Escaping from the claws of corporate homogeneity and shared cinematic universes is Bassam Tariq’s Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, almost certainly the strangest film…
NAZA is a film so powerful and so utterly terrifying that it should be watched by everyone. And still, it would feel wrong to slot…
Ted Kaczynski offers us one of the great case studies in worthwhile notions and piss-poor execution. It’s hard to look at his ideas and not…
Aficionados of the Dog Movie will tell you that there are several distinct strains therein. You’ve got your broad comedies, usually involving a large and…
The concept of a Japanese ghost story conjures up many spectacular images of hauntings from throughout cinema history. There are the vengeful spirits of classic…
In 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis radically upended the New College of Florida in an attempt to align the university with his party’s hyper-conservative ideologies,…
When people talk longingly about escaping to a deserted island, they probably don’t imagine forgoing human contact altogether. Peace and quiet is one thing; total…
An opening shot of a bleeding, near-dead girl dragging herself across a tennis court in pitch darkness, only to be knocked out by a single…
Behind-the-camera work can be thankless, especially if you’re a location scout. In The Scout, the debut feature from writer/director Paula González-Nasser, Sofia (Mimi Davila) lives…
The first 15 minutes of Take Off cite Hegel not once but twice. It goes without saying how unique this aspirational source is within the…
Julia Kowalski’s Her Will Be Done begins with a cryptic series of images; pitch-black night, a pile of discarded clothing, closeups of various faces, impassive…
In Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!, grief bums around like a third wheel. It is needy, morose, fickle; the sort of guest that says they’re not…
Director Michael Dowse is no stranger to the rough-edged antihero, but perhaps he’s a bit less in touch with the management of thematic conciliation when…
Why are filmmakers today so afraid of melodrama? Many’s a recent feature, from the acclaimed (Celine Song’s Past Lives) to the less so (Luca Guadagnino’s…
Watching Resident Evil, I thought about choice, the force that presents differently in video games and video game adaptations. In the former, a spectator-player chooses…
Replacing Science Fiction and Fantasy, romance — colloquially specified as “smut” — has solidified as the dominant literary genre fare in the U.S. In a…
Catholicism and adolescence should, at least on paper, be natural bedfellows. One is a boundary-testing time of near-deranged horniness and rife with terrible decisions, whilst…
There is a sort of integrity in making a film as doggedly mediocre as Without Blood. Adapted from Alessandro Baricco’s 2002 novel, Senza Sangue, by…
In 2020, HBO began airing one of the funniest and most significant docuseries in the history of the form, How To With John Wilson, in…
Jonatan Etzler’s Bad Apples takes place somewhere in the United Kingdom, most likely a studio somewhere near Bristol, though it may as well be mistaken…
Aardman Animations has long been the last oddball left in an increasingly homogenized world of American animation. Founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton over…