Jury president Alexander Payne is getting flamed online for simply admitting, during the post-awards press conference, that “No Other Choice” didn’t even make his jury’s top eight.

It’s official, Jim Jarmusch has won the Golden Lion for “Father Mother Sister Brother.” A shocking turn of events, but a lovely little film has won. Still, a truly surprising pick.

For fans, Big Kahuna Burger is one of those deep cuts that’s been floating around the QT-verse for decades: it first showed up in “Reservoir Dogs,” and was immortalized in “Pulp Fiction.”

This project was first announced as a Stallone-led “Cliffhanger” sequel, but many months later, right as production was about to start, things shifted dramatically.

Boots Riley has already shot his next film, titled “I Love Boosters,” in fact it wrapped production in November 2024, but don’t expect it to come out this year.

What saves this film—what keeps the lights going—is Sydney Sweeney. She’s the reason this thing breathes. Her performance is exceptional.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” has been quietly screened for select press in New York and Los Angeles this past Friday.

Tim Mielants’ “Steve” is the kind of film that insists on its own intensity. It’s a suffocating experience, and that’s despite a committed Cillian Murphy performance.

Paul Greengrass makes movies like a man chasing after panic with a camera, and in “The Lost Bus” he has a doozy of a subject: the 2018 Camp Fire.

Looks like we might be looking at a $25M Friday for “The Conjuring: The Last Rites.” The opening weekend is now aiming for the $80M mark. Unbelievable. Beyond expectations.

About “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” prominent Italian journalist Luigi Locatelli argues that it was “unfair” to screen it in competition, since its subject matter alone virtually guaranteed Golden Lion contention.

Peele currently has no working script. He hasn’t written a thing. Does he even have an idea? Who knows.

Back in March, Universal had lost the rights to the Jason Bourne franchise which was being shopped around to other studios. They just got it back.

Netflix continues to pile up prestige projects, this time scooping up “Saturn Return,” a Chicago-set romance starring Charles Melton, Rachel Brosnahan, and Will Poulter.

“We just finished the script for a sequel … but I’m gonna pass the torch on this one as director,” Álvarez told TooFab at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights.

Here’s Puck’s Matt Belloni with a very interesting study which he rounds out a sprawling research study as proof that we’re living in the Venice, Telluride, and the Rotten Tomatoes Mirage.

Here’s a teaser trailer for Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” which seems to be sticking to its November 7 release date via MUBI.

One of the great legends in movie history is the original, still unfound, cut of Orson Welles’ “The Magnificent Ambersons.” William Friedkin once called it the “holy grail of cinema.”

The problem? The “Spielberg Deal.” That means top-of-market pay, final cut, and full creative and marketing control.

The narrative is also clear: this is Zhao’s big comeback. After being chewed up by Marvel with the much-maligned “Eternals,” “Hamnet”is being positioned as her redemption