Keba Robinson has been releasing music under the Crosslegged moniker since 2011, when she released the album Bad Body Language. In the Bandcamp liner…
Laugh now, but back in the 1950s, the CIA would pay top dollar for any hint of mind control technology, leading to the mass…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Festival Coverage — Sundance 2023, including: Magazine Dreams (Elijah Bynum) by Andrew Dignan // Passages (Ira Sachs) by Sam C.…
Veerle Baetens’ debut feature When It Melts is one of those films that is difficult to discuss without giving the entire thing away, not…
As we move ever further into the streaming age, the question of what exactly constitutes a film continues to blur. No longer tethered to…
The tenets of toxic masculinity are tried and true, displayed in manifold methods of patriarchal oppression, and specifically in conjunction with a process of…
It has been a mere two weeks since a bevy of the Hollywood elite, ranging from Cate Blanchett to Gwyneth Paltrow to Edward Norton,…
When talking about the agonizingly slow death of his career, Orson Welles once claimed, “I began at the top and have been working my…
In his canonical text Hollywood Genres, author and theorist Thomas Schatz proffers a still useful distinction, that being between “the film genre and the…
Hot off the heels of last year’s exceptional Living Torch, Kali Malone has delivered an album version of the previous live exclusive Does Spring…
Spanish-language filmmaker Ruth Caudeli has developed a surprisingly consistent and quantifiable body of work in the past few years. Her films are relatively plotless,…
An unexpectedly maverick prequel/sequel hybrid to one of the biggest mainland Chinese blockbusters of this century, The Wandering Earth II ditches the more rigid…
Electronic music pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto looks back on a long and illustrious career which spans six decades, a variety of collaborators and genres, and…
The death of the mid-budget studio rom-com is a topic that has been commented on and analyzed ad nauseum by countless entertainment websites and…
Sable Island is a thin crescent of land (twenty-six miles long and less than a mile wide) located southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. This…
“Who do you think you’re looking at?… You’d better shut your mouth and stand back,” began GOT the Beat’s debut single, “Step Back,” released…
Running through a field of brightly colored flowers might seem an awfully clichéd image of childhood innocence, but there is some hope that Lukas…
Though still relatively early in his career, initial indications are that arterial spray and pulverized bones are to Brandon Cronenberg’s filmography what unnatural orifices…