Bay Area Reporter Jewel’s Catch One The 2016 documentary of a black gay dance bar in Los Angeles by the same name, “Jewel’s Catch One” is a hagiographic portrait of Jewel Thais-Williams, the bar’s founder and owner.
The Dink Pickleball’s big streaming break: Mary Steenburgen and Producer Mike Witherill on ‘The Dink’ An inside look into Hollywood’s first A-list pickleball film
Paid-members only Korean Cinema The Fertilizer Home Part of the 30th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
No Gods Left Exclusive “Everyone Has Destructive Thoughts”: An Interview with Tamiris Zhangazinova "I'm so tired of this shit."
Fritz on Fridays Fritz on Fridays: Destiny My best friend recently told me about the Benadryl Hat Man.
Baltic Cinema Song Sources 1866 The lone film event at the festival was a screening of the new documentary Song Sources 1866 (Dziesmu Avoti 1866), a 33-minute short from first-time director Dace Micāne-Zālīte about the first Latvian youth choir festival in Lazdona and its legacy in the present.
Korean Cinema Bias Wrecker: MAMAMOO: My Con the Movie & Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience A better propaganda film about power than Melania.
Josh O'Connor Disclosure Day A boomer’s hopeful, naive dream in the power of moving image-based media.
Paid-members only No Gods Left Exclusive Bodies Bodies Bodies The most resonant slasher of the decade.
No Gods Left Exclusive Code of Misconduct Alternative programming for hockey spectators disturbed by the game’s troubled legacy of rewarding misogynistic and sexually abusive behavior.
Fritz on Fridays: Voyage to Metropolis Fritz on Fridays: Voyage to Metropolis Cookie-cutter material as far as Blu-ray behind-the-scenes documentaries go.
2026 Cannes Film Festival Che Guevara: The Last Companions Isn’t too far removed from any soulless Che Guevara T-shirt that reduces revolutionary politics to marketable heroes of the past.
Baltic Cinema Valdis Celmiņš on Digital Cinema, Documentary Filmmaking, and the Passing of Time: An Interview with the Latvian Answer to Roger Deakins "I want to try to find the poetry in the small details."
Lukita Maxwell An Autumn Summer Regardless, it’s still fun to see the Sleeping Bear Dunes in a real movie playing in real Michigan theaters.
No Gods Left Exclusive Y Vân: The Lost Sounds of Saigon The introduction to the music of Y Vân is reason enough to catch The Lost Sounds of Saigon.
Baltic Cinema Inmates running an asylum: on Kaljo Kiisk’s cult Estonian satire Madness A fitting North Star for Estonian cinema
Fritz on Fridays Fritz on Fridays: Ministry of Fear Fascists being everywhere in (formerly) Allied territory and secret international rings of fucked-up criminal elites no longer feel that farfetched. The clandestine seance of the fascist Mothers of Free Nations members could have taken place on Little St. James or North Fox Island.
David Lowery Mother Mary David Lowery doesn’t give easy answers, and that’s part of what makes the film special.
In Review Online Desert Warrior The marketing touts Desert Warrior as the film to finally put Saudi Arabia on the map of global cinephilia. It certainly is the biggest.
No Gods Left Exclusive “I Played with the Devil Inside Me”: An Interview with Raitis Stūrmanis on Red Code Blue Bombs, mustaches, and a journey into acting.
Palestinian Cinema Q&A with Director Annemarie Jacir on Palestine 36 "I hope that connection is the light in all this darkness."
