Through a career of empathetic, patient character studies, Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda has developed many running fascinations. Gaps in families, how we fill those, and…
Premiering all the way back during 2024’s festival season, Lorena Alvarado’s Lost Chapters has been a film I’d been looking forward to for quite some…
For over 40 years, Beth B has been a singular force in independent filmmaking. The pioneer of the No Wave filmmaking movement, along with Scott…
It’s been five years since RS Benedict’s essay “Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny” was published by Blood Knife. While Benedict focused on…
For a certain kind of action movie fan, DTV action has long been where the real hidden gems lie. From the long-touted Universal Soldier: Day…
Carla Simón’s parents passed away when she was only six years old. As an adult, she’s spent her filmmaking career unpacking what that’s meant to…
In a fictional New York City, a wolf stalks through the night. This isn’t a typical wolf. She’s not prowling for a kill. This wolf…
Summer camp is a pivotal moment for many a young person. Attendee or counselor, it’s a time away from parents and responsibilities, which allows a…
In 1968, Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol. A vociferous feminist and author of the “S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, Solanas felt that Warhol…
After years spent acting in Mumblecore staples like Gabi on the Roof in July, experimental oddities like Hellaware, and horror anthologies like V/H/S, Sophia Takal…
In the decades during Bush’s Global War on Terror that became Obama’s, then Trump’s, then Biden’s, there was a sense of resistance that permeated among…
The mid-to-late ’90s into the early 2000s felt like a boom period for scrappy, singular, and DIY indie queer cinema. From Go Fish to Watermelon…
For over a decade, many cinephiles’ one touchpoint for the high watermark in martial arts cinema has been The Raid. It’s for good reason. Gareth…
Film festivals can feel like these nebulous, sometimes exploitative, labyrinthine constructs. At their best, however, they should hopefully be a place to foster creation and…
A woman gazes out a window before heading to an event to receive an award. As the pleasantries die down, her smile fades, and she…
While some cinema traditionalists may wring their hands at the prospect of YouTubers taking over the world, we’re at a point where it’s no longer…
Shot on a Sony PD150 handheld, with very few, if any, location permits, and a lead actress change halfway through production, City Wide Fever shouldn’t…
Sometimes you just want to be scared. Is that too much to ask? Not if you’re Damian Mc Carthy. Across three features, the Irish director…
Arnaud Desplechin cares very little for narrative cohesion. In a career filled with elliptical, loose threads as films, Two Pianos finds the director at his…
Few manga adaptations are as alive as Sho Miyake’s Two Seasons, Two Strangers. There are no bright, poppy explosions of color or wacky antics within…
It’s never easy admitting that you’re getting old. As we round the corner into the mid-2020s, an entire generation has to reckon with the idea…