In most movies, nature is portrayed as a still image, a landscape painting shown twenty-four times per second whose every detail is within God’s…
One of the highlights of the 2022 Berlinale’s Encounters sidebar was Ashley McKenzie’s Queens of the Qing Dynasty. Following the Canadian filmmaker’s first feature,…
In This Issue: FEATURES: IN THE STYLE AND THE IN THE STORYTELLING: An Interview with Ashley McKenzie by Jesse Catherine Webber BOUNDARIES ARE PERMEABLE: Thoughts…
What else is possibly left to say about the Fast & Furiouses? Fans excitedly devour each new installment with an oxymoronic combination of total…
Aside from Tom Hanks, it’s hard to think of an actor more beloved and respected by both the general public and his fellow peers…
Giving Birth to a Butterfly, the feature-length debut from director/co-writer Theodore Schaefer, opens with a middle-aged woman laying out two seemingly identical christening gowns,…
Last year, InRO reviewed K-pop boy group Seventeen’s Face the Sun, their fourth full-length album and one of the best projects of their career.…
It’s a film like Monica that offers you space to question the legitimacy of our major film festivals’ competition branches, a film where only…
Love Again sounds like a title where novelty goes to die, and the resulting film certainly does nothing to deviate from such lowered expectations,…
A wonderfully realized portrait of the alienation experienced by both a mother and her child, Italian filmmaker Emanuele Crialese’s brilliantly colorful and touching L’Immensita…
Writer-director Laurel Parmet’s The Starling Girl opens with 17-year-old Jem Starling (Eliza Scanlen) dancing with her church’s worship troupe. It’s clear that dancing brings…
A scattershot commentary on the film industry from writer-director-star Charlie Day (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), the kindest thing one can say about Fool’s…
Tucked deep in the uncanny valley of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, is a street of towering, decaying Dutch Elm trees. Probe deeper, and beneath the…
What if you mixed Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure with a little bit of Inception and topped it off with a dash of Firestarter? Sounds pretty…
Since its launch in November 2019 — fortuitous timing for a streaming service to enter the public sphere — Disney+ has padded its subscriber…
While only a year out from the Big Ghost Ltd. collab tape What Has Been Blessed Cannot Be Cursed, Conway the Machine seems anxious…
When VEEP aired on HBO eleven years ago, it seemed easy to call it a vicious political satire. The show was at its best…
In the wake of the mass protests that raged throughout Hong Kong for much of 2019 and the first half of last year, the…