After Jerry Seinfeld and his “What’s the deal?” color commentary on the silliness of the quotidian struck gold in Seinfeld, comedians started to habitually appear…
The stepmother is typically an outsider role in literature. Not so in Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People’s Children. Adapted from Romain Gary’s novel, Your Ticket Is…
A beguiling amalgam of classic opera sensibility, modern dance performance, and Badlands-esque, lovers-on-the-run romantic tragedy, Benjamin Millepied’s Carmen is a deeply idiosyncratic and electrifying film…
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” – Philip K. Dick With his bionic biceps threatening to split his…
It’s hard not to see the Dead Ringers miniseries as yet another domino tumbling on the remake assembly line that turns everything from The Parallax…
Dexter Fletcher’s Ghosted is a high-concept romantic action comedy with movie stars and a decent budget that, were this 2005, would presumably have the potential…
In July 2020, The New York Times published an article by composer and music composition professor Marcos Balter that criticized the notion of calling Joseph…
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant notably marks the first feature that has included the eponymous filmmaker’s name in the title itself, a rather curious development as…
Seijun Suzuki made his name with a string of Nikkatsu-produced genre flicks — The Naked Woman and the Gun (1957), Voice Without a Shadow (1958),…
It’s a glorious time to be a fan of girl groups. UK trio FLO is paying homage to TLC and Aaliyah, and they’re poised to…
As America stands on the brink of an illegitimate Supreme Court abolishing Roe v. Wade, abortion and women’s health rights have once again been thrust…
Director Julius Avery’s The Pope’s Exorcist announces its particular tenor right from the opening scene, as Father Gabriele Amorth (Russell Crowe) arrives by moped to…
The latest installment of the Evil Dead franchise, Evil Dead Rise, opens with a sequence that will be instantly recognizable to longtime fans of the…
The Real Thing isn’t without considerable flaws, but it still allows plenty to percolate across its behemoth runtime. The unspoken commonality of all the projects…
Joaquin Phoenix’s first scene in Beau Is Afraid takes place in his therapist’s office, setting the story in motion while also presenting a roadmap of…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Re-Interrogating the Body: An Interview With Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel by Ryan Akler-Bishop Dead Ringers by Igor Fishman KICKING THE…
Since the late 1960s, readers of a certain age have been discovering and devouring Judy Blume’s books. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Blume’s…
Anthropologist-filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s work dissolves the space between their camera and their subject. Previous films Leviathan and Caniba both treat their respective…
Art is subjective, as is the concept of firsts. Hilma af Klint can be classed as the first abstract painter, years before the more widely…
The hardest working man in show business, otherwise known as John Swab, is back with One Day as a Lion, the director’s third feature of…
Little Richard, born Richard Wayne Penniman, is a complicated figure in rock ‘n’ roll history not just because of the way his legacy as perhaps…