The road to fame can lead you to many unexpected places. Lurker, written and directed by Alex Russell (Beef, The Bear), is a psychological thriller that follows an introverted 20-something retail clerk, Matthew (Théodore Pellerin), who encounters Oliver (Archie Madekwe), a popular and charismatic…

Sentimental Value filmmaker Joachim Trier, fresh from the film's triumph at the European Film Awards, told Deadline that a "European coalition of the willing" had ensured the picture got made. The Norwegian director said that he was "very proud to see also a lot of local European support for the…

With two months still to go, the Oscars are still far from a done deal, but while pundits nitpick about Best Picture and Director, a thornier decision will be to decide which is the best cast of the 10 films on the Oscar shortlist. Amazingly, this is the first time the category has been put to the…

Not many teenagers can say they played a world stadium tour and still managed to make it back in time for prom and high school graduation in one fell swoop. And yet, here was Sinners star Miles Caton, chatting casually with me via Zoom on a Tuesday morning. When I make the accusation that he’s simply…

When the London Critics Circle shortlisted Delroy Lindo as one of their five nominees for Best Supporting Actor this year, for his part as Delta Slim in Ryan Coogler's Sinners, it's possible but unlikely that every last one of them knew that they were, essentially, voting for a local. It's a measure…

Rose Byrne's win at the Golden Globes on Sunday night was a victory for more than just her, writer-director Mary Bronstein, and the film they made together, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. In a year dominated by films in which women largely took a supporting role while the men got on with the important…

Seldom does a movie linger in your bones long after you've watched it. And Kristen Stewart's directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, was built to pull your psyche deep down underneath the ocean waves.  Based on the memoir of the same name by Lidia Yuknavitch, the visceral film, shot in a…

There have been about 75 school shootings in the United States as of December 2025, according to CNN's analysis of reports by Gun Violence Archive, Education Week and Everytown for Gun Safety. Forty-three were on college campuses while 32 were on K-12 school grounds. The high risk of injury or death…

When Ari Aster saw Korean director Jang Joon-hwan's Save the Green Planet! he felt inspired to call upon Will Tracy to write a remake. Tracy's writing credits include Succession, The Menu, The Regime and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, all of which perfectly placed him to write a screenplay about…

Sunrises and sunsets are an important part of Richard Linklater's filmography, forming the backdrop of two romantic films he made with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in 1995 and 2004 respectively. The same concept could be said to apply to the two films the director premiered in 2025. For Cannes, he…

Creating the perfect fairytale is no easy feat, but the Montreal-based animators Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski are used to a challenge. Five years in the making is the expertly and beautifully crafted The Girl Who Cried Pearls. Narrated by Colm Feore and James Hyndman in the English and French…

Perhaps it's true that the way of water has no beginning and no end – at least this is the case for the record-breaking French swimmer Alfred Nakache. Florence Miailhe's latest short film Butterfly (also known by its French title Papillon), produced by Ron Dyens, showcases the real-life story of…