Much digital ink has been spilled about the merits of YouTubers transitioning to feature film directors. Some happily welcome this newfound generation of talent with…
On October 11, 1985, during Back to the Future’s 15th week in theaters, while audiences reveled in Marty and Doc Brown’s escape from Libyan terrorists…
It was only in January 2026, a whole decade after Michał Marczak’s All These Sleepless Nights had premiered at Sundance, that I learned that a…
At the 75th edition of Cannes, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage (2022) sparked considerable attention, premiering in Un Certain Regard. This playfully reimagined portrait of…
The pop music industry is one of single stories. Regardless of the language or nationality of the industry, pop musicians are essentially told to fit…
It’s been a rocky old road for Jack Begert’s Junk. Premiering at Sundance 2024 under the title Little Death, the film won the NEXT Innovation…
If LAIKA’s Wildwood was an absolute travesty in every other way, its floor would remain high because simply just looking at it, regardless of plot…
Paweł Pawlikowski, the immaculate king of grim black-and-white Eastern European cinema, has made us wait eight years for a new film. After the exquisite moral…
In some remote village, at some time before electricity and machines, there are the men who have jobs and the women who wed them. The…
It was only a matter of time until the superhero machine sank its teeth into body horror. With Clayface, the DCU makes good on a…
Very often in cinema, it’s as if we know the director of a film; we know their basic predilections, visual and thematic preoccupations, but only…
As the popular online adage goes, Cinephilia is a disease, and few exemplify this better than filmmakers themselves. Shaped by the forms, narratives and dramaturgies…
Crime doesn’t pay the way it used to. At least, that’s the case for the old school petty thieves who would thrive on a practiced…
Sacha Baron Cohen must have depleted the water supply of approximately 17 townships to present us with all of the following: AI-generated Hitler and Greta…
Don’t ask why, but I’ve been thinking about Belly a lot lately. Yes, it is a charmed life. With every rewatch, it becomes even more…
Ideology is the backbone of cinema. Or, at least that is what Jean-Luc Comolli and Paul Narboni posited nearly 60 years ago in their joint…
For some, Halloween is just a holiday, a brief period of time when the neighborhood is suddenly adorned with frightening accouterments and houses become inundated…
Director James Nunn and frequent leading man Scott Adkins are back together again with One Last Shot, the (presumably) final entry in their elaborately staged,…
Adaptation isn’t an exact science. Where one film fails for missing the essence of a text, another succeeds despite ignoring the details. Translation in the…
Judd Apatow’s Norm opens, obviously, with a Netflix logo, followed immediately by a digitized “play” icon. A cursor is dragged to the middle of the…
If there is one group that’s not short of tales to tell, it’s Wu-Tang Clan. That rather comes with the territory whenever you’ve got nine…