Films

Gavagai With the 63rd edition of the New York Film Festival kicking off tomorrow (Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt is the Opening Night Film), we at Filmmaker offer a list of …

Toward the end of her recently republished autobiography, “My Country, Africa,” the political organizer Andrée Blouin reflects on the failures of the independence movements that galvanized so many Africans, including …

A book-loving American woman in her 20s decides to spend time in Europe before she settles into the safety of a finance job in New York City, but she ends …

Terence Stamp, who made his name as an actor in 1960s London and went on to play the arch-villain General Zod in the Hollywood hits “Superman” and “Superman II”, has …

Eli Roth has spent decades in the entertainment industry, but he’s still chasing the high of telling his schoolyard friends about the wild new movie he just saw. “If someone …

In August 1975, about 50 years ago today, several popular films were showing in U.S. theaters, with Jaws being the reigning number-one box office hit. Jaws was the highest-grossing film …

Universal Pictures is taking a stand against tech companies using films as training tools for artificial intelligence. The film studio is now adding a warning to the end credits of …

For years now, horror fans and critics have grown increasingly and understandably impatient with the tendency of genre films to orient their scares toward a clearly conveyed central metaphor. The …

In 2014, a sergeant at a California state prison sent James “JJ’88” Jacobs, who was 25 at the time, to “the hole” – solitary confinement in a 6-by-6 cell. One …

The much-anticipated release of Shrek 5 has been delayed for a second time. DreamWorks Animation originally scheduled the sequel for next summer, but pushed it back to December 2026. It …