Katie Lee Biegel Interview: Windows on the World Doc After The Kitchen
When Katie Lee Biegel first encountered the nonfiction book about Windows on the World that would inspire the CNN documentary short Top of the World, she was still co-hosting Food Network‘s The Kitchen, which came to an end last year after its 40-season run. Chef Marc Murphy, who had worked at the restaurant atop the […]
When Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock First Made Magic: Flashback
A sequel is brewing for Practical Magic despite the original seeming a bit cursed when it launched 28 years ago. After making his feature directorial debut with 1997’s Addicted to Love, Griffin Dunne — whose acting credits include An American Werewolf in London — was hired to direct Warner Bros.’ adaptation of Alice Hoffman’s 1995 […]
‘Alpha Gang’ Review: Cate Blanchett, Dave Bautista in Sci-Fi Comedy
Watching Alpha Gang, the new sci-fi comedy from Sasquatch Sunset filmmakers David and Nathan Zellner, it is very easy to imagine what a thrill it must have been to cook up the look of the thing. The leads — a small squadron of aliens who’ve infiltrated our planet — are decked out in the studded […]
Laura Poitras on ICE Documentary ‘They’re Here’: “What’s Happening in the United States Is a Nightmare”
Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras spoke bluntly at the Venice Film Festival Monday about the motivations behind her latest project, They’re Here, a 25-minute documentary that viscerally chronicles the Minneapolis resistance movement to ICE’s paramilitary occupation last year. “We believed in a sense of urgency in documenting this,” Poitras said of the film origins. “What we’re seeing […]
Jordan Firstman and Diego Luna Among San Sebastian’s Film Talks Lineup
This year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival has unveiled a slew of top talent for its Film Talks slate. Among the high-profile names reflecting on their creative processes and films in a sit-down discussion will be San Sebastian jury president Ira Sachs, Club Kid director-star Jordan Firstman and Josephine‘s Beth de Araújo. Filmmaker and Andor […]
Sabu’s New Action-Comedy Took 20 Years and 4 Countries to Make
Arrested Memory, the latest slyly soulful genre farce from Japanese indie maverick Sabu, was conceived almost 20 years ago and was nearly made as a local production in Germany, France, South Korea and Japan before it finally landed in Taiwan as a Chinese-language action-comedy. “Looking back, I feel that there is a right time for […]
Venice 2026 Film ‘Ground Floor’ Is a Political Parable on Apathy: Clip
Franz Kafka and Don Quixote would feel right at home watching Ground Floor (Földszint), the new film from Hungarian auteur Gábor Reisz. But former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán would very likely not be amused. Back in 2023, Reisz’s Explanation for Everything, a dramatic look at the culture wars, won the best film award in […]
‘Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff’ Review: Nanette Burstein Doc
If Carl Sagan‘s landmark PBS docuseries Cosmos offered a pleasingly populist point of entry for viewers curious about our place in the universe, a gateway to more rigorous exploration, Nanette Burstein’s Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff offers a pleasingly populist point of entry for audiences curious about Carl Sagan, leaving more rigorous […]
Susan Sarandon Has Had ‘Movies Taken Away’ Over Support of Palestine
Susan Sarandon says she’s lost out on movie roles due to her support of Palestine. At the Venice Film Festival on Sunday, Sarandon was asked if she thinks that the “mood [is] changing” in Hollywood as it pertains to the conflict in Gaza. “I think that the narrative has completely changed,” she responded, according to […]
‘La Bola Negra’ Hits Telluride: ‘Let’s Make the Gayest War Movie Ever’
It was hard for La Bola Negra to make much noise over the whole of Cannes, if only because the gay Spanish epic did not premiere until the very end of the film festival — at which point, it promptly emerged as one of its clear breakouts. Directed by creative (and, previously life) partners Javier […]