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First ShowingCinemaLizzy Caplan & Lucy DeVito in Dark Comedy Thriller 'Drag' Film Trailer "I think our only option is to drag you out of here." Briarcliff Entertainment has revealed the official trailer for the upcoming dark comedy thriller titled Drag , another January 2027 release…

First ShowingCinemaFirst Look Teaser for 'Criminal' Series w/ Adria Arjona & Emilia Clarke "Every single thing from this point on is how I say it is." Prime Video revealed a first look teaser trailer for an enticing new series coming up in January 2027 called Criminal , not to be confused…

First ShowingCinemaYamazaki's 'Godzilla Minus Zero' Final Gargantuan Opening Day Trailer "Godzilla lives, resuscitated." Now playing in theaters worldwide! Everyone's favorite Kaiju is back for more mayhem in Japan.

First ShowingCinemaNatalie Portman & Jenna Ortega in Art Comedy 'The Gallerist' Trailer "It drives a stake through the very heart of the patriarchy." Roadside Attr. has finally revealed an official trailer for the indie art world comedy film titled The Gallerist , set for release…

First ShowingCinemaOfficial Trailer for Burstein's 'The Boy Who Stole Billions?' FTX Docu "The numbers just keep growing without that much going towards charity." Prime Video has debuted the official trailer for a docu series titled The Boy Who Stole Billions?

First ShowingCinemaTeo Yoo & Isabel May in Futuristic Action Thriller 'Karoshi' Full Trailer "Every empire fears rebellion." Whoa – where did this come from?! Lionsgate has revealed the first official trailer for a sci-fi action thriller titled Karoshi , set in a near-future Manhattan.

First ShowingCinemaCameron Diaz & Mark Duplass in 'Bad Day' Fun Action Comedy Trailer "My Mom might be a badass?!" "You need to stop her!" Netflix has revealed an official trailer for an action comedy called Bad Day , heading for streaming directly starting in December .

First ShowingCinemaFirst Trailer for 'Tender Loving Care' with Kate O'Flynn & Marion Bailey "We're gonna be okay!" Bleecker Street has revealed the official trailer for the film Tender Loving Care , the latest and final film from beloved British filmmaker Mike Leigh.

First ShowingCinemaFunny Trailer for 'A Proud Family Wizmas' Stop-Motion X-Mas Special "Wizmas-Christmas, the gifts keep comin'!" Disney+ has revealed an official trailer for an animated holiday special coming up this month titled A Proud Family Wizmas , ready for streaming soon.

First ShowingCinemaFinal Freaky Trailer for Maika Monroe's 'Victorian Psycho' Horror Film "Are you the devil under my bed?" "What a wild imagination!" Bleecker Street unveiled one final official trailer for Victorian Psycho , an extra fun & extra wicked Victorian era horror comedy…

First ShowingCinemaGugu Mbatha-Raw in Nuclear Naval Thriller 'Trinity' Series Full Trailer "We're sleep-walking into World War III! Why don't any of you see that?" Netflix has revealed the intense first official trailer for a new military thriller series titled Trinity , ready to launch…

First ShowingCinemaNicolas Cage Returns in Legacy Sequel 'Lords of War' Teaser Trailer "Can we at least talk about why you want to kill me?" Vertical has revealed their first teaser trailer for the legacy sequel Lords of War , a long-awaited follow-up to the Nicolas Cage cult classic…

First ShowingCinemaWhen Birds Trying Parenting in 'The Angry Birds Movie 3' Trailer #2 "Parenting never stops..." "Nope! It's how you get to see them soar." Ha. Good one! Paramount Pictures has revealed a second trailer for animation sequel The Angry Birds Movie 3 , landing in theaters…

First ShowingCinemaFunny Making Of Featurette for 'Violent Night 2' Santa Action Comedy "I've lost my powers! The magic left me high and dry..." How will he ever get off his own Naughty List now?

First ShowingCinemaMust See Trailer for Japan's 'Rex: A Dinosaur's Story' US Re-Release Meet Rex! 練 Kani Releasing has unveiled a new official US trailer for the remastered & restored re-release of a long lost Japanese monster movie cult classic called Rex: A Dinosaur's Story - REX…

First ShowingCinemaRevenge Thriller Film 'After the Silence' Trailer Feat. Dónall Ó Héalaí "Do we have a problem ehre?" Well Go USA has revealed the official trailer for an intriguing revenge thriller titled After the Silence , marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Michael…

First ShowingCinemaNew Trailer for 'Secret Service' Series w/ Gemma Arterton & Rafe Spall "They've got a spy in the top of the British political system." MGM+ debuted their own official trailer for a streaming series from the UK titled Secret Service , a stale title for another sneaky…

First ShowingCinemaLéa Seydoux & Vincent Lindon in Funny Film 'The Second Act' Trailer "Everything revolves around my character, Florence." Kino Lorber debuted their official US trailer for the film The Second Act , one of the recent creations from ingenious French filmmaker Quentin…

First ShowingCinemaDystopian Sci-Fi Japanese Gameshow Thriller 'Quiztopia' Full Trailer "Japan's civility will be tested. The curtain rises on Japan's delirious wonderland." So this is Japan's Squid Game ?

First ShowingCinemaNew Release Date Teaser for 'Blue Eye Samurai' Season 2 Animation "Three years ago, we met Mizu. Next stop: London." ⚔️ Netflix revealed a new promo for the next season of Blue Eye Samurai , the badass animated story following the samurai Mizu on her path of…

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo