In Michael Salerno’s The Masturbator’s Heart, death is an unshakeable temptation so vivid it becomes an obligation. It’s a remedy, a return to total…
“The homosexual subject group,” writes Guy Hocquenghem, “knows that civilization alone is mortal.” Written in 1973, prior to the AIDS epidemic, Hocquenghem located the…
It might seem trite to begin a film review with a quote, but we live in a world of clichés and can only outrun…
We’re in the midst of an unexpected run of films about the experiences of Asian-born women confronting the lives they left behind as children,…
As far as film titles go, Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken has to be one of the worst to swing out of Hollywood in many…
Killing, at first glance, can seem something of a left-field move for cult director Shinya Tsukamoto; it’s a slow-paced period piece that expends nearly…
Twenty years after its release, Tommy Wiseau’s The Room has an enduring cultural foothold that few actually good films can match. Of those released…
Anime has always been more inclined toward YA-facing and -reflecting projects than most other film genres, perhaps only rivaled by the short-lived post-Harry Potter…
The burgeoning demand for cinematic “relevance” today comes with several implicit assumptions as to what that relevance entails. For starters, there’s a certain complementary…
Released in 2006 to mixed reviews and respectable, if unremarkable, box office, Déjà Vu was the third collaboration (of an eventual five) between director…
Director Daina Reid’s Australian thriller Run Rabbit Run is yet another tired slab of trauma horror seemingly aimed at audiences unfamiliar with such exotic…
Nimona, the animated film adaption of ND Stevenson’s graphic novel of the same name — itself an expanded print edition of the cartoonist’s popular…
In his New York Times review of the English translation (by William Weaver) of The Name of the Rose, Franco Ferrucci described Umberto Eco’s…
In This Issue: FEATURES: KICKING THE CANON: Déjà Vu (Tony Scott) by Daniel Gorman // The Room (Tommy Wiseau) by Chris Mello FILM REVIEWS: Umberto…
It’s hard to be too critical of a work like I’m A Virgo, which so clearly has its heart in the right place. It’s…
It’s quite impossible (or rather absurd) to think about pop culture, and the many generations of teenagers and young adults that have fueled it,…
The current American political climate is in a state of such disarray that we have now reached a point where individuals are basing their…
There’s been a recent trend of revisiting the makings of great Hollywood classics, and with her new documentary — Desperate Souls, Dark City and…