Busan Film Festival to Honor Its Founder Kim Dong-ho with Korean Cinema Award
For this year’s Korean Cinema Award, the Busan International Film Festival will be honoring one of its own — the event’s founding OG, in fact. Kim Dong-ho, who established BIFF in 1996 and ran the event for its first 14 years, will receive the prize at the festival’s opening ceremony on Oct. 6. The award […]
NY Film Fest 2026 Currents Lineup: Laura Poitras ICE-Minneapolis Short
The New York Film Festival has announced the lineup for its Currents section, featuring films that expand the possibilities of the medium, including boundaries of narrative and form. The slate of 15 feature films and 28 short films has as its centerpiece the world premiere of Bardi, from filmmaker and photographer Tala Hadid, for which […]
Why Green Day Wanted to Be Background Characters in Their Own Movie
Nimrods isn’t a typical band movie. Although the project is being billed as “a Green Day comedy,” its three members, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool and Mike Dirnt, are not the main focus of the project; instead, the film is a coming-of-age road trip story about three buddies who drive across the country when they’re […]
McConaughey: ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days’ Pays Best ‘Mailbox Money’
Which of Matthew McConaughey‘s films would you guess pays him the highest residual checks of any film he’s done? Interstellar? The Wolf of Wall Street? Magic Mike? You already know the real answer — it’s in the headline, after all — but it’s still surprising that the answer is 2003’s How to Lose a Guy […]
‘I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming’ Review: A Queer Ukrainian Wartime Drama
A Ukrainian queer couple face challenges unimaginable for most Western LGBTQI+ folk in I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming, a nuanced, finely lined drama that premiered in Locarno’s main competition. Produced by Tom Tykwer and Uwe Schott, this represents a second feature collaboration, after Grand Jeté, for married couple Anna Melikova, a Ukrainian writer, and German […]
If Hollywood Is Dying, Why Are L.A.’s Cinemas Roaring Back?
Glendale’s historic Alex theater is back in the picture business. For 35 years, since Terminator 2: Judgment Day debuted in 1991, the venue — where Walt Disney liked to test his cartoons — hadn’t screened first-run films. Then the Alex’s artistic director, Miles Williams, invested $500,000 in time for its centennial last year so that it […]
The 7 Most Boring Movies According to Reddit
The Hollywood Reporter‘s writers have written many best-of lists over the years. You can learn about the best movies this century (so far), the best documentaries, the best horror movies, the best Christmas movies. Even the best Christmas-horror movies. But what about the most mind-numbingly boring movies of all time? The movies that you went […]
‘The State of Us’ Directors on Platforming Masculinity in Edinburgh
Ollie Gardner and Jake Harvey are not afraid to say they love each other. The two British filmmakers — about to make their feature-length debut with Edinburgh Film Festival’s competition title The State of Us, premiering Friday — are flipping the narrative on what it means to be a man and embracing the intimacy of male friendships. […]
‘Pretty Babies’ Director Tyler-Marie Evans on Real Women in Sex Work
Tyler-Marie Evans can hardly believe she’s here. The U.S. writer-director is charting her journey from growing up in a cult-like church in Texas to premiering her debut feature, tackling teen dreams and sex work, in competition at the Edinburgh Film Festival on Friday. “[It was] this merry-go-round of feeling like an insane person,” she laughs […]
Asia Argento Discusses Playing Racist, Locarno Award, Gia Carangi Doc
Italian actress, filmmaker and musician Asia Argento is about to take the big outdoor stage in Locarno in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. The 79th edition of the Locarno Film Festival will celebrate the creative with its Life Achievement Award on Thursday evening in the city’s Piazza Grande in front of around 8,000 people. While in Locarno, Argento is also presenting Jorge Thielen Armand’s […]