Arts & Culture Review

Film festivals matter more than ever amid content overload, creating irreplaceable platforms for urgency, community, and authentic real-time cultural...

Vivienne Aerts fuses jazz, mindfulness, and psychology by teaching artists to drop self-judgment—techniques she links directly to cognitive behavioral...

Director André Øvredal reveals precise techniques behind Passenger's scares and tension.

• Draws from Spielberg's subtle one-shots to deliver...

Two summer festivals just dropped their 2026 lineups, underscoring the breadth of live music experiences this season.

• Milkshake Festival in...

In her Allen Memorial Art Museum interview, Lin Yan shares how she turns traditional Xuan paper into sculptural works that capture urban memory and...

Boots Riley leaned into indie constraints for his $20M follow-up to Sorry to Bother You, rejecting budget cuts that dilute a film's essence.

• He...

This year's festival spanned icy thrillers, genre mashups, and personal reinventions.

• Standouts included Mungiu's tense Fjord and Zvyagintsev's...

Indonesian filmmaker Riri Riza creates a personal 'mudding board' while discussing how his films draw from nationwide travels to portray both beauty and hardship, favoring non-professional actors for authentic nuance.

Festival Lineups

• 🔥 Portland Horror Film Festival 2026: The 11th annual Portland Horror Film Festival runs June 3-7 at Hollywood Theatre and...

Miguel Vargas is the executive director of the Arts District Los Angeles BID, serving as a central figure in the neighborhood's arts and community landscape.

Film festivals in 2026 reveal striking variety in focus and format.

• Portland Horror Film Festival (June 3-7) offers five days of independent and...

The Joffrey Ballet has promoted Adam Blyde to Associate Artistic Director, a key leadership shift for the company.

Cannes 2026 builds on proven momentum, with Sean Baker's Anora having premiered there in 2024 before its major awards sweep.

An exclusive interview...

At Mountainfilm, Jeremy Seifert explains how Paper Town captures Canton's real-time shock after the mill closure by staying hands-off and letting...

This personal essay weaves a 2019 interview with the Leaving Neverland director into a candid look at Michael Jackson's alleged abuse of two men as...

Cannes Interviews and Reviews

• 🔥 Ron Howard on Avedon: Director Ron Howard discusses his new documentary about photographer Richard Avedon and...

• Charlotte Film Festival returns September 22–27, 2026, at the Independent Picture House for six days of bold independent cinema and filmmaker Q&As
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Christian Mungiu's Fjord unsettles with its portrait of a Norwegian village turning on an Orthodox Romanian family, exposing limits of progressive...

The documentary Ask E. Jean reveals Carroll's decades-long career as a trailblazing journalist, TV host, and advice columnist long before her legal...

Director Jorma Taccone shares his creative process for mashing up multiple genres in the indie film Over Your Dead Body, revealing fresh approaches to contemporary genre filmmaking.