Hamburg-based, multi-disciplinary artist Martha Mechow makes her feature film directorial debut with Losing Faith, an ecstatic portrait of womanhood breaking free from societal norms of…
If language is something you acquire — as a child, learning the “meaning” of words and how they fit and flow together — then it…
For the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, the world comprised a single substance, and that substance was God. “Except God,” he wrote in the treatise Ethics,…
In Miranda Pennell’s latest essay film, the filmmaker carefully plaits a number of seemingly distinct cultural and historical strands, and in so doing, offers a…
In Michael Salerno’s The Masturbator’s Heart, death is an unshakeable temptation so vivid it becomes an obligation. It’s a remedy, a return to total neutrality.…
“The homosexual subject group,” writes Guy Hocquenghem, “knows that civilization alone is mortal.” Written in 1973, prior to the AIDS epidemic, Hocquenghem located the threat…
It might seem trite to begin a film review with a quote, but we live in a world of clichés and can only outrun our…
We’re in the midst of an unexpected run of films about the experiences of Asian-born women confronting the lives they left behind as children, struggling…
As far as film titles go, Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken has to be one of the worst to swing out of Hollywood in many a…
Killing, at first glance, can seem something of a left-field move for cult director Shinya Tsukamoto; it’s a slow-paced period piece that expends nearly an…
Twenty years after its release, Tommy Wiseau’s The Room has an enduring cultural foothold that few actually good films can match. Of those released in…
Anime has always been more inclined toward YA-facing and -reflecting projects than most other film genres, perhaps only rivaled by the short-lived post-Harry Potter cottage…
The burgeoning demand for cinematic “relevance” today comes with several implicit assumptions as to what that relevance entails. For starters, there’s a certain complementary relationship…
Released in 2006 to mixed reviews and respectable, if unremarkable, box office, Déjà Vu was the third collaboration (of an eventual five) between director Tony…
Director Daina Reid’s Australian thriller Run Rabbit Run is yet another tired slab of trauma horror seemingly aimed at audiences unfamiliar with such exotic concepts…
Nimona, the animated film adaption of ND Stevenson’s graphic novel of the same name — itself an expanded print edition of the cartoonist’s popular Tumblr-based…
In his New York Times review of the English translation (by William Weaver) of The Name of the Rose, Franco Ferrucci described Umberto Eco’s idea…
It’s hard to be too critical of a work like I’m A Virgo, which so clearly has its heart in the right place. It’s a…
It’s quite impossible (or rather absurd) to think about pop culture, and the many generations of teenagers and young adults that have fueled it, without…
The current American political climate is in a state of such disarray that we have now reached a point where individuals are basing their ideologies…