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RAPT. TOGETHER IN THE DARK. Let's Talk About Cinema.

Gordy Grundy, Editor-in-Chief: Today, we announce a new action, to bring attention to the beleaguered cinema art form. We believe our expression, "Rapt. Together. In The Dark." condenses a complex medium into a simple definition. Let's save Cinema. Let's start the conversation...


Aronofsky's Latest: Official Trailer 'Caught Stealing'; Directed by Darren Aronofsky; Screenplay by Charlie Huston, Based on his book; Starring Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D'Onofrio, Griffin Dunne, Benito A Martínez Ocasio aka "Bad Bunny", and Carol Kane


Official Trailer 'The New Boy'; Directed by Warwick Thornton; Starring Cate Blanchett, Aswan Reid, Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair


Frieze: Best Films at Cannes 2025; From Mascha Schilinski’s striking debut to Wes Anderson’s triumphant return to form, here are five films generating buzz at the French festival

Iñárritu Describes His Upcoming Tom Cruise Movie As “A Wild Comedy of Catastrophic Proportions”

Alex Billington: Cannes 2025: Spike Lee's 'Highest 2 Lowest' is Barely a Real Movie; "Does he even care anymore? His new movie is terrible – it's cringe trash"

Vulture: 'Highest 2 Lowest' Is All the Best and Worst of Spike Lee; An adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 'High and Low'


'It’s Not Me' Review: An Innovative Homage To Carax’s Main Muse; Delves through his own personal archive in this glorious essay film that’s in thrall to Jean-Luc Godard


Official Trailer 'It's Not Me'; An Essay Film; Directed by Leos Carax

‘Eddington’ Opens With 1.5 on Screen’s Cannes Jury Grid; A score that suggests bafflement more than outright disdain; "We may have found our basement (score)"

Cannes Review: Ari Aster’s Eddington is an Ambitious 2020 Period Piece That Works in Fits and Spurts


Official Trailer 2 'Jurassic World Rebirth'; Directed by Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story); Script by original 'Jurassic Park' screenwriter David Koepp; Starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend and Mahershala Ali


FKA Cinema Recommends: Official Trailer 'In The Fade' (2017); German Neo-Noir; Streaming; Film by Fatih Akin; Starring Numan Acar, Adam Bousdoukos and an outstanding performance by Diane Kruger

Jordan Ruimy: ‘Die, My Love’ Elevated by Jennifer Lawrence’s Extraordinary Performance [Cannes]

Collider: 'Die, My Love' Review: Jennifer Lawrence Is Back on Top Opposite Robert Pattinson in Explosive Motherhood Tale by Director Lynne Ramsay

Little White Lies: 'Die, My Love' First-Look Review; Lynne Ramsay finds a kindred spirit in Jennifer Lawrence, joining forces for a blistering portrait of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown


Trailer 'Nouvelle Vague' A Film by Richard Linklater; This is the story of Godard making ”Breathless”, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made “Breathless”; Starring Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, Adrien Rouyard, Antoine Besson, Jodie Ruth Forest

Cannes 2025: Actor, Now Director, Harris Dickinson's Film 'Urchin' is an Impressive Debut


Video: 'Urchin' New Clip Official from Cannes Film Festival 2025

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Will Be the First Blockbuster Shot Entirely on Imax Film Cameras; After 'Oppenheimer,' the big-screen company designed new cameras and production tech to allow Nolan to film in Imax, on film, end-to-end in his upcoming epic, and not just for select sequences

‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ Seems To Really Be Hated; Intense dislike for The Weeknd? Director Trey Edward Shults is one of the industry's most promising...

The Weeknd Burns Down His Whole Persona (and a House or Two) in a Wild, Cathartic New Film; Abel Tesfaye and director Trey Shults talk about teaming up to imagine the downfall of The Weeknd onscreen in their new movie, 'Hurry Up Tomorrow'

Director of the 1987 Neo-Western Vampire Pic [Near Dark,' Kathryn Bigelow Involved in A24’s ‘Near Dark’ Remake Series


Cannes Review: Oliver Laxe’s Desert Trance 'Sirat' Is a Grand, Adventurous Achievement; Trailer

Jordan Ruimy: The Chronology of Water: Praise and Disappointment Greet Kristen Stewart’s Debut [Cannes]

The Playlist: ‘The Chronology Of Water’ Review: Kristen Stewart’s Long-Gestating Directorial Debut Is A Stylish Triumph [Cannes]


Ryan Coogler: ‘I’m more confident in my film language than I am in my English’; Coogler reflects on developing a story rooted in personal passions with his grand, IMAX-shot thriller, 'Sinners'

Cannes Gossip: Leos Carax, Albert Serra, David Lowery, Alexander Payne and More Plan Next Features

Is Netflix vs Cannes a Dispute Over the Future of Cinema? Netflix is actively and self-servingly restricting the platforms films can occupy, but it’s not the only one grumbling about Cannes’s fussy rules


Have You Seen This Early Villeneuve? Official Trailer 'Incendies' (2011) Directed by Denis Villeneuve


Trailer 'Here Now'; Italian Thriller; Directed by Gabriele Muccino; Starring Elena Kampouris, Lorenzo Richelmy, Saul Nanni


Official Trailer 'Americana' Writer and Directorial Debut of Tony Tost; Starring Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser, Halsey, Simon Rex, with Eric Dane

[Cannes] Egypt’s Biggest Movie Star Can’t Escape the Authoritarian Regime; Review: ‘Eagles of the Republic’

'Alien: Earth' Series Plot Details Revealed and Official Release Day Set Alongside New Images


Ghosts of Empire: "The year is 1945. Japan is in ruins, not just physically but spiritually, psychologically, and morally, scorched from the trauma of WWII"; How Two Samurai Films Rebuilt Japan’s Soul; Kurosawa vs. Mizoguchi in a Postwar Showdown of Grit vs. Ghosts


Interview with David Cronenberg: A Ghost Story Is Just Another Religion


Official Trailer 'A Poet'; Cannes Film Festival 2025 - Un Certain Regard; From Filmmaker Simón Mesa Soto; Starring Ubeimar, Rebeca Andrade, and Guillermo Cardona



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