Deep in the Himalayan wilderness, surrounded by a swelling symphony of wing-beats, two figures wait patiently in the dark. Indian lepidopterist Mansi is on…
Brad Dourif, known for his madman characters and many cinematic iniquities, is, it’s easy to forget, capable of staggering eclecticism. His career, unimpeachable, daring,…
We truly are in a golden age of action cinema. From every corner of the globe, with budgets high, low, and in-between, remarkably fit…
A home invasion is a terrifying prospect, though it’s even more blood-curdling, especially from a third-party vantage, if the occupants are unaware of the…
The 1954 version of A Star is Born should never have turned out as well as it did. It was a remake of a…
On the Wikipedia page for the serial killer Rodney Alcala, there is a 145-word entry under the subheading “Dating Game appearance,” which recounts an…
The title of A24’s newest tragicomic offering, We Live in Time, recalls the gleeful cliché of romance films from the decade past: The Time…
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…
Rumours Since his out-of-nowhere debut feature Tales from the Gimli Hospital in 1988, Winnipeg-based director Guy Maddin has become synonymous with a very particular…
Since his out-of-nowhere debut feature Tales from the Gimli Hospital in 1988, Winnipeg-based director Guy Maddin has become synonymous with a very particular brand…
Engaged in a lengthy process of simultaneous expansion and refinement, the indefatigable Hong Sang-soo seems to practice a new, yet knowingly familiar, alchemy with…
Why is it that in the nation of Spain, a nation whose siestas evince a clear cultural supremacy over their efficiency-imprisoned neighbors, regularly invites…
“Our dominance is supreme and our isolation is profound.” These words, taken from N. Scott Momaday’s essay, “A Storyteller and His Art,” pronounce the…
“There comes a time when the only way you can make a statement is to pick up a gun.” When Sara Jane Moore attempted…
Revolving Rounds In Johann Lurf’s thrilling 2019 film Cavalcade, a 35mm camera records an apparent long take of a six-foot phenakistoscope water wheel constructed…
It’s been hard for me to describe Jinho Myung’s debut feature Softshell (2024) ever since it premiered at New/Next Film Festival on the first…
In Caddo Lake’s hectic opening moments, Paris (Dylan O’Brien) fails to save his mother, trapped underwater in a car she has driven off a…
One approaches the release of Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice with equal parts morbid curiosity and dread. Mired in what was almost certainly expected controversy…