**The following discusses the endings of Monster and Evil Does Not Exist. “Movies are the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts,” Roger Ebert…
With our own culture marginalized, when it isn’t being stripped for its most clean and convenient parts, queer people have often taken back from the…
The “gay bathhouse” comes from a rich and storied tradition, from 15th-century Florence to 19th-century Paris to 20th-century New York City. Featuring an assortment of…
Viewed from one angle, Kevin Jerome Everson’s eclipse studies are as anomalous as the phenomena they capture. Everson’s body of work documents Black life with…
As Lav Diaz’s films have shrunk in reception, they have only grown in eclecticism and importance. A decade on from Norte: The End of History…
Slackers have been the bread and butter of indie cinema since 90’s mainstays like Clerks and Slacker helped jumpstart the whole modern American independent film…
A woman speaks French as the top third of the image reveals itself to the audience, the rest of the screen blank. A man in…
Diane Arbus once described horror as the relationship between sex and death. With the exception of pornography, no other film genre brings us closer to…
Silent woman. Distant camera. Loneliness giving off a steam, slowly cooling into anger. Fantasy of retribution. Architecture so oppressive it could freeze a layer of…
In his lifetime, Johann Sebastian Bach was not considered one of the great composers. He was known for his virtuosic ability, but his vast oeuvre…
In one way, horror fans have a lot to be happy about. Over the past decade, the genre has broken out of its “midnight movie”…
Danis Tanović might be the most personal, visually compelling, and thematically thoughtful political auteur working in European cinema. And regrettably, his name will largely go…
The films of Antoine Bourges are measured by their restraint. Noted for their blurring of documentary and fiction, Bourges immerses himself in under-represented places at…
Christopher Jason Bell has been making movies on the margin, funded only by himself and shot with a small crew as and when they can,…
Cinema has undergone two significant, canvas-expanding innovations so far in the 21st century. The first, as ushered in especially by the films of Timur Bekmambetov…
There always seems to be an imaginary asterisk placed on discussions centered around films made by filmmakers who have been pushed into a Kafkaesque corner.…
The superficial recreations of the Wes Anderson AestheticTM have kickstarted a new metric in art evaluation based on their ease of A.I. appropriation. While A.I.…
“Considered mechanically, a duck is not an efficient machine.” So observes Vague McMenamy, an amateur inventor living in pre-industrial Glasgow who resolves to improve the…
Any discussion of the 20th century’s most brutal novels in American literature must include Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985) and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho…
It’s impossible to talk about 2023 without talking about Barbie and Oppenheimer, two very different films that became seismic pop culture sensations, crushing the box…