We’re approaching the 2024 U.S. presidential election’s climactic stretch. We’re still processing the whiplash from a landmark sequence of events that could’ve been pulled…
Familiarity abounds in The Instigators, but something in the formula feels off. Inauspiciously being released on Apple TV+ after a mostly perfunctory, one-week theatrical release,…
On paper, a recently discovered 1964 interview between author and journalist Richard Meryman and Elizabeth Taylor, then at the absolute height of her fame…
There appears to be strange, insidious brand of conservatism permeating the culture. Far removed from Silicon Valley-funded reactionary wannabe bohemians, whose broader cultural impact…
Have you ever watched one of Roland Emmerich’s appreciably bonkers epics and thought to yourself: “What if this had way less action, looked even…
If anything is to be said of Zack Snyder, it’s that he has never met a director’s cut he didn’t like, with films such…
How do you prove that you don’t speak a language? Especially when that language, English, is a tool of centuries-old oppression wielded by one…
It’s not surprising that an artist with a career as shape-shifting and genre-defying as Brian Eno would balk at receiving the conventional documentary treatment.…
Over the course of a single night, two couples trade psychic and physical blows over shared and shattered illusions about the business of connection…
People tend to fall into two camps when asked about Everest: those who want to climb it, whether that be a serious goal or…
Rarely has a NEON film so thoroughly lived up to the colorless and inert nature of the studio namesake as does Mothers’ Instinct, the…
Director Alexander J. Farrell’s The Beast Within opens with a quote about there “being two wolves inside each of us,” followed by a brief…
Like an oak presiding over what came before and what might follow, Kier-La Janisse’s documentary study Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched (2021) roots folk…
Conspicuously absent from the fall festival circuit, Fatih Akin’s Rhinegold bowed at the Filmfest Hamburg back in October 2022, and is only now getting…
Seemingly willed into existence by hungry fans, the Deadpool movies may not have been great action films or even superhero installments, but at their…
Growing up is a complicated mess. That has always seemed to be the primary message behind most — if not all — coming-of-age films…
Although his name may be unfamiliar to some, Chinese director Wei Shujun has already made several feature films, including 2021’s Ripples of Life, which…
Nearly the entire 90-minute runtime of Tim MacKenzie-Smith’s Getting It Back: The Story Of Cymande is filled with the titular band’s music. This never…