Heavy music polyglots Oozing Wound have made their name as thrash metal jokesters, the trio’s penchant for titles ranging from the humorously prosaic (“Everyone…
With all the various traumas and psychological afflictions on which character-driven horror has touched in recent years, it was only a matter of time…
In the course of that rich history of films about con artists, the appeal has almost always been to watch largely amoral professionals execute…
An ominous POV shot that wanders around a loud and joyful wedding opens Let It Be Morning, although we’re not, as it turns out,…
A Type A careerist finds her life spinning out of control after the man she’s long harbored feelings for announces his intentions of marrying…
The post-independence era was a turbulent one for the small island nation of Jamaica. Having gained freedom from the British in 1962, the following…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Titanic: Courting Disaster by Esmé Holden // The 2023 Grammy Awards: Racism, Rockism, and Plain Predictability by Nick Seip Kicking the…
There’s a contradiction at the heart of James Cameron’s work, and the reason he’s such a quintessential Hollywood figure is because of, not despite,…
“What are your plans for Act Three?” asks one character of Channing Tatum’s Mike about the show he’s directing in Magic Mike’s Last Dance,…
Netflix’s new romantic comedy Your Place or Mine got a shot in the arm publicity-wise this past week when photos from its premiere went…
Israeli filmmaker Hadas Ben Aroya’s second feature film, All Eyes Off Me, offers a naturalistic glimpse into Israel’s contemporary youth culture as it shifts…
“I would do anything for my children,” says Jess (Michelle Monaghan), a phrase she repeats like a mantra that gradually takes on a more…
Country music has a dark history of songs about killing your lover. Men want to kill their wives for cheating. Women want to kill…
Skinner Myers’ feature debut is a serpentine construct, a vision of subjectivity that embraces both virtuousness and transgression, emphatic in its depiction of self-destruction.…
For many, M. Night Shyamalan has never come out from under the shadow of his mid-career flop, the seven-year stretch between 2006 and 2013…
When it comes to metaphorical expressions, perhaps no other narrative and visual motif can provide a sense of boundless liberation and spiritual freedom as…
Let it be said that indie writer-director John Swab is currently the hardest working man in show business, with his second film of the…
An auteurist’s dream, the films of David Cronenberg have continued to express their creator’s psychosexual pet themes for half a century now, nearly without…