In Britain, two people are diagnosed with Parkinson’s every hour. In John Madden’s (Shakespeare in Love) new film, Onwards and Sideways, those two people happen to receive their diagnoses at the ...

Telling the story of Rocky’s making means re-creating the essence of the iconic, Best Picture-winning, franchise-spawning film itself. As the film’s depiction of the young, hungry ...

In an interview with “Vanity Fair,” master filmmaker Mike Leigh described the idiosyncrasies of his unorthodox filmmaking process. Leigh has made movies his own way for the past fifty years, ...

Who said Pixar/Disney and Illumination have the final say when it comes to children’s movies with life affirming messages? At this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Julián, a film ...

As an actor looking to direct your first feature, you could do a lot worse than choosing a family melodrama. The genre requires committed work from the acting ensemble, which allows the director ...

A famous Hadith in the Muslim faith, attributed to Prophet Muhammad, gives writer-director Bassam Tariq’s desperate, spiritual family drama and hit-man action thriller its title, and the ...

Toukhy’s Woman Unknown has won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival from a jury led by American actress and filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal.  Woman ...

The Creative Arts Emmys have been given out, so it’s time to look at what remains at the Primetime ceremony. The Pitt had a big showing at the Creative Arts Emmys, winning the all-important ...

Writer and director Siân Heder is well-positioned to tell the underdog tale of the fight for disability rights in America that encompasses her new film Being Heumann, world premiering at the 51st ...

Every year, when I return to Telluride, the first thing I look for isn’t a movie. It’s Ajax Peak. Standing on Colorado Avenue in the early morning hours and looking east toward the ...

On the opening night of the 2026 Telluride Film Festival, writer-director Andrew Haigh received the coveted Silver Medallion award, an honor that’s given to artists for their body of work, ...

Is the grass always greener, even in old age? This is the question asked by Kornél Mundruczó’s eleventh feature Place to Be, which opens a little too pointedly with a shot of its 93-year-old star ...