“And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said…
Dolly lays its porcelain head at the altar of Leatherface. Rod Blackhurst’s bootstraps indie horror is unabashedly pious toward The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the seminal…
There’s an early scene in Amy Wang’s Slanted where our main character, Joan Huang (Shirley Chen), is shown scrolling through social media while wearing a clothespin fastened…
The concept of being a flop, a loser, a dud, an empty promise, and a failure in 2026. The new year is already growing old,…
Where Homer’s Odyssey featured the originary myth of homecoming, the modern sojourner often seeks first to venture outside before finding, in the process, his true…
After A New Love in Tokyo, Banmei Takahashi turned beyond the mortal realm. Japan was fine. His films — whether through home video as V-Cinema or…
Sometimes you can tell right away that you’re in for a thoroughly generic bit of junk food, but that’s not always instructive of quality. Often,…
The scourges of the contemporary art world are many, but arguably the largest of them has to do with the widening disconnect between the sanctity…
In a depressive musical landscape where the only things pop stars seem to sing about are wanting to have sex, having sex, and regretting having…
If you weren’t around to experience it in real time, it will be hard to grasp how seismic the 2002 FIFA World Cup feud between…
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Given the franchise’s downward trajectory since its requel resurrection, reasonable hopes were never bound to be high for Scream 7. But then came the reprehensible…
There is a scene, not long into Werner Herzog’s Ghost Elephants, that may explain the purpose behind not only this movie, but the entire catalog…
Italian-American documentarian Gianfranco Rosi has been making films for 30 years, but they’ve never quite been entirely about what is shown on the screen. His…
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! brashly announces in its opening title card that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein on a dare, and that’s an ethos the film itself has…
With miscarriage after miscarriage of justice, the United States has all but exposed the amorality at the heart of its empire: first the Epstein files…
We need to talk about Tommy. In Jan Komasa’s Heel, Tommy (Anson Boon) is a proper hooligan. His nights out mean rails of cocaine in…
Jim Jarmusch’s characters tend to not be long for their worlds. William Blake, Johnny Depp’s meek and self-effacing protagonist of Dead Man, loses out on…
Hoppers, the latest animation project from Pixar/Disney, exceeds according to at least one important metric: it’s a familiar product, offering easily consumable family-fare and realizing…
For the most part, the documentaries that have made Gianfranco Rosi’s reputation have a firm basis in geography. Sacro GRA (2013) explored life in Rome…
It’s been a long and winding to get Psycho Killer to the big screen. The film is the brainchild of screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, who…