In This Issue: FEATURES: A Synthesis of Different Ideas: An Interview with Lois Patiño by Ryan Akler-Bishop FILM REVIEWS: Mad Fate (Soi Cheang) by Ryan…
Director Goran Stolevski has given his sophomore feature, Of an Age, a suitably malleable title that effectively expresses the various thematic and emotional preoccupations guiding…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Morality, Murder, and Misanthropic Milieus in Bully and O by Mike Thorn // An Ode to Decadence: An Interview With…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Titanic: Courting Disaster by Esmé Holden // The 2023 Grammy Awards: Racism, Rockism, and Plain Predictability by Nick Seip Kicking the Canon:…
“What are your plans for Act Three?” asks one character of Channing Tatum’s Mike about the show he’s directing in Magic Mike’s Last Dance, the…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Festival Coverage — Sundance 2023, including: Magazine Dreams (Elijah Bynum) by Andrew Dignan // Passages (Ira Sachs) by Sam C. Mac …
As we move ever further into the streaming age, the question of what exactly constitutes a film continues to blur. No longer tethered to considerations…
“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 last…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Festival Coverage — Sundance 2023, including: MAMACRUZ (Patricia Ortega) by Morris Yang // Gush (Fox Maxy) by Micheal Sicinski // The Night…
“I come from the tail end of that generation in advertising when there was usually an unfinished novelin the lower desk drawer. It was still the glory days of the…
In This Issue: FEATURES: People in Rooms: The Films of Mike Leigh by Lawrence Garcia // Cowboy Boots of Padre Park: A Quick History of…
Premiering at the 2022 edition of the Cannes Film Festival and dropping into U.S. theaters in the autumn, Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO was a film that…
While the ongoing Liam Neeson dad-action-movie concern has been producing ever more diminishing returns, over the last decade and change, just about nobody has so…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay) by Morris Yang // Kicking the Canon: The Devil’s Rejects (Rob Zombie) by Daniel Gorman FILM REVIEWS: Plane (Jean-François Richet)…
Simply put: Julia Wu has established herself as one of the most consistent artists of the decade so far. The Australian-Chinese singer-songwriter has put out…
In This Issue: FEATURES: The Crushing Futility of Human Action: Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist by Fred Barrett // Kicking the Canon: Gummo by Fred Barrett…
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S:INEMA is a lushly produced and confidently fluid record that goes a long way in asserting SAAY’s unique artistic character. Although the average K-pop fan…
Actual People captures actual truths about the ways that young people behave. Kit Zauhar follows up her promising short film, Helicopter, with an equally talky debut…
Midnights is stuck somewhere between Taylor Swift’s classic pop textures and recent dreamy minimalism, to disappointing ends. As an unabashedly pop record, Taylor Swift’s new…
Episode 1: “Lot 36” Guillermo del Toro might be an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but at heart he’s always been a fanboy. Part carnival barker, part…