Ten Thousand Saints, the new film from directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, covers a lot of ground. It’s about love and family and secrets and growing up, but in a lot of ways it’s also about New York City. Specifically, it's about the East Village—the neighborhood where the ... More

Whit Stillman’s 1990 film Metropolitan is the sort of movie that, even in its third decade, can serve as shorthand to describe a certain type of someone. In fact, it can seem at times that when it comes to quirky, privileged WASPs, Stillman invented that certain type of someone. So it’s no surprise that ... More

In director Dito Montiel’s latest, Boulevard, married Nolan (Robin Williams in his final film role) is forced to come to terms with the truth about himself after an encounter with a younger man during a road trip. And while revealing his secret changes Nolan forever, it also throws the world ... More

In Samba, the new French-language from directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, Omar Sy—most recently seen in a slew of big-budget action movies—takes on a quiet, affecting role as the titular character, an immigrant living in France and exhausting every avenue imaginable to obtain citizenship. He’s paired at ... More

The actual Stanford Prison Experiment, which divided 24 young men into “prisoners” and “guards” and studied what happened next, took place in 1971. Now, almost 45 years later a film on the study—The Stanford Prison Experiment, out this week—looks at what happened during that seven-day period and ... More

Jose Stern is going through a rough patch. In the new movie No Way Jose—out now on VOD—the 40-something Angeleno finds himself single, underemployed, desperate and wanted by the law. Thanks to writer, director and star Adam Goldberg, however, what could be a complete downer instead is a nuanced, touching and ... More

Corey Stoll could have slipped into any number of supervillain-appropriate costumes on his first day as the bad guy Yellowjacket in Ant-Man, the big-screen adaptation of the Marvel comic. Instead, he ended up hanging from the ceiling, wearing a skintight polka-dot one-piece.  “We did motion capture on my very first day,” ... More

Life is said to imitate art, but sometimes it happens the other way around. Alex Holdridge and Linnea Saasen, who co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in the romantic drama, Meet Me in Montenegro, based the movie on their own romance. After the pair met in Berlin, they fell in love and ... More

There’s something for every Nina Simone fan to take away from the new, Liz Garbus-directed Netflix release What Happened, Miss Simone? The film features a dizzying array of live performances, private photos, diary entries and interviews that serve to sketch an image of the complicated, incredibly talented singer and the ... More

Inspired by the boom in food-truck culture and their own love of movies, Heather Hope-Allison and her husband Steve decided to merge the two and Street Food Cinema was born. The Los Angeles-based festival is reinventing the movie-viewing experience by bringing together popular films, up-and-coming musical ... More