Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel are a contemporary duo whose work rebukes and inquires into the reactionary, philosophical response to an accelerated technological development,…
Activism often dictates that form follows function, and that the message must come through at all costs — even if it should sacrifice the…
The beginning of Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s debut feature, Birdeater, condenses the relationship of Louie (Mackenzie Fearnley) and Irene (Shabana Azeez) into an extended,…
Ever since the disaster that was Green Lantern, one of action cinema’s surest old hands and biggest directors of the ’90s has been toiling…
Detective fiction has deep roots in Gothic horror — look no further than Poe’s seminal “Murders in the Rue Morgue” for confirmation. Horror has…
As Werewolves opens, we’re informed that the previous year a supermoon event turned everyone who came into contact with moonlight into a werewolf, leading…
When Don (Shea Whigham) gets out of prison, the job he had thought was all set up for him upon release falls through and…
In the opening moments of Nightbitch, director Marielle Heller appears alongside her star Amy Adams, both playing frustrated mothers in a grocery store. Both…
Grindhouse aficionados likely need no introduction to J. Michael Muro and Roy Frumkes’ 1987 splatter-fest Street Trash, a grungy cult-favorite about tainted liquor melting…
In 1520, Stockholm witnessed one of the most brutal power struggles in Scandinavian history. Following a tense standoff between Sweden and Denmark, Danish King…
As connoisseurs of DTV action cinema well know, even the most promising film is likely to wind up being about 15 minutes of good…
There is no perfect formula for a first scene — art is simply too complex to make such generalizations. The pulsing action of Jackie…
During an interview with Variety about their latest venture, Heretic, the writer-director duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (who rose to prominence for penning…
As the planet’s future grows increasingly precarious and uncertain, films exploring a post-apocalyptic landscape are certainly having their moment in the sun, particularly ones…
In animator Jérémy Clapin’s live-action feature debut Meanwhile on Earth, Elsa (Megan Northam), sister of astronaut Franck (depicted by Yoan Germain Le mat, voiced…
Xu Haofeng makes movies for people who enjoy and understand the finer points of martial arts choreography. His best-known film work (he’s also a…
Our multiplexes and home theaters desperately miss the erotic thriller. Every few years, one or two squeaky clean PG-13 studio productions will don the…
Is it an extra cute joke that Bookworm is yet another movie where Elijah Wood goes trundling through the New Zealand countryside in search…