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The Film Stage Show Ep. 267 – Brawl in Cell Block 99

Today, Michael Snydel and I are joined by Dan Mecca in order to talk about the rough and tumble tour through hell that is Brawl in Cell Block 99, the newest film from writer/director S. Craig Zahler....

‘Thoroughbreds’ Trailer: A Dark Plan is Hatched in Sundance Hit

One of the most acclaimed films coming out of Sundance Film Festival earlier this year was Cory Finley's Thoroughbreds. The black comedy, starring Olivia Co...

Review: ‘Never Here’ is a Reality-Blurring Suspense Thriller

Miranda Fall (Mireille Enos) is a cataloger. Her art leads her on journeys following new subjects in order to understand who each is by what each does and posse...

NYFF Review: ‘Dragonfly Eyes’ Captures the Malleability of Postmodern Identity

The modern pervasiveness of surveillance technology causes an unfamiliar type of cognitive dissonance where their use is collectively recognized but an innate f...

NYFF Review: ‘The Venerable W.’ Examines the Roots of Modern Extremism

By Siddhant Adlakha When attempting to parse the root causes of religious extremism, a common argument in western discourse involves not only pointing to Islam...

Hamburg Review: ‘Cocote’ is a Drama of Visual Virtuosity and Tantalizing Promise

Fans of fierce, challenging indigenous cinema rejoice. It’s not every day that you see a film from and depicting the life in the Dominican Republic, let alone o...

San Sebastián Review: ‘Apostasy’ is a Restrained, Troubling Portrait of Rigid Religiosity

A central scene in Apostasy, the powerful debut from British director Daniel Kokotajlo, has a group of kids stage a re-enactment of King Solomon’s judgment, the...

‘Félicité’ Director Alain Gomis on Morality, Musicality, and Modernity

Set in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Félicité is the new film from Alain Gomis, a French director of Guinea-Bissauan and Senegalese descent....

Second Trailer for ‘Black Panther’ Finds Chadwick Boseman Protecting a Nation

In just a few weeks we'll see what a Taika Waititi-directed Marvel movie looks like, then a few months later, Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, Creed) will d...

BFI London Review: ‘Angels Wear White’ Shows a Devastating Reality

Let's think about the title to Vivian Qu's sophomore effort Angels Wear White because the meaning goes far beyond the words themselves. On the surface it's simp...

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Trailers

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Reviews

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Features

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Podcasts

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