The awards season is chock full of the same anecdotes being passed around with each interview, but give a group of directors a few hours, and more interesti...
Considering the breadth of films that arrive at the Toronto International Film Festival, a few gems can get lost in the shuffle. One to highlight as it open...
The most expensive Soviet film in history has been stunningly restored. Sergey Bondarchuk's seven-hour-plus epic War and Peace, of course adapting Leo Tolst...
Snakes have long been fodder for cinematic nightmares, but combine them with oppressive Christian conservatism and you have an even more harrowing scenario. Thi...
Everyone knows that one person from high school who is still living vicariously through the memories of a better past, perpetually talking about how they are “a...
Before we unveil our favorites of Sundance Film Festival 2019, the juries and audiences have selected their 28 feature filmmaking picks from 121 total films...
From Escape from Alcatraz to Cool Hand Luke to The Shawshank Redemption, cinema is rich with not only prison films focused on the plight of the prisoner, but a...
A crowdpleaser down to its bones, Fighting with My Family shows the importance of bringing an entertaining perspective to a true story. This tale of a British u...
The director with the most insightful eye on contemporary China, Jia Zhangke is returning this spring with a new epic Ash Is Purest White. Following Zhao Ta...
Jordan Raup is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Film Stage and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. Track his obsessive film-watching on Letterboxd.
