SXSW London’s Head of Screen on Picking From Thousands of Films With an Int’l and Genre Lens and That ‘Get Jiro!’ Get

SXSW London’s Head of Screen on Picking From Thousands of Films With an Int’l and Genre Lens and That ‘Get Jiro!’ Get

The second edition of SXSW London is nearly upon us, with Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day, starring Haley Bennett, Jack Whitehall, Lily Allen, Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Sally Phillips, Misia Butler and Elyas M’Barek, opening the 2026 Screen Festival on Monday, June 1. The rom-com from director Tina Gharavi and screenwriter Justine Waddell is an adaptation of…

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You’re Finally Going to Be Able to Buy That ‘Heated Rivalry’ Fleece Jacket — for a Good Cause

You’re Finally Going to Be Able to Buy That ‘Heated Rivalry’ Fleece Jacket — for a Good Cause

Just in time for those cold Canadian summer nights, Heated Rivalry’s iconic Team Canada fleece jacket is finally available to preorder. The limited-edition jacket — inspired by the one worn by Hudson Williams’ character Shane Hollander in the queer hockey romance series — will be available for pre-order on June 3, Heated Rivalry producer Accent…

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Hollywood Ghosts the Croisette, Queer Cinema Owns It and AI Crashes the Party: Five Takeaways From Cannes 2026

Hollywood Ghosts the Croisette, Queer Cinema Owns It and AI Crashes the Party: Five Takeaways From Cannes 2026

Quiet on the surface, Cannes 2026 exposed the fault lines reshaping cinema — from the evolving indie ecosystem and the studios’ festival retreat to the industry’s uneasy embrace of AI. Published on May 23, 2026 (L to R): Competition favorite ‘The Black Ball,’ ‘Club Kid’ director Jordan Firstsman, Vin Diesel at ‘The Fast and The…

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Cannes Winners Unveiled (Updating Live)

Cannes Winners Unveiled (Updating Live)

The closing ceremony of the 79th Cannes Film Festival has begun in the Grand Théâtre Lumière, where the jury will announced the winners of this year’s event, including the Palme d’Or. You can watch the ceremony live on TikTok Brut or, inside France, on public channel France 2. This year’s jury is headed by South…

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Co-opting the “Hollywood Machine to Tell Different Kinds of Stories”: Liam Young on His Immersive Experience ‘In Other Worlds’

Co-opting the “Hollywood Machine to Tell Different Kinds of Stories”: Liam Young on His Immersive Experience ‘In Other Worlds’

Welcome to a different kind of science fiction experience! Embark on a journey through six possible future worlds and engage with films, audio stories and soundscapes, installations and projections, costumes and tapestries, movie miniatures and speculative artefacts. This is In Other Worlds, an immersive experience created by designer, director, and producer Liam Young (Planet City),…

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