Coming on the heels of Thursday’s Thanksgiving football, it’s fitting when discussing Our Little Secret to take a quick look back at seemingly innocuous…
It’s possible to make the claim that, from a certain point in his career, the works of the veteran (and outcast) Russian filmmaker Alexander…
At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Studio Ghibli was presented with an Honorary Palme d’Or — the very first time in the festival’s history…
Not very long ago, robots and AIs, automatons and droids — either as friendly or malignant entities — belonged to a far unknown future…
In the opening scene of Ciro De Caro’s Taxi Monamour, the film introduces one of its two heroines in a hospital clinic: a young…
For its first 10 to 15 minutes, Audrey Cummings’ reversionistic feminist Western Place of Bones proves to be surprisingly perplexing. A lot of this…
Víctor Erice’s Close Your Eyes opens to a beautiful autumnal scene of the French countryside in 1947: an old fictional mansion (called “Triste le…
Only a few minutes into his A Hundred Thousand Billion, 48-year-old French filmmaker Virgil Vernier (Mercuriales, Sophia Antipolis) presents to viewers a gang of…
Despite being active for roughly five decades, with a handful of theatrical and television works within his filmography — including his 1980 debut To…
In 2017, the avant-groove trio of John Medeski (keyboards), Billy Martin (percussions), and Chris Wood (bass) arrive at an old mountain-top mansion in the…
There must be some sort of an unwritten connection between the warmth of summer and the heat of one’s newfound emotions, the ripeness in…
Richard LaGravenese’s (P.S. I Love You) new Netflix rom-com A Family Affair — which offers viewers an easy-sell reunion for A-listers Nicole Kidman and…
From VR to AI and NFT, from Metaverse to cutting-edge computer games and interface technologies, it’s quite clear that both our existential and psychological…
Imbued with plenty of allure and the potential for surprise, friendly get-togethers and familial gatherings in cinema sustain such an appeal that they never…
Am I OK?, the directorial debut of Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, is a simple, mostly familiar coming-out story that follows Lucy (Dakota Johnson),…
Ned Benson’s The Greatest Hits opens with its heroine, Harriet (Lucy Boynton), a young librarian, standing alone in her beautifully half-lit, tranquil apartment before…
Irish Wish marks the second collaboration between Janeen Damian and Lindsay Lohan, after their lukewarm yet distinctly feel-good Falling for Christmas. Far from the…
Perhaps more well-known as a former Cahiers du Cinéma critic and the frequent co-screenwriter with the likes of Jacques Rivette, André Techiné, and Chantal…