Is This Thing On? IS THIS THING ON? (2025) Starring Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Andra Day, Bradley Cooper, Amy Sedaris, Sean Hayes, Christine Ebersole, Ciarán Hinds, Scott Icenogle, Chloe Radcliffe, Jordan Jensen, Peyton Manning, Reggie Conquest, James Tom, Gabe Fazio, Blake Kane, Calvin Knegten, Derek Gaines, Matt Richards, Dylan Bickel, Laila Boccella, Jonathan Burke and Reggie Conquest. Screenplay by Bradley Cooper and Will Arnett & Mark Chappell. Directed by Bradley Cooper.

Wake Up Dead Man - A Knives Out Mystery WAKE UP DEAD MAN – A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (2025) Starring Daniel Craig, Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church,   Jeffrey Wright, Annie Hamilton, James Faulkner, Bridget Everett, Noah Segan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jamie Karitzis, Kit Burden, Gavin Spokes, Paul Hilton, Ray Bolton and Nicola Hughes. Screenplay by  Rian Johnson. Di

Hamnet HAMNET (2025) Starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, David Wilmot, Jacobi Jupe, Olivia Lynes, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Freya Hannan-Mills, Dainton Anderson, Elliot Baxter, Noah Jupe, El Simons, Louisa Harland, Jack Shalloo, Sam Woolf, Hera Gibson, Zac Wishart, James Lintern, Justine Mitchell, Eva Wishart, Effie Linnen, Faith Delaney and Smylie Bradwell. Screenplay by  Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell. Directed by Chloé Zhao. Distributed by Focus Fea

Rental Family RENTAL FAMILY (2025) Starring Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Shannon Mahina Gorman, Akira Emoto, Shino Shinozaki, Paolo Andrea Di Pietro, Shinji Ozeki, Takao Kin, Risa Kameda, Yuma Sonan, Kana Kitty, Gan Furukawa, Yuji Komatsu, Ryoko Osada, Helen Sadler, Kaoru Mizuki, Shohei Uno, Sonoe Mizoguchi, Keiji Yamashita, Bun Kimura, Yuki Kimura and Tsutomu Osabe. Screenplay by  Hikari & Stephen Blahut. Directed by Hikari. Distributed by Searchlight Pictur

Jay Kelly JAY KELLY (2025) Starring George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Grace Edwards, Stacy Keach, Jim Broadbent, Patrick Wilson, Eve Hewson, Greta Gerwig, Charlie Rowe, Louis Partridge, Alba Rohrwacher, Josh Hamilton, Lenny Henry, Emily Mortimer, Nicôle Lecky, Thaddea Graham, Isla Fisher, Jamie Demetriou, Giovanni Esposito and Noah Baumbach. Screenplay by Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer. Directed by Noah Baumbach. Distributed by Netflix. 1

Frankenstein FRANKENSTEIN (2025) Starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Charles Dance, Lauren Collins, Sofia Galasso, Ralph Ineson, Burn Gorman, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Kyle Gatehouse, Joachim Fjelstrup, Peter Millard, Peter Mcneill, Sean Sullivan, Stuart Hughes, Gord Rand, Kenton Craig, Val Ovtcharov and Anders Yates. Screenplay by  Guillermo del Toro. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Distributed by Netflix. 150

Nuremberg NUREMBERG (2025) Starring Rami Malek, Russell Crowe, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark O'Brien, Colin Hanks, Wrenn Schmidt, Lydia Peckham, Richard E. Grant, Michael Shannon, Lotte Verbeek, Andreas Pietschmann, Steven Pacey, Paul Antony-Barber, Jeremy Wheeler, Wolfgang Cerny, Dan Cade, Donald Sage Mackay, Dieter Riesle, Wayne Brett, Mesterházy Gyula and Sam Newman. Screenplay by James Vanderbilt. Directed by James Vanderbilt. Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. 148

Train Dreams TRAIN DREAMS (2025) Starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Clifton Collins Jr., Kerry Condon, William H. Macy, Chuck Tucker, Rob Price, Paul Schneider, John Diehl, Alfred Hsing, Nathaniel Arcand, Johnny Arnoux, David Olsen, John Patrick Lowrie, Brandon Lindsay, Eric Ray Anderson, Beau Charles, Rick Rivera, Taylor McKinley, Ashton Singer, Zoe Rose Short and the voice of Will Patton. Screenplay by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar. Directed by Clint Bentley. Distribut

Bugonia BUGONIA (2025) Starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone, J. Carmen Galindez Barrera, Marc T. Lewis, Vanessa Eng, Cedric Dumornay, Charita 'Momma Cherri' Jones, Fredricka Whitfield, Rafael Lopez Bravo, Yaisa, Teneisha Ellis, Roger Carvalho, Atsushi Nishijima, Janlyn Mallis Bales, Andy Blackburn, Stella Bizirtsaki and Diana Duah. Screenplay by Will Tracy. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Distributed by Focus Features. 118 minute

Jay McCarrol and Matt Johnson at the Philadelphia Film Festival showing of "Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie." Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie the Interview By Jay S. Jacobs It’s a tale as old as time. Two guys start a band. They are enthusiastic about the project and sure that stardom lurks ahead. They even set a goal of their ideal venue – the storied Toronto rock club The Rivoli.   Unfortunately, they are a little naïve in the ways of

Primate PRIMATE (2025) Starring Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, Troy Kotsur, Victoria Wyant, Gia Hunter, Benjamin Cheng, Charlie Mann, Tienne Simon, Miguel Torres Umba, Kae Alexander, Amina Abdi, Albert Magashi, Kevin McNally, Stuart Whelan, Amina Abdi and Kieran Deane. Screenplay by  Johannes Roberts and Ernest Riera. Directed by Johannes Roberts. Distributed by Paramount Pictures. 89 minutes. Rated R. Screened at the 2025 Philadelphia Film Festival. If you ever thought

Blue Moon BLUE MOON (2025) Starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott, Jonah Lees, Rifkin Simon Delaney, Cillian Sullivan, Patrick Kennedy, John Doran, Anne Brogan,   Giles Surridge, Brian Briggs, Caitríona Ennis, Elaine O'Dwyer, Aisling O'Mara, David Rawle, Ray Weafer, Ian Dillon and Daniel Mick Ryan. Screenplay by Robert Kaplow. Directed by Richard Linklater. Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. 100 minutes. Rated R. Screened at the 2025 Philade

Case 137 (Dossier 137) CASE 137 (DOSSIER 137) (2025) Starring Léa Drucker, Jonathan Turnbull, Mathilde Roehrich, Guslagie Malanda, Stanislas Merhar, Sandra Colombo, Valentin Campagne, Mathilde Riu, Côme Péronnet, Solàn Machado-Graner, Théo Costa-Marini, Théo Navarro-Mussy and Florence Viala. Screenplay by Dominik Moll and Gilles Marchand. Directed by Dominik Moll. Distributed by Haut et Court. 115 minutes. Not Rated. Screened at the 2025 Philadelphia Film Festival. It is kind

Hedda HEDDA (2025) Starring Tessa Thompson, Imogen Poots, Tom Bateman, Nicholas Pinnock, Nina Hoss, Kathryn Hunter, Finbar Lynch, Mirren Mack, Jamael Westman, Saffron Hocking, Finbar Lynch, Mirren Mack, Jamael Westman, Jack Barry, Michelle Crane, Sam Hoare, Stacey Gough, Mark Oosterveen, Sonya Orlov, Nicholas Bishop, Milly Paris and Jack Sherlock. Screenplay by  Nia DaCosta. Directed by Nia DaCosta. Distributed by Amazon MGM Studios. 107 minutes. Rated R. Screened at the 2025

Fabien Frankel, Emilia Jones and Tom Pelphrey at the Philadelphia Film Festival screening of the season finale of "Task." Tom Pelphrey, Emilia Jones, Fabien Frankel and Brad Inglesby Taken to Task By Jay S. Jacobs So how does a TV show come together? “It always starts with characters,” Brad Inglesby explained to me on the red carpet at the Philadelphia Film Festival, where the season finale of his acclaimed TV series Task was going to be screened a few hours before its HBO d

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Ian Kimble and Ruby Modine at the Philadelphia Film Festival Premiere of "Dead Giveaway." Ruby Modine & Ian Kimble It’s Just a Dead Giveaway by Jay S. Jacobs Don’t you hate it when this happens? You’re out on a Friday night. You hit a few bars, and maybe a party. You have a bit too much to drink. Or maybe a lot too much to drink. Or maybe you literally recreate Marion Ravenwood’s shots-drinking contest scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.  You wake up the next morning, still ful

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