The year 2025 delivered a wealth of exceptional filmmaking, with independent movies securing significant critical and audience acclaim despite not always having the marketing might of blockbusters.

When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance. Donald Trump issues new ...

Welcome to Atropia, a fake nation created by the U.S. military to train soldiers before their deployment. These simulated towns—built by Hollywood set designers—are brought to life by role players ...

Frank Ripploh: Schoolteacher by day, cruising aficionado by night, and a full-time provocateur who left an indelible mark on queer cinema. And that’s due in large part to his groundbreaking 1980 ...

Dailymotion, the video platform owned by Canal+, has acquired Archery, the company responsible for developing Mojo, the AI-assisted video creation and editing app that has been downloaded more than 50 ...

Deserved or not, French cinema has a reputation for being a little racy. From classics like “Belle de Jour” to controversial modern films like “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” French film has consistently ...

Before watching “April,” the new movie from the Georgian director and screenwriter Dea Kulumbegashvili, I had seen only one other fictional film that featured a real childbirth. It was “Staying ...

Sex scenes in movies are often an integral part of cinema that can bring a realistic feel to the story, its characters and emotions. Actors are known for giving their all to bring a character to life, ...

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival kicks off this week in Park City, Utah, launching the first major festival of the year and one of the biggest markets for film. Sundance is, of course, home to a slew ...

Caligula is considered one of the worst films ever made. Released in 1980, the intended historical epic was reduced to the narrative nonsense full of unsimulated sex scenes and random extreme violence ...