🍿 NOW IN CINEMAS
A Yale ethics professor finds herself caught in a moral and personal crisis after a colleague is accused of misconduct in Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt. Julia Roberts stars as the conflicted academic, navigating questions of power, privilege, and accountability, while Michael Stuhlbarg, Andrew Garfield, and Ayo Edebiri round out the principal cast.
Guadagnino uses the narrative and stylistic choices to explore moral ambiguity and the fraught dynamics between teacher, student, and colleague, leaving audiences to wrestle with the film’s provocative themes. The Prague Reporter notes that the film features “arresting” performances, particularly from Roberts, even as its murky visuals, cluttered framing, and discordant score create an unsettling tone.
Years after surviving The Grabber, Finney and his sister Gwen remain haunted by past trauma in The Black Phone 2. Directed by Scott Derrickson, the sequel follows the siblings as they encounter new supernatural terrors while volunteering at a winter camp in the snow-covered Colorado Mountains. Ethan Hawke returns as the menacing Grabber, now a Freddy Krueger-like figure.
The Prague Reporter writes that “while Black Phone 2 doesn’t fully capture the grounded terror of its predecessor, it expands its mythology in chilling new ways, turning trauma and memory into literal ghosts that refuse to rest.”
The 25th anniversary re-release of Kevin Smith’s cult classic Dogma is now playing in limited engagements in Czech cinemas, presenting the cult classic in remastered 4K for a new generation of viewers. The film follows banished angels played by Ben Affleck Matt Damon as they attempt to exploit a loophole to return to Heaven.
Smith reflects that Dogma “was the biggest, riskiest, most ambitious movie I’d made at the time and the one I’m still asked about most […] Revisiting it 25 years later, I am overwhelmed by the relevance of its questions and the courage of its cast.”
📺 NEW TO STREAMING
Now streaming on Apple TV+, Mr. Scorsese offers a rare, deeply personal portrait of one of cinema’s greatest living directors. Across five episodes directed by Rebecca Miller, the series traces Martin Scorsese’s life from his childhood in New York’s Little Italy to his near-fatal drug spiral in the 1970s and his artistic rebirth with Raging Bull.
Interviewees include Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Thelma Schoonmaker, Paul Schrader, and many more. According to BBC Culture, Miller’s series is “essential viewing”—a work that “adds a fresh layer to a life story that could be an epic film in itself.”
🇨🇿 Czech Films in Focus
After premiering at this year’s Karlovy Vary film fest and opening in cinemas over the summer, the Czech drama Broken Voices (Sbormistr) is now streaming on Netflix. The feature from director Ondřej Provazník draws inspiration from the real-life Bambini di Praga case, exploring how systemic abuse in a Czech girls’ choir could persist for years unseen.
Broken Voices was one of three titles shortlisted for Czechia’s submission to the 2026 Academy Awards, but it was ultimately not selected following controversy surrounding its sensitive subject matter. The Prague Reporter calls it “a deeply unsettling Czech drama […] a quiet, harrowing film that refuses to offer easy closure—only expose an unsettling and rarely-discussed truth.”