ESSAYS A MANDATED PSYCHOSIS: ON PETER WATKINS’ THE JOURNEY FEATURE BY: Alex Lei INTERVIEWS INTIMACY ON A BIG SCREEN: AN INTERVIEW WITH INDIA DONALDSON…
ESSAYS WORLD WIDE WEB OF DREAD: HORROR FROM THE YEAR OF THE WEB, 30 YEARS LATER FEATURE BY: Mike Thorn CRAFT AS POLITICAL PRAXIS…
ESSAYS A SYNONYM FOR BELIEF: TENET AS FUGUE FEATURE BY: Milo Garner THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES: SEX ON SCREEN AND IT FOLLOWS AT TEN…
ESSAYS JAFAR PANAHI’S POST-ARREST FILMOGRAPHY: DELIBERATING DEFIANCE FEATURE BY: Dhruv Goyal EXPLODING ART WITH ARTIFICE: WES ANDERSON’S ROALD DAHL QUARTET FEATURE BY: Anand Sudha…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Not the Other Way Around: Poor Things, From Novel to Screen by Theo Rollason Jafar Panahi’s Post-Arrest Filmography: Deliberating Defiance by…
The Delinquents Blanket declarations about three-hour-plus runtimes always seem curious when filmmakers employ said length for wildly different purposes. Though the sweeping epic may…
In This Issue: FEATURES: CANNES FILM FESTIVAL: Club Zero (Jessica Hausner) by M.G. Mailloux // Last Summer (Catherine Breillat) by Luke Gorham // Kidnapped (Marco…
In This Issue: FILM REVIEWS: in water (Hong Sang-soo) by Ryan Swen // Afire (Christian Petzold) by Ryan Akler-Bishop // Music (Angela Shanelac) by…
Wisdom Gone Wild In Wisdom Gone Wild, Rea Tajiri returns to the subject of one of her earliest and best-known works: her mother. That…
Tori and Lokita Even by their standards, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Tori and Lokita is a relatively to-the-point affair. Set in an unnamed Belgian…
Emergency The college party movie, usually fronted by a couple smarmy white dudes, gets a challenge with Emergency, a fascinating but ultimately ineffective piece…
2nd Chance Ramin Bahrani, once again, has something to say about the state of the modern-day American Dream. That “something,” per usual for him…
Bitch Ass Slasher flick Bitch Ass opens with the one and only Tony Todd — yes, Candyman himself — as host of a seemingly…
Halfway through our Top 25 Films of 2021 countdown, today with an eclectic crop of films that placed #11–15 in our writer’s poll. All films,…
OK, so things don’t really vanish anymore: even the most limited film release will (most likely, eventually) find its way onto some streaming service…
Moneyboys A tacked-on melancholy shoulders, for the most part, the dramatic weight present in C.B. Yi’s carefully composed and frequently arresting first feature. Moneyboys,…
The Spine of Night The Spine of Night is a whole lot of movie. Despite the film’s relatively straightforward fantasy logline — sorcerer goes…
Gaia There’s an ancient, malevolent force living in the depths of the forest in director Jaco Bouwer’s Gaia, a psychedelic bit of eco-horror that finds…
Black Medusa In a thankless role as one of the most morose femmes fatales in memory, Nour Hajri plays Nada, a (mostly) mute office…