Some action movies are best watched in the afternoon, the way they used to be shown on American television in the days before infomercials took…
It isn’t hard to believe that writer-director Kyra Elise Gardner’s Living with Chucky — a feature-length documentary about the venerable horror film series Child’s Play…
In case you couldn’t tell from the big goofy afro, pleasant demeanor, and paintbrush, the character of Carl Nargle in Brit Mcadams’ Paint, played by…
By the time he helmed Silver Lode in 1954, Allan Dwan had been directing films for four decades, trying his hand at every genre one…
Let’s say you wanted to define the dramatic stakes in Ben Affleck’s new, based-on-a-true-story movie Air. Start with the premise: it’s 1984, and Nike executive…
Though Travis Wilkerson is an American filmmaker, his subjects, methods, and tone mirror what’s called Third Cinema — politically charged movies made outside the Hollywood…
Despite the steady repetition of themes that define Kelly Reichardt’s filmography (alienation, class, gender, the American West), her output has remained surprisingly unpredictable moving from…
Saint-Narcisse isn’t LaBruce’s most audacious film, but it reflects a new, thoughtful instance of his particular audacity. There is surely more space in Hollywood for queer…
Let’s just get this out of the way: the most honest way to quantify Alex Lehmann’s Acidman is as thoroughly mid. The film stars Dianna…
Film boasts a rich history of dance. From the halcyon, mid-century years of studio musicals all the way to the early-aughts onslaught of middling, tween-demo’d…
It has been 30 years since audiences were treated to a big-screen iteration of the beloved Nintendo video game series Super Mario Bros., with Bob…
“Adapted” from Andreas Malm’s 2021 climate change manifesto of the same name, Daniel Goldhaber’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline shoots out of the gate…
Umut Subaşı’s debut feature, Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster, is a curious beast. In many regards, it’s quite accomplished, and displays some very decisive stylistic…
Even for those who haven’t seen Alena Lodkina’s first feature, 2017’s Strange Colours, given the quality of her new film, Petrol, it should be abundantly…
“Dostoyevsky Iranian style,” reads one positive review of Leila’s Brothers, the third feature film by Saeed Roustaee, and in a way that writer has a…
In This Issue: FEATURES: NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2023: Leila’s Brothers (Saeed Roustaee) by Michael Sicinski // Maputo Nakuzandza (Ariadine Zampaulo) by Daniel Gorman // Tótem (Lila Avilés) by Esmé…
Argentinian filmmaker Melisa Liebenthal’s 2019 short film, Aquí y Allá (“Here and There”), utilized Google Earth, in-film, to pinpoint the exact location where it was…
Ariadine Zampaulo’s Maputo Nakuzandza begins with a distressingly bleak sequence: a group of boys approach an open car and peer inside, commenting on an unseen…
Giraffe is often beautiful, but strikes an imbalance between its form and its flagging emotional core. Frequently beautiful but frustratingly opaque, Anna Sofia Hartmann’s Giraffe plays…
Reinventing the superhero genre often entails energizing it, usually with piled-on camp (as with Troma Entertainment’s The Toxic Avenger and, more recently, Marvel’s Deadpool) or…
On a personal note, Rye Lane couldn’t have come at a more significant time. I only recently moved away from South London, and have started…