Very few actors elevate low-budget action cinema like Milla Jovovich, who is front and center in all of the marketing of Brad Anderson’s latest genre…
Director Isao Yukisada is something of a chameleon. Having gotten his start as an assistant director for Shunji Iwai, with whom he worked on five…
José Asunción Silva hangs over A Poet like a specter, haunting its messy proceedings. It’s no mistake that Colombia’s most famous poet weighs so heavily.…
The life of the tortured artist: society doesn’t understand them, friends and family abandon them, their audience doesn’t appreciate their work. From the artist’s perspective,…
The score of Jan-Ole Gerster’s Islands is one of the first signals about its intended genre and reference points: with lush, orchestral strings overlaid by…
The unknowables that inform the maintenance and dissolution of familial relationships are, for Hylnur Pálmason, generative. Fittingly, then, his new film, The Love That Remains,…
A spiritual cousin to 2009’s financial crisis-set Drag Me to Hell, the new film Send Help announces the much anticipated return of Sam Raimi, horror…
Time is an amazing thing. It eludes us as we write, as we speak, read, and breathe, confounding us even more when things don’t follow…
Some day, our future will be someone else’s past. Arco, the titular co-protagonist of illustrator, comic book author, and short film director Ugo Bienvenu’s debut…
Most even casual moviegoers are probably already familiar with the Screenlife subgenre, but for those who aren’t hip to the terminology, it’s made up of…
In 2014, Helen MacDonald released a memoir detailing the death of their beloved father, noted photojournalist Alisdair MacDonald, and their adoption of a goshawk as…
Joe Carnahan’s career has been relatively erratic since his still very well-regarded breakout feature Narc from 2002. Since, he’s mostly churned out gritty but generic…
As the economic and political importance of Hong Kong expanded exponentially in the second half of the 20th century, so did the reach of its…
Setting themselves far apart from most of the indie/DIY horror scene that focuses on squeaky exploitation thrills and slasher stuff (not that there’s anything wrong…
M3GAN is dead, long live Monkey. In 2022, Gerard Johnstone’s yassified murder doll injected new life into the January horror canon, TikTok dancing across the…
28 Years Later pushed the blockbuster forward by just as many years, shaking off the ubiquitous flat and sterile look forced down our throats by…
Nowadays remembered as the independent producer of the heavy-hitters of the Japanese New Wave — Nagisa Ōshima; Shohei Imamura, Yoshishige Yoshida; Shuji Terayama; all of…
A tasteless trend in movie marketing to reveal titles one letter at a time transitioned seamlessly into movie-making at some point in the last decade…
Celebrated as the long-awaited and much-anticipated anime adaptation of Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s novel and the subsequent manga, Kenichiro Akimoto’s All You Need is Kill will nevertheless…
I once carpooled from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to my small hometown in Northeast Ohio with a stranger. She was an attractive woman…
Melancholy, that inexplicable feeling of pensiveness, constitutes the centerpiece of memory, at least when memory divulges itself to its owner and defers all fantasies of…