard Linklater Just Made César Awards History — Best Director Win Stuns 2026 Ceremony

Very Interesting Director David Robert Mitchell’s ‘Flowervale Street’ Retitled ‘The End of Oak Street’; New film stars stars Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway; “Transported back in time to the prehistoric era”; Spielbergian

Watch: Gorillaz's 'The Mountain, The Moon Cave, The Sad God' Short

New Yorker: “The President’s Cake” Is a Neorealist Treasure from Iraq; First feature by Hasan Hadi, set in 1990, depicts the agonies of war and dictatorship as experienced by a schoolgirl in the course of a high-stakes day

Review: Berlinale 2026: German-Turkish Filmmaker İlker Çatak's Clever 'Yellow Letters'; Artists vs Politics

Béla Tarr, Poet-Laureate of Doom (1955–2026); Late Hungarian film-maker’s epic studies of apocalyptic gloom have never seemed more ravishing or more timely

‘You Have To Be Ready To See It’: Abel Ferrara And Catherine Breillat On Why Pasolini’s Salò Is A Gift That Keeps Giving; Pier Paolo Pasolini’s notorious film is now 50 years old, and its cavalcade of shocking cruelty and violence still leaves a stark impact on its viewers. Film-makers explain why Pasolini ‘was a saint to us’

Martin Scorsese Recalls Tender Rob Reiner Scene in ‘Wolf of Wall Street’: ‘Breaks my heart’

Source: Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’ Shot With IMAX Cameras; 11-Month Shoot Wraps in June 2026; $250M+ Budget; Two Films; Good Friday and Ascension Day Release Dates 2027

‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Review: Amanda Seyfried Is a Singing Female Christ Figure in Mona Fastvold’s Incredible Quasi-Musical About the Shaker Prophet; Team behind "The Brutalist" returns for another, possibly even better epic about someone coming to America and building a church

How Did They Miss This? 'The Testament of Ann Lee' Deserves Better

‘I Find It All A Bit Comforting’: Why 'Zodiac' Is My Feelgood Movie

Podcast: The B-Side Ep. 174: On Actor James Stewart (with Mitchell Beaupre); What made Stewart so relatable and endearing to millions, we marvel at his WWII service and how it affected his on-screen demeanor

Demise of Critical Film Writing: 'The Outsiders' Why Francis Ford Coppola’s Coming-Of-Age Drama Is Secretly Gay

Hollywood was Built On Movie Stardom. AI is Changing The Rules

The Happiest Man in Music; Global Creative Director of Apple Music Zane Lowe has made a career out of relentless positivity. Is there anything he doesn’t like?

Sphere’s ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Walks an Uneasy Line Between Cinematic Enchantment and A.I. Slop; The 4D mega-spectacle, while captivating, tests how far a national cultural treasure can be reshaped by technology before it loses its original spell

IP: The Paddington Playbook; What a heritage bear can teach today’s IP owners

Director Paul Schrader Slams ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ as “Sex Party Crazyland” Nonsense; What is more surprising is how thoroughly Schrader’s criticism seems to misunderstand what Stanley Kubrick was actually doing with his final film

Disney’s Original Tinker Bell, 96, Reveals Trait She Snuck Into the Film

Interview with Actor Crispin Hellion Glover and His New Film "No! YOU'RE WRONG, or: Spooky Action at a Distance"

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