Friends, if you aren't caught up yet on the podcast, during the month of January we focused on movies from the 1970s. We even had Letterboxd West Coast Editor Mia Vicino as a guest to choose our final movie of the month. Opening Night fans rejoice.

There are so many horror films that I want to enjoy on my incredibly long watchlist, but I will always return to a few of my favorites. There’s something special about the movies I have a lifelong relationship with vs the titles I only watch once. The difference between a best friend and someone I barely know. 

Welcome to our Colossus Movie Guide for The Batman. This guide contains everything you need to understand the movie. You’ll find a quick explanation of The Batman, as well as our library of material covering key aspects of the movie. We encourage comments to help us put together the best possible guide. Thank you!

Picturehouse programmer Rose Butler explores precisely what made Weimar-era cinema so revolutionary.

I’ve always talked a lot. I’ve routinely heard how most women do—much more than men at least. There’s a shame people project on talkative women; so much so that research suggests women speak less in public spaces because they don’t want to be perceived as talking too much. 

Playing Marilyn Monroe would be daunting for the most experienced of actors, but Ana de Armas had the added challenge of Blonde being her first starring role. Throughout writer-director Andrew Dominik’s hallucinatory adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s 2000 novel of the same name, de Armas portrays the famous blonde during many stages of her life — from her humble start as Norma Jeane Baker and the childhood trauma that shaped her, to her fraught relationships and marriages, to the zenith…

Lucile Hadzihalilovic, daughter of a Bosnian father and a French mother, grew up near the ocean in Morocco, as well as in the forest of the Vosges region in France. At 18, she moved to Paris, studied Art History then entered the IDHEC (now La Fémis) in 1983. Her attraction to genre films stood out in a school that favoured naturalist auteur cinema at that time. It was during these years of study that she met Gaspar Noé, her partner…

We did spot one glaring omission among Hasan’s long list of accomplishments: he had never hosted the Film Independent Spirit Awards. A pitiable oversight, it occurred to us—and Mr. Minhaj agreed. Phone calls were made, and now we’re thrilled to announce (brace yourself for all-caps!) HASAN MINHAJ IS HOSTING THE 2023 SPIRIT AWARDS.

By Laura Allsop

Snøen lavet ned sidelengs i Oslo da jeg møtte Mona Johanne Hoel for å snakke om hennes nye film Natt (2023). Men før vi kommer til den nye filmen, la meg introdusere Mona for dere, i tilfelle dere ikke vet hvem hun er.

Oscar is getting ready to celebrate a milestone birthday: Its 95th!

Annie Lyons discovers determined parents, poetic hugs and Persian spaghetti western music amidst this year’s Sundance Film Festival winners.