1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (302+ words) First, the BAIT: a weird genre pick, and why we’re exploring its specific niche right now. Then, the BITE: a spoiler-filled answer to the all-important question, “Is this old cult film actually worth recommending?” Note: This is the finale of…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (446+ words) IndieWire Marvel Builds Out Its ‘X-Men’ with Adam Driver, Inde Naverette, Christopher Abbott, and More On Friday, August 24, President of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige invited director Jake Schreier onstage at the Disney Entertainment Showcase Panel at D23 to finally announce…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1181+ words) IndieWire As Superhero Movies Get Blander, Animated Comic Book Adaptations Have Gotten More Interesting “Supergirl,” the second film in James Gunn’s developing DCU and one of the biggest box office bombs of an otherwise strong year for…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (334+ words) [Editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers for “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma”] There are probably a lot of IndieWire readers (and writers) who can relate to the desire to get an A+ on the test of whatever…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (415+ words) IndieWire Film Independent Scores Its Biggest Grant Ever — Exclusive There’s a new indie czar in town. Quietly, since April 2026, when he was appointed the president of Film Independent after an exhaustive search, Colombia-born ex-KCET executive Juan Devis has…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (853+ words) IndieWire Why the Podracing Sequence in ‘The Phantom Menace’ Epitomizes the Very Best of What Prequels Can Be IndieWire’s desks are arranged as part of an open-plan office, and sometimes our fine colleagues at [redacted non-entertainment PMC brand]…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (314+ words) “We cannot overemphasize how damaging the current timeline for the trial … is to an already struggling industry,” the letter reads. There’s real urgency here, but not without some important caveats. Let’s set aside whether all of these things would be…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (301+ words) The result is a documentary that implicitly honors these incredible doctors, but more acutely leverages their plight to address the numbing exasperation that such an atrocity is designed to instill among otherwise good people. It’s a documentary premised on the…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (807+ words) IndieWire ‘The Bend in the River’ Review: A Group of Onetime Nudists Get (Mostly) Better with Age At the beginning of “The Bend in the River,” a simple title card lays out director Robb Moss‘ premise for…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (487+ words) The one demand Paramount pushed back on, but ultimately swallowed, was Coppola’s proposed title: “The Godfather Part II.” Ironically, 16 years later, Paramount once again rejected Coppola’s proposed title, “The Death of Michael Corleone” — this time, the studio insisted it had…...