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Listen In! Eternal Hollywood Mystery, Wrapped in Mink and Fog, Survives the Malibu Fires; Site of ’20s and ’30s starlet Thelma Todd’s tragic— and confounding— death is still standing in the devastated Palisades

Same Old Stories: Is This Going To Be Hollywood’s Laziest Year Ever? New trailers for 'Fantastic Four,' 'Smurf's and 'Jurassic World' movies give us an early glimpse at a summer that’s looking even more tired than usual


Official Trailer 'Jurassic World Rebirth' Directed by Gareth Edwards; Script by original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp; Starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali


Marvel's Latest Franchise! Official Teaser 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby; Starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach


Official Trailer 'Hurry Up Tomorrow' (2025); American musical psychological thriller; Directed and edited by Trey Edward Shults ('Krisha', 'It Comes at Night', and 'Waves'); Starring The Weeknd, Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan


Official Trailer for Funky Texas Comedy 'Rats!' About a Graffiti Artist


Sora’s Artist Program Heralds a New Form of A.I. Filmmaking — But At What Cost? Sora Selects showcases the A.I. short films of 10 artists using the Sora artificial intelligence video generator; Last week saw the official arrival of a whole new genre of filmmaking


Sundance Review: ‘Train Dreams’ Career-Best Performance From Joel Edgerton Makes a Poetic Slice Of Americana Soar

Netflix Buys ‘Train Dreams’ At Sundance; Deal In High-Teen Millions; Stars Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, William H. Macy and Clifton Collins Jr.; 81 on Metacritic and 92% on Rotten Tomatoes


Meet the Artist 2025: Director Clint Bentley on “Train Dreams”


Official Trailer 'The Last Showgirl'; Directed by Gia Coppola; Starring Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brenda Song, Billie Lourd and Kiernan Shipka; Music by Miley Cyrus


Much Discussed! Official Trailer 'My Dead Friend Zoe' (2025) Starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris

Sundance Review: M.J. O’Toole’s 'OBEX'; Like Lynch’s 'Eraserhead' and Jarmusch’s 'Dead Man'


Sundance 2025: The Sublime 'Love, Brooklyn' Starring Andre Holland

'A Complete Unknown' Director, James Mangold Is The Child Of The Artists Robert Mangold and Sylvia Plimack Mangold; Growing Up in 1960's Lower East Side, Near Dylan

Luca Guadagnino in Talks to Direct Kubrick’s ‘Aryan Papers’ for Warner Bros.; Favored unrealized project of Stanley Kubrick; "Most likely be using the original screenplay, penned by Kubrick himself"


'Compensation' (1999) Trailer: Zeinabu Irene Davis’ Newly Restored Independent Cinema Landmark; Following the life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s that parallels with another living in the 1990s

Inside Disney’s Cynical, Soul-Sucking Remake Machine; Why does Disney insist on cranking out inferior, computer-generated versions of its hand-crafted masterpieces? The answer may surprise you

‘Landman’: Billy Bob Thornton and Showrunner Christian Wallace Discuss the Texas Oilfield Drama, Taylor Sheridan’s “Machine-Like” Process & More [Bingeworthy Podcast]

Lost Films: Hitchcock, Gatsby and Oscar-winning Movies that Vanished

The Political Radicalism of British Film Collectives; Tracks the histories of collective filmmaking practices, often responding to the turbulence of British politics

Tackling the Tobacco Industry, ‘The Insider’ at 25: Director Michael Mann on Fending Off Possible Spies and Clashing With Mike Wallace; Film about corporate lies and media mistrust remains prophetic today, but faced powerful foes upon its release

Actress Margaret Qualley Says Starring in Richard Linklater’s ‘Blue Moon’ Was ‘Life-Changing’; Story of American lyricist Lorenz Hart; "It was incredibly surreal for me."; She has been trying to work with the auteur for more than a decade

Director Jeff Baena Is Gone, but the Creative Family He Nurtured Lives On; Fellow filmmaker Alex Ross Perry pays tribute to Aubrey Plaza’s late husband, a discerning cineaste, Scrabble savant, and consummate master of ceremonies


Doc Trailer 'Architecton'; Latest Documentarian Victor Kossakovsky; "Architecton is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward"

Official Trailer for Ariane Labed's Strange Sisterhood Thriller 'September Says'; Adapted from the novel "Sisters" written by Daisy Johnson; Starring Mia Tharia and Pascale Kann


Bonkers Grindhouse WWII Action Movie 'Dick Dynamite 1944' Trailer


Official Trailer 'On Call'; New Police Procedural Set in Long Beach, CA.; Starring Troian Bellisario, Brandon Larracuente, Lori Loughlin and Rich Ting, with Eriq La Salle


Trailer "Black Bag' Starring Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Naomie Harris, Pierce Brosnan, Regé-Jean Page; Directed by Steven Soderbergh; Written by David Koepp



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