Sometimes you read something that seems like a joke, but, friends, I can assure you that the below is not a prank.

Canadian filmmaker Sarah Polley hasn’t made a film since the acclaimed 2012 documentary “Stories We Tell.” Before then, she had made two powerful original dramas, “Away From Her,” and “Take This Waltz.”

Nadav Lapid‘s Ahed’s Knee is a big whatever. It did however make me wonder about the dynamic he had with his late mother — for whom this film is dedicated to. Otherwise, this is self-aggrandizing stuff and the kind of film that may have gotten raved about at Cannes, but will quickly be forgotten come its release date.

It turns out Daniel Kaluuya has gone off the deep-end and rubbed people the wrong way with his newly-attained celeb status.

This above is a shot of Paul Schrader on the set of “The Master Gardener.” The film has wrapped its breezy 4-week shoot.

It doesn’t look as though Wes Anderson will be bringing a movie to Cannes for the second year in a row.

Variety’s Elsa Keslassy has become one of the more trust-worthy Cannes insiders out there. Her piece today, weighing around a dozen titles that are destined to premiere at the festival aligns pretty well with the intel I’ve been gathering these last few months.

Back in November, I had mentioned that Ruben Ostlund had already submitted to Cannes a rough cut of his upcoming movie “Triangle of Sadness.”

There was an online test-screening on 02.09.22 for “Spaceman,” which stars Adam Sandler as Jakub Procházka and Carey Mulligan as his wife Lenka. The film comes to us from director Johan Renck (“Chernobyl“), with a screenplay written by Colby Day.

Blame it on the inflation, or just those plain greedy theatre owners, regardless, watching “The Batman” will cost you an arm and a leg if you live in a big US city.

Here’s another superhero movie that will shatter COVID-era expectations.

I’ve been saying for a few months now that Jessica Chastain might sneak up a victory come Oscar night, but her win at the Screen Actors Guild this past Sunday was nevertheless surprising.

Between 2000-2010 every movie Pixar released either very good or a flat-out masterpiece.

Madonna is a terrible director. She’s already perpetrated on us the unwatchable “W.E,” and the atrocious “Filth and Wisdom,” but that clearly wasn’t enough.

The Cannes Film Festival has released a statement in which they stated they would be banning “Russian delegations” for this year’s edition, unless the war gets resolved.

Inch-by-inch, day-by-day, we are approaching this sad truth — a world where CODA might be crowned Best Picture over Campion, PTA, Spielberg …

Here’s another (negative) reaction of George Miller’s “Tgree Thousand Years of Longing,” which screened last Tuesday at the AMC Lincoln Square in New York City. The early word is that this is a genie romance that will be highly polarizing. A $60 million dollar art film: