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An interview with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa about his newest film THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER

Ngozi Onwurah discusses her radically feminist, Afrofuturist tragedy, WELCOME II THE TERRORDOME (1995), screening in a new restoration at BA

The director of "DRIVE" returns with his first film in a decade, a psychedelic genre pastiche of irreverence, high drama, and haute couture.

The steely star of "IT FOLLOWS" returns in the upcoming film adaptation of the best-selling Gothic horror novel by Virginia Feito.

The director and star on bringing blend trauma, titillation and TLC back to the cinema.

Jane Schoenbrun's third feature, a surreally comic, slickly postmodern slasher about, well, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, earned the

Since the late eighties, Gregg Araki has been goosing audiences out of their comfort zones with catty humor, art-pop surrealism, and plenty

I’ve long been fascinated by the double standard applied to oral sex on screen.

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This article draws a direct historical throughline between the AIDS epidemic, the Satanic Panic and the ‘warlock film’ in the 1980s to sugge

Tuner is an earnest dad movie played with a lot of heart, perfect for a matinee or a casual date night, and it’s more than worthy as a debut

Damian Mc Carthy's latest is a riotous horror thrill ride that delivers surgically composed scares and big laughs with equal aplomb.

Our staff honors the many iconic films in John Waters’ career and their meaningful connections to his work.

Obsession is a slyly well-structured and blackly comic monkey’s paw romp that draws you in and keeps you hooked from start to finish.

Mike, Payton McCarty-Simas, and Rob St. Mary explore Annapurna Sriram's wild 2025 SXSW winner Fucktoys, plus an interview with the filmmaker

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