Wes Anderson's 'Asteroid City' is a surreal meditation on the human condition and his own film identity. Our podcast explores his movie with a non-spoiler discussion and a spoiler deep dive!

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WALL-E (2008) is just one in a growing tradition of films that depict artificial intelligence by anthropomorphizing it, an inclination that originated along with the concept. When the field was launched at a Dartmouth conference in 1956, the name was selected over alternatives like cybernetics, automata theory, and complex information processing because the notion of intelligence oriented machines toward a human metric—the conference’s organizer, John McCarthy, believed that the differences between human and machine tasks were merely “illusory.” Twenty years later,…

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to watch a movie. Some of the greatest films in cinematic history owe their greatness to presence of rain. Rain in cinema is often said to be symbol of nostalgia, solitude, chaos, love, rejection, death, decay and so on. But are not some things just simply what they are and nothing more? In the end, rain is just rain, water returning to its origin. The following list doesn’t feature movies…

Asteroid City is Wes Anderson's biggest, boldest film to date. After sojourns in Zubrowka, Japan, and France, the filmmaker returns to the US, assembling one of the year’s most sparkling ensemble casts to deliver his own idiosyncratic take on science-fiction staples. These are wrapped up in his distinctive cinematic style – characterised by pronounced symmetry and bold colour palettes – and shot through with his unique sense of humour. Forced by the Covid pandemic to build his new vision from…

In 1973, four years before George Lucas directed a small sci-fi caper you may have heard of called Star Wars, he penned a script entitled The Adventures of Indiana Smith. He brought the idea to his friend Steven Spielberg who loved the concept of an archaeologist adventurer but suggested they change the character's name. Once he came aboard, the pair inked a studio deal for a series of Indiana Jones movies and one of cinema's most beloved action heroes was born. 

In celebration of Pride Month, A.frame teamed up with the Academy's LGBTQ+ Coalition and created this guide to some of the must-see films of queer cinema.

Get ready for a thrilling lesson in Wing Chun Kung Fu!

Host Rico Gagliano meets up with legendary filmmaker Wim Wenders just off the Croisette, as we launch a special video mini-season of the MUBI Podcast taped on location at Cannes. More details here.

In this very special "Bring the Noise" edition of Film Independent Presents, Oscar winner Morgan Neville (Won't You Be My Neighbor) talks to director Mary McCartney about her new documentary IF THESE WALLS COULD SING.

“Why would they do that?” questioned my 7-year-old daughter as the credits began to roll for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Her query did not stem from the foggy haze of confusion surrounding a plot point, but from the clear-eyed rage of anger. For 2 hours and 20 minutes, a child who normally gets restless in movies was fully engrossed in the adventure of Miles Morales and his Spider-Verse friends and then the plug was pulled.

An essay by Michael Barrett