Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair, the global film festival, infects The Beverly June 11–17, bringing some of the greatest films from around the world that explore the darkest sides of humanity with some of history’s bleakest moments. Get in loser, we're feeling sorry for ourselves.
Escaped from New York
Behind the scenes with Rob Reiner.
The first 300 times you see this, it’s the funniest thing on earth.
Call us maybe #KristenStewart
Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a failed writer drifting through Medellín in a drunken stupor, lamenting the state of literature in his home country, where he has succumbed to the cliché of the tortured artist, basically one unpaid Substack away from a complete breakdown. #apoet
Rebel Wilson got the role three months earlier than everyone else and we know exactly why.
New Thanksgiving fear unlocked. #samraimi
A lonely gravedigger who smells like corpses finally meets her dream man. That’s it. And it went nuts at Sundance last year. #deadlover
Some of them look like you. Some of them look like us. Pre-Hollywood Hitchcock at his best. #Hitchcock
🌸 SHOWCHELLA 2026 🌸 Year four. A month-long collision of music and film returns with a lineup spanning decades and scenes. Limited runs. Tickets on sale now.
Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, and Richard Brooks on the set of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF.
After making the Spider-Man movies, the great Sam Raimi went back to horror as a reminder to the modern horror factories pumping out five movies a month, that this is how it’s done.
3 Years. 3D. On 3/3.
🎥 Creature from the Black Lagoon (3D)
📆 March 3 | 1 PM
🎥 House of Wax (3D)
📆 March 3 | 6 PM
🎥 Jurassic Park (3D)
📆 March 3 | 8:20 PM
Rough is one word. Economical.
Due to his financial problems and low salary, Dennis Nedry worked nights as a stand up comedian before finally accepting a bribe from Biosyn to smuggle dinosaur embryos off the island. If you understood this you watch the correct amount of movies. #DirtyDancing
This is what Oscar season looks like at The Bev. Come hang and argue with staff about it.
Gloria Swanson appreciation post publish now.
This wasn’t just a hit. It was a win for creators, leverage for the little guy, and a reminder that movies don’t belong to gatekeepers. They belong to the people who make them and the audiences who show up. Anyway, we're playing it so feel free to show up again.
The irony? While coverage fixated on whether this deal was “dangerous,” audiences showed up in force. Sinners became a box-office smash and in doing so, proved that a filmmaker-first model can work at scale.
It was released by Warner Bros, but it was made under radically unorthodox terms that gave Ryan Coogler real ownership, final cut, and long-term rights; a personal deal that challenged traditional studio power dynamics and made some executives openly nervous.
Sinners didn’t get an easy ride. Before audiences even showed up, parts of the trade press framed the film less as a story worth engaging with and more as a “problem” to be debated. Not because it failed, but because of what it dared to change. #sinners
"I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings even, when I hold you in my arms." -a very wise man #aroomwithaview
Press 1 if you think these baddies need Jesus. #jawbreaker
What's your biggest financial flex? #CitizenKane
That is his wife and his mistress. I've said too much. #TheConformist
Never upset a Jack Nicholson character who is demanding something. #JackNicholson
Someone said Udo Kier was the greatest complainer in cinema history. #UdoKier
Peter Hujar, whose images exist in a lineage and dialogue with the work of gay artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe and David Wojnarowicz, is the focus of the latest film by American independent filmmaker Ira Sachs. Here is his incredible work. You're welcome.
