Big plans: the latest from Ridley Scott, trailblazing auteur–turned–late-career journeyman, is an epic biopic of the war-mongering emperor that turns out to be a bit weirder than it initially seems
Perchance to dream: a satire on celebrity and cancel culture, Kristoffer Borgli’s new Nicholas Cage–vehicle, Dream Scenario, treads the thin line between critique and caricature
Material history: Dominik Graf discusses his latest documentary, an investigation of the numerous German writers and artists who collaborated (often quietly) with the Nazi regime
How Soon Is Now? The Killer, David Fincher’s latest entry in the canon of cinema du sociopath is a sleek, meticulously assembled film lives up to its punny tagline: “Execution Is Everything.”
Boo: premised on illusion and promising endless reanimation, cinema is often called the ghostliest of mediums, haunted by phantoms since its beginnings
A dog’s life: a fascinating (and frightening) retrospective at this year’s Viennale focused on violent genre films produced in Austria in the 1980s, exemplified by Gerald Kargl’s controversial 1983 serial-killer flick, Angst
Pod life: horror experts Nicholas Russell and Clyde Folley join for our annual fearfest, this time focusing on Abel Ferrara’s 1993 remake, Body Snatchers, and Michael Powell’s classic, Peeping Tom
Shutter speed: a new series at the Museum of Modern Art showcases a staggering range of Iranian films made before the revolution of 1979, including including films by Bahram Beyzaie, Amir Naderi, and Masoud Kimiai
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