NewFest, New York’s leading queer film and media organization, has announced the full lineup for the 38th edition of its annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival, featuring La Bola Negra, Club Kid, ...

When the apocalypse strikes, someone will be in a worse situation than you. This could only be a small solace while virus-infested hordes of acid-spitting, tentacle waving monsters skulk around ...

Misty Green is a mess. Let’s start with the titular character. Misty Green (Rosalind Eleazar, Slow Horses) is an Emmy-winning actress who showed strong early promise but has since fallen on hard ...

The Mill Valley Film Festival has added the West Coast premiere of NAZA, the new documentary film directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by The Guardian and ...

After its rousing world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last week, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced today that Apple Original Films’ Being Heumann will close the ...

One night long ago in Harlem, boundary-pushing filmmaker William Greaves gathered as many surviving luminaries he could find from what became known as “The Harlem Renaissance.” He filmed them for ...

Famously prickly author Patricia Highsmith gets the cinematic treatment turned back on herself courtesy of a new film by Anton Corbijn (A Most Wanted Man). Dame Helen Mirren delivers a vicious ...

Every year, when I return to Telluride, the first thing I look for isn’t a movie. It’s Ajax Peak. Standing on Colorado Avenue in the early morning hours and looking east toward the ...

Remember Rinko Kikuchi? The Oscar nominee for 2007’s Babel is back on the big screen with Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! In this personal, inventive, entertaining film, the grown-up star plays ...

Karen (Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried, not reprising the role of Karen Smith from Mean Girls) has not led the life she thought she would lead. After getting her college degree and getting ...

On the opening night of the 2026 Telluride Film Festival, writer-director Andrew Haigh received the coveted Silver Medallion award, an honor that’s given to artists for their body of work, ...

As an actor looking to direct your first feature, you could do a lot worse than choosing a family melodrama. The genre requires committed work from the acting ensemble, which allows the director ...