30 years ago, Ngozi Onwurah made history by becoming the first Black female filmmaker in Britain to have a film released theatrically. As she’ll tell…
In this dispatch: Colony, Someone\’s…
Third verse, same as the first. Yeon Sang-ho’s 2016 rage-zombie opus Train to Busan was a breakout it, largely because of its relentless pace and…
At best, Wiebke von Carolsfeld’s Someone’s Daughter can be described as well-intentioned. Critically, however, it is existentially foolhardy and morally naive. Carrying a juvenile sort…
In Mark H. Rapaport’s Godhead, the world would seem to start and end between the walls of the church. In fact, this specific church commands…
Kasper Kalle’s No Rest for the Wicked is, on the face of it, dark and grim; apt, for a vampire horror with Gothic sensibilities. The film,…
Corpus opens tantalizingly, with a modeling session in which apparently inexperienced Wren (Nuha Jes Izman) is being photographed by veteran Billie (Lily Cowles). This being…
Watching Peter Hengl’s mid-length film The Fated Hour feels like handling a delicate porcelain doll: a precious encounter with a time-worn magic. The film, commissioned…
It seems like there are only two certain things nowadays: death and new Spider-Man movies. Audiences apparently just love the character, so much so that…
Descriptors like “off-kilter” evoke something crooked, unbalanced, slanted, strange. These words are all, more or less, synonymous with the original meaning of the term “queer.”…
If you haven’t heard, Gen Z isn’t getting laid. Sex — who’s having it, and more importantly, who’s not — is paramount in Gregg Araki’s…
Turning 30 fucking sucks. Too old to be considered young, yet too young to have everything figured out (as if anyone ever really has it…
Yashaddai Owens’ debut feature Jimmy, though it follows James Baldwin at a pivotal moment in his life, cannot accurately be called a biopic. Rather, in…
Sometimes all you want out of a movie is a really, really huge guy tearing smaller guys apart with his bare hands. Alan Ritchson has…
18 years after the end of Avatar: The Last Airbender and 12 years after the conclusion of its sequel series, The Legend of Korra, creators…
July marks the beginning of the second half of 2026, and Killer Shark Movies have been seemingly omnipresent all year, arriving in cinemas and on…
Does ill-discipline equal rebelliousness? If so, then Carolina Cavalli’s The Kidnapping of Arabella is already one of the best films of the year. Cavalli, who…
There isn’t a filmmaker out there quite like Danielle Arbid. The French-Lebanese director has crafted films about war, family, isolation, and the perils of love…
In this dispatch: Our Effed Up World…
Australian writer-director Alice Maio Mackay is not quite 22 years old, and now has seven feature-length productions under her belt. But there’s often a downside…
Over 40 years and as many movies into his career, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has finally made his first samurai film. Maybe it was the looming shadow…