Turning 30 fucking sucks. Too old to be considered young, yet too young to have everything figured out (as if anyone ever really has it…
Billionaires are a funny breed. A hardworking and often altruistic bunch, they nevertheless carry the scarlet letter of corruption wherever they go: they may do…
80 is the new 60! With healthcare improving and human longevity increasing, it’s a golden age for the Medicare-eligible filmmaker — in the last decade,…
Back so soon, Mr. Stanton? Following the unmitigated, off-the-rails trainwreck of In the Blink of an Eye in February, one might expect the director to…
Maddening as it is that the middlebrow (leaning low) fodder of yesteryear continues to serve as a lightning rod for conservative megacorporations eager to cash…
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is across from Jericho. And the Lord…
James Cameron is the last gunslinger who knows what to do with 3D (at least until Ang Lee is released from Director Jail), although countless…
No, it’s not the Brendan Fraser vehicle, nor is Boris Karloff back from the dead; Tom Cruise, mercifully, is nowhere to be found. An original…
Social realism is alive and well and living in Belgium — but you knew that already, given that it’s the Dardennes’ home court. It may…
“Cura animarum is a historical Latin term originating from ecclesiastical law, which translates to ‘the care of souls’ or ‘the cure of souls.’ It refers…
The mainstream romantic drama matters. Movies on the artier end of the spectrum — Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless…
Honest question: do we live in a post-cinematic world? Equally honest answer: no, of course not, cinema can absolutely meet the moment. The tools afforded…
After nearly half a decade of putting out two movies per year, Hong Sang-soo has slowed from a full-on sprint to a jogger’s pace, releasing…
Ever since Terrence Malick pretty much pulled it off with The Tree of Life, every few years another auteur — usually in the sci-fi idiom…
Allow this writer to save you some time: Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC, a concert film made in the wake of the eponymous director’s newfound (and lucrative)…
One day there will be a knock on the door and it’ll be me. …
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…
“Look out Mama, there’s a white boat coming up the river!” — Neil Young, “Powderfinger” It’s the sound of waves parting, or maybe…
There’s a mighty thin line between minimalism and indolence, and Jim Jarmusch has walked it his entire career. When you choose minimalism, you amplify the…
Of film history’s lost White Whales — the complete Magnificent Ambersons, for example, or The Day the Clown Cried — the eventual release of The…
In the darkness of your room Your mother calls you by your true name You remember the faces the places the names You know it’s…