The American filmmaker Josef Kubota Wladyka — born to a Japanese mother and a Polish father — channels in his latest film his upbringing in an intercultural family, driven by the passion for dance. Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty — presented at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival —is a fantasy dance drama that revolves around the…
©Courtesy of A24 Jesse Eisenberg‘s third film as a director takes a sharp turn from his previous two. “When You Finish Saving the World” (2022) and “A Real Pain” (2024) were grounded in recognizable human behavior, “The Debut” throws realism out the window for the delightfully wacky and eccentric. It is quirky, entertaining and packed with laughs, and Eisenberg nails…
ⓒCourtesy of The Toronto International Film Festival In Japan, manga can be a way for girls to express themselves, find an identity and, ultimately, connect with another person. In Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film, “Look Back” drawing gives two very different girls a way to express who they are and understand each other. What begins as…
ⓒCourtesy of Hasbro For many kids in the 1980s, the deaths of several fan-favorite Transformers in the franchise’s first animated feature landed just as traumatically as the shooting of “Old Yeller” had for their parents. Eventually, the most notable fallen Transformers “returned” in the two-part finale to season three. However, there is no denying his…
After the 2022 Dog, starring Channing Tatum, and the newly released The Dog Stars directed by Ridley Scott with Jacob Elordi, filmmaker David Ayer chooses Brad Pitt to bring to life a story about the love between a man and his four-legged companion. Heart Of The Beast begins with the slow days in the wilderness…
ⓒCourtesy of The New York Film Festival The most influential psychologically intimate films begin with the deceptive familiarity of close relationships. They eventually go on to reveal how grief and memory can gradually destabilize people’s sense of reality. The new drama, Everytime, does just that with its character-driven, observational story. The movie quietly infuses a…
The sound of waves crashing on the sand, the seagulls squeaking overhead, and a young man’s voice introduce us to If I Go Will They Miss Me. The feature is an expansion of the 2022 eponymous short film, and it had its world premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Film director Walter Thompson-Hernandez takes…
ⓒCourtesy of Neon They are too small to be proper kaiju, but they are too large and weird-looking to be human. Whatever they are, they are Ko Bum-seok’s problem. As the police chief of Hope Harbor, it is his job to serve and protect. However, he is not trained to fight monsters. Fortunately, his town…
ⓒCourtesy of TNT At their core, the most captivating historical thrillers explore power, uncertainty, truth and the consequences of political decisions. TNT’s new limited series, High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam, does just that by examining how intelligence can shape history when assumptions collide with incomplete or conflicting information. The show’s eight episodes also…
In the Out of Competition section of the 83rd Venice Film Festival IMPERIUM — directed by Sergei Loznitsa — rediscovers an unknown Soviet Union through Italian film archives. The filmmaker born in Belarus and raised in Ukraine, is among the most critically acclaimed directors, and his films have been screened at major international festivals. Loznitsa…
Matteo Garrone’s 2023 Io Capitano intensely captured the odyssey of migrants who fled Africa to find better opportunities across the Mediterranean Sea. The film focused on the story of Fofana Amara’s journey before arriving to his promised land. Now there’s a documentary that has been travelling across the festival circuit that takes this theme a…
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