Movies

It’s the sort of twist no screenwriter would dare invent: “Free Leonard Peltier,” a persuasively well-researched and often infuriating documentary about the American Indian Movement activist convicted nearly a half-century ago of killing two FBI agents, had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 27, 2025 — precisely one week after Joe Biden,

Twice selected for Variety’s index of the 500 most influential business leaders in the global media industry, Rikke Ennis, CEO of Copenhagen-based REinvent Studios, is one of the Nordic region’s most market- intuitive and forward-thinking heavyweights. At Göteborg’s TV Drama Vision and Nordic Film Market, she and her sales team will showcase high profile series including “Pressure

In the L.A. comedy-drama “Serious People,” remarkable naturalism and immense absurdity sit shoulder-to-shoulder. However, as notable as this tension may be, the novelty of the movie’s tonal dissonance eventually wears out, thanks to a story of swapped identities with no real end goal in mind. The film, from directors Pasqual Gutierrez and Ben Mullinkosson, begins

Amazon MGM Studios is bringing its festival circuit hit “Superboys of Malegaon” to theaters. The Indian film, which gained acclaim at the Toronto, London, Palm Springs and Red Sea fests in 2024, will see a multi-territory release across India, U.S., U.K., U.A.E., Australia and New Zealand before landing on Prime Video. Helmed by acclaimed filmmaker

Both an investigative journalism piece and a first-person perspective, “Life After” derives its strength from clashing these two elements together and finding its story in the tension between them. Filmmaker Reid Davenport sets out to find what happened to Elizabeth Bouvia, a disabled Californian woman who demanded the right to terminate her own life in

In “Sorry, Baby,” the defining moment of Agnes’ adult life happens off-camera, but it haunts nearly every other scene in the movie. A standout of the U.S. dramatic competition at Sundance, Eva Victor’s disarmingly funny, slow-to-unfold debut is less a film about sexual assault than it is a serious look at the process of rebuilding

It’s worth mourning the films we’ll never get to see: the unfunded epics, the unmarketable art films, perhaps even the unengaging streaming product. Filmmaker Charles Shackleton faced that grief when his thoroughly researched project, a documentary on the Zodiac killer case, got the plug pulled after years in development. But the director’s vision was simply

“Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears),” the semi-autobiographical feature debut of director Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, is a gentle slow-burn that occasionally becomes electric. A rural gay story that begins in a state of mourning and melancholy, it eventually takes on radiant form, with emotional complexities born out of characters walking around the truth, if only because euphemisms

The entertainment industry has already lost several notable figures in 2025. The film world was shaken by the death of “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks” director David Lynch, with tributes to the visionary filmmaker continuing for weeks. In music, Garth Hudson, the last remaining member of The Band, died in January, while Peter, Paul and

There is fun to be done! Warner Bros. Pictures Animation’s film adaptation of the Dr. Seuss book “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” will release on March 17, 2028 in IMAX. Jon M. Chu and Jill Culton are directing the film from writer Rob Lieber’s screenplay. J.J. Abrams produces through his Bad Robot Banner alongside Gregg

Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively could be headed for a trial on March 9, 2026, a judge said on Monday. The “It Ends With Us” co-stars are suing each other in federal court in New York. She sued him on Dec. 31 for sexual harassment and retaliation; he fired back two weeks later, accusing her

The human voice, as we all know, is as much of a musical instrument as any other instrument. But Jeff Buckley had a voice that was so breathtaking, so ethereally soaring, so reaching for the heavens in its virtuosity that it’s as if he’d been given a different instrument from everyone else in pop and

World leaders have rarely been captured with as much intimacy as in Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz’s “Prime Minister.” While the duo — whose credits include “Chasing Great” and “American Factory” respectively — are its ultimate architects, the shape the movie takes is largely owed to Clarke Gayford, partner and eventual husband to the doc’s

Quentin Tarantino is making equal space for being a dad and an iconic movie director, he told an audience at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday. Tarantino flew to Utah from Israel for a single conversation with Elvis Mitchell, the esteemed film critic, academic and host. Mitchell hosted a weekend of cinema talks on Park

Christopher Walken told The Wall Street Journal that his relationship with technology is nonexistent to the point that he doesn’t own a cell phone and only watches television via a satellite dish on the roof of his house. Walken had to have Apple send him DVD copies of “Severance” in order to watch his performance

If a live performance can be deemed hallowed ground, then Selena Quintanilla at the Houston Astrodome in February 1995, a month before her untimely death, certainly qualifies. From that night, the heartfelt opening verse of her anthem “Como La Flor” sounds like a prayer, before the bittersweet jubilation of the cumbia ballad begins. Footage of

Atlas International Film has taken international rights for “Nawi,” a drama about a 13-year-old Kenyan girl who yearns to go to high school but instead is going to be forced into an arranged marriage. The film was Kenya’s official entry for the best international feature film category of the Oscars. The film centers on Nawi,

Reese Witherspoon recently revealed on “The Graham Norton Show” (via Entertainment Weekly) that she got the shock of a lifetime when she was called for jury duty years after the release of 2001’s “Legally Blonde.” But it had nothing to do with the case itself. The Oscar winner found out that her fellow jurors actually

André Holland is bringing Black romance to Sundance with his latest independent film “Love, Brooklyn.” Directed by Rachael Abigail Holder (in her feature debut), it’s a charming story about a man named Roger (Holland), who is suffering from writers’ block while he attempts to pen a story about the changing landscape in Brooklyn. As the

Director Andrew Ahn was just 8 years old when he first watched Ang Lee’s 1993 “The Wedding Banquet,” and the queer romantic comedy about a gay Taiwanese American man who marries a Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card had a profound effect on the budding young filmmaker. “My mother

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed that 14 scientific and technical achievements, represented by 37 individual recipients, will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony, which has been rescheduled from Feb. 18 to April 29 amid the L.A. fires. The venue remains the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. This

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” leads the 7th annual Latino Entertainment Film Awards with an impressive 17 nominations, including best picture, director, and four acting nods for Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz and Zoe Saldaña. Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel “Dune: Part 2” follows with 10. The Latino Entertainment Journalists Association (LEJA), which celebrates the

In James Griffiths’ delightfully eccentric comedy “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” Charles (Tim Key) is the kind of sweet human being you instantly want all the good things for. It might be tough, for instance, to feel genuinely happy that someone who isn’t in urgent financial need had won a big-time lottery twice — unless

“I want to set the record straight on a couple of things, and that’s it.” So says Paul Reubens — better remembered by many viewers as offbeat children’s entertainer Pee-Wee Herman — at the outset of “Pee-Wee as Himself,” as he and director Matt Wolf tentatively lay out the terms of the documentary they’re making.

In the ever-shifting world of the biopic, a biopic can be many different things. It can be like a novel (if it covers someone’s entire life). It can have the more concentrated quality of a short story (if it’s set during one key period). On that score, you might say that “Peter Hujar’s Day” is

British consumers’ appetite for home entertainment reached new heights in 2024, with the sector surpassing £5.1 billion ($6.4 billion) for the first time, according to new data released by the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE). The milestone marks unprecedented growth across streaming, premium digital and physical formats. The wider U.K. screen industry, including cinema

As a documentary about politically incendiary subjects — including medical transition and the discrimination faced by transgender communities — Italian documentary “GEN_” is unconventionally persuasive. Directed by Gianluca Matarrese, the film follows several months in the life of the elderly Dr. Bini, a quirky, fast-talking fertility and hormone specialist in the twilight of his career,

France’s Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques, the body behind national film ceremony the César Awards, has departed X. The Academy made the announcement in a press release on Monday, having already deleted its account on the Elon Musk-owned platform. “The Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques has decided to end its presence on the

Andrew Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet,” a remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 rom-com starring Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone, will open this year’s BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival. The film, which is world premiering Monday night at Sundance Film Festival, will have its international debut on March 19 at London’s BFI Southbank with Ahn in

Action icon Jackie Chan has completed principal photography on “The Shadow’s Edge,” a high-stakes thriller that marks his second collaboration with Chinese helmer Larry Yang. The duo previously struck gold with “Ride On,” which dominated Asian box offices in 2023, becoming Japan’s highest-grossing Chinese import and landing among Malaysia’s top three Chinese releases of the