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"Read our Spring 2026 issue, featuring David Lowery and Chloé Zhao in conversation on Mother Mary, Radu Jude on Kontinental '25, Boots Riley on I Love Boosters, and more..."

"In Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex (2026), a wallflower Gen Z gallery assistant, Elliot (Cooper Hoffman), enters into a dom-sub relationship with his much older boss, art-world provocateur Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde). For Elliot, intimacy is a gateway to self-exploration, and through messy experience, he grows more attuned to his own curiosities, likes, and dislikes. He also discovers that good sex is a dialogue—and that Erika, whose persona as a sexual explorer directly feeds her art, is maybe not the best role model for healthy consent practices.These themes of communication are central to the art and craft of intimacy coordination. Cultural debates around screen intimacy tend to question whether sex scenes move the plot forward on a very utilitarian level,…  Read more"

"I never got to meet Sam Neill, but I thought of him as a neighbor for a very specific reason: like me, he had sat in the front row to watch a movie at the Eglinton Theatre. There he is as cynical insurance investigator turned wild-eyed paranoiac John Trent at the end of In the Mouth of Madness (1994), cheerfully chowing down on some popcorn as he enjoys a 35mm print of what will seemingly be the last movie ever screened, in Toronto or anywhere else. Screenshots from that John Carpenter sequence kept popping up on my timeline in the hours following Neill’s death last week at the age of 78, and my melancholy at losing one of the great modern movie actors was tempered…  Read more"

"I first heard about the reopening of the community-run cinema La Clef shortly after arriving in Paris this January. A friend, an American lecturer at the Sorbonne, took me there and proudly pointed at the two-story building with a signature key (clef) on its facade. “Do you know they used to illegally squat in the cinema for more than two years?” she asked. Founded in 1973 in Paris’s Latin Quarter, La Clef became known for championing independent and political films underrepresented in the commercial mainstream. After its owners announced plans to sell the building and closed the venue in 2018, a collective of cinephiles, filmmakers, and activists occupied the cinema for more than two years, organizing daily pay-what-you-can screenings while fighting to…  Read more"

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