When 20-something pianist Donna (Dana Namerode) receives a diagnosis of bone cancer in her hand, she explores different avenues for physical and mental health treatment,…
In Werner Herzog’s latest, Theater of Thought, the director largely known in his documentary work for discursive flights of wonderful pontification takes an American road…
When Don (Shea Whigham) gets out of prison, the job he had thought was all set up for him upon release falls through and he’s…
In 1973’s The Day of The Jackal, adapted from the novel by Frederick Forsyth, an English assassin is hired by the Far Right OAS in…
After a prologue of ghostly nightmares followed by a nerve-racking dinner with friends, Anne (Synnove Karlsen), who is on a break with her abusive partner…
In animator Jérémy Clapin’s live-action feature debut Meanwhile on Earth, Elsa (Megan Northam), sister of astronaut Franck (depicted by Yoan Germain Le mat, voiced by…
Revolving Rounds In Johann Lurf’s thrilling 2019 film Cavalcade, a 35mm camera records an apparent long take of a six-foot phenakistoscope water wheel constructed by…
In Caddo Lake’s hectic opening moments, Paris (Dylan O’Brien) fails to save his mother, trapped underwater in a car she has driven off a bridge…
Coming 12 years after the first V/H/S, V/H/S/Beyond continues the well-established formula of the franchise: anthologized, supposedly found footage horror shorts, threaded together with a…
The act of remaking such a recent film as Christian Tafdrup’s Speak No Evil (2022), one more respectively recent than The Departed and Vanilla Sky’s…
From HAL’s unrelenting utilitarianism to Demon Seed’s Proteus longing for physical form beyond its servers to Margeaux’s desire to understand humans completely by murdering them…
Marx’s vampires and specters; the oil crisis, Vietnam War, and industrializing slaughterhouses as the background for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre; the commodification of the spectacularly…