
The Next Best Picture Podcast released a new episode reviewing "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie," the sequel to the 2023 hit. Hosts Josh Parham, Giovanni Lago, and Daniel Howat discuss the returning creative team, a star‑studded voice cast, and the film’s animation, story, and score. The episode is part of the Evergreen Podcasts Network and invites listeners to support the show via Patreon. It offers a spoiler‑filled analysis for both fans of the Nintendo franchise and newcomers.

The Fable (2024) adapts Katsuhisa Minami’s dark manga into a four‑episode anime that follows professional hitman Akira Sato as he is forced into a sabbatical and ordinary life in Osaka. Director Ryosuke Takahashi blends high‑stakes violence with domestic interludes, using...
Veteran journalist Tony Jones’s debut documentary *Sentient* premiered at Sundance, exposing unprecedented undercover footage of monkey testing in an undisclosed English lab. The film was funded by the Growing Kindness foundation, an Animals Australia initiative, which secured full editorial independence...

"Good Game," directed by Dickson Leung and distributed by One Cool Pictures, debuted at the Hong Kong Ani‑Com & Games Expo 2025 and will join Fantasia’s lineup later this year. The film follows Tai, a struggling internet‑café owner, who assembles...

The Berlin International Film Festival showcased a slate of ambitious new titles, headlined by the world‑premiere of Rosebush Pruning, which features an A‑list cast including Callum Turner, Riley Keough and Pamela Anderson. Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro’s near‑future drama The Blue Trail captured...

Amazon Prime Video adds the drama *Saipan*, directed by Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn, which reenacts Roy Keane’s controversial 2002 walkout from the Irish World Cup camp in Saipan. The film pits a stubborn, principled Keane—played by rising star Éanna Hardwicke—against...
Japanese director Keita Matsuda's new period drama "Homura Kagayoe" premiered on April 3, 2026, dramatizing the brief but turbulent reign of Sengoku warlord Ashina Moritaka. The 112‑minute film, distributed by S・D・P and shinshin, stars Towa Araki as Moritaka and explores...

The article lists the nine films that hold the record for the most Academy Award nominations, highlighting Ryan Coogler’s horror‑blaxploitation Sinners (2025) with a new high of 16 nods. Four classic titles—All About Eve, Titanic, La La Land, and Gone with the Wind—each...
We Are Stardust, a Norwegian documentary by Elisabeth Rasmussen, follows musician‑turned‑stardust hunter Jon Larsen as he spends a decade sifting urban gutters, roofs and roadsides for micrometeorites. The film documents his quest to prove that extraterrestrial dust can be collected in...
Episode 147 of the Director Watch podcast dives into Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1951 opera film The Tales of Hoffmann. Co‑hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter are joined by Pop Culture Confidential host Christina Jeurling Birro for an in‑depth analysis...

Animator Julian Glander produced the feature-length indie animation "Boys Go to Jupiter" on a shoestring $30,000 budget, leveraging Blender and a small team. The film debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival, then toured over 50 festivals, earning screening fees and...

Netflix has removed the lock on Sony Pictures titles for its Standard with Ads plan, granting ad‑tier subscribers access to both legacy catalog movies and fresh Pay‑1 window releases. The change arrives years earlier than the 2027 deadline originally set...

"The Blue Trail," a dystopian drama directed by Gabriel Mascaro, follows 77‑year‑old Tereza as she rebels against a government mandate to relocate the elderly, embarking on a perilous Amazon trek. The film premiered in competition at the 75th Berlin International...

Netflix unveiled the first look at its upcoming eight‑episode series "Kennedy," starring Michael Fassbender as Joe Kennedy Sr. The drama adapts the 2020 biography "JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917‑1956" and follows the Kennedy family from the...

John Schlesinger’s 1985 film *The Falcon and the Snowman* dramatizes the real‑life espionage case of Christopher Boyce and Daulton Lee, two privileged California youths who sold U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union for modest pay. The movie, scripted by Steven...