With Switzerland having advanced in the 2026 World Cup, the country is about to celebrate another huge event just around the corner. The Locarno International Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 79th edition, featuring 233 films from 69 […]

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About a decade after turning audiences’ heads with his terrifying hit The Wailing, Na Hong-Jin returned to this year’s Cannes Film Festival with what is now considered Korea’s most expensive film ever: a different kind of tale about a community […]

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After slowing down following a big directing streak in the 2010s, writer-director Joe Swanberg is back with a new authentically acted feature. The Sun Never Sets is a romantic drama that centers on a love triangle set in contemporary Alaska […]

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The stoner comedy is alive and well! While the legalization of marijuana continues to be a debated topic, writer-director Dylan Meyer’s raunchy comedy The Wrong Girls emphasizes its hilarious side effects that make the subgenre as legendary as it is. […]

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With a working relationship spanning over a decade, Michigan-based guerilla filmmaker Joel Potrykus and actor Joshua Burge have collaborated on five feature films. Such films that solidified their craft in the “metal slackerism” genre include Buzzard and Relaxer. Their most […]

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Having premiered at this year’s Sundance, writer-director Adam Meeks has packed some star power for his feature debut, Union County. Based on his short film of the same name, the drama stars Will Poulter and Noah Centineo as brothers and […]

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Ten years after shocking audiences with his polarizing The Neon Demon, with a pair of limited streaming series in between, Nicolas Winding Refn is about to make another jaw-dropping return this summer with his newest, neon-soaked feature thriller. Her Private […]

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For about four decades, Ross McElwee has been one of the most revered pioneers of documentary filmmaking. Now, Music Box Films will be rolling out two of his greatest works in select theaters this July! The first is a 4K […]

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Among the many Neon titles that graced this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Hirokazu Koreeda’s newest drama explores a vision of the future that may not be too far off from our era. Sheep in the Box stars Daigo Yamamoto and […]

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Following his winning 2018 narrative debut Diane, film critic & programmer-turned-director Kent Jones returns with a New York tale that pays tribute to a bygone artistic generation. Late Fame stars Willem Dafoe, giving one of his best performances, as former […]

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