First, the camera presents a world for the song to take place in. A spike of sky above a statue that reaches upward forever, a…
Only a few minutes into his 100,000,000,000,000, 48-year-old French filmmaker Virgil Vernier (Mercuriales, Sophia Antipolis) presents to viewers a gang of four young escorts who,…
On September 13, 2022, Masha Amini, a young 22-year-old girl was arrested by the Iranian religious morality police for allegedly not wearing her hijab in…
The psychoanalytic term of the “big Other” is a fancy shorthand for our symbolic social order, and it’s what delimits most of our everyday lives…
In 2014, Dawn DaLuise, a renowned Hollywood facialist, was arrested and charged with solicitation for murder after being accused of hiring a hitman to kill…
Karma’s a bitch. JoJo Siwa warned us all earlier this summer, and so the timing of her latest film (and the first that isn’t tween-appealing…
Genre films — especially horror films — tend to let you do a lot with a little. If you can sell a novel idea with…
Drowning Dry Pilgrims, Laurynas Bareiša’s previous feature, was an accomplished debut that explored a man’s inability to move past the senseless killing of his brother.…
For theists, the problem of evil has presented a nagging counterpoint to unchallenged belief in God, though sometimes it is precisely the challenge of proving…
The most emotionally and spiritually invigorating faith-based films rely not on proselytization or condemnation, but on abstraction. Their dramatic force comes from their characters’ tormented…
Despite being active for roughly five decades, with a handful of theatrical and television works within his filmography — including his 1980 debut To Love…
Contemporary Georgian cinema is hard to pin down. Recent years’ most notable examples prove native talent expresses itself in disparate ways. The familiar, coming-of-age sensibilities…
Advanced mathematics on film is often treated as a gateway to mental illness (Pi) or espionage (The Imitation Game) or in some instances both (A…
Ridley Scott’s original 1979 Alien was simultaneously a landmark science fiction film and a landmark horror film, one that married slasher and haunted house scares…
As America heads toward an increasingly tumultuous and unpredictable future, it comes as no surprise that there are filmmakers who are champing at the bit…
Death and destruction are the mainstays of war, but it is war’s fatigue — long-drawn and uncertain, for both its combatants and victims — that…
British filmmaker Ben Rivers is competing in the 2024 Locarno Film Festival with his newest film, Bogancloch. It is Rivers’ second feature about Jake Williams,…
Money speaks everywhere in the world and in all creative industries, so Dancing Village: The Curse Begins comes as no surprise following KKN di Desa…
David Gutnik captures the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine from eye-level in his documentary Rule of Two Walls. Shot in the early months of 2022,…
The Sparrow in the Chimney Those who have seen the Zürcher twins’ other works, The Strange Little Cat and The Girl and the Spider, may…