Until semi-recently, Formula 1 racing was only immensely popular pretty much all over the world except in the United States, but a combination of the…
It’s girthy, oversized, gold-encrusted, evocative of pain more than pleasure. No, I’m not talking about the massive enameled penis that makes a couple appearances throughout…
The popular conception of sexuality in America has doubtless expanded since the turn of the century, but its depiction on mainstream screens somehow has not.…
It wasn’t his debut or even his first major work, but Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s opening credits to Tropical Malady deliver perhaps the moment that summarizes everything…
Mani Ratnam is considered one of India’s finest directors, particularly among those working in the Tamil language, and is coming off a two-part critical and…
Decades in the making but arguably being released five years prematurely, 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle’s follow-up to 2002’s seminal, lo-fi zombie film 28 Days Later…
Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré have amassed a remarkable body of work, and “body” is certainly an apt descriptor. Their intimate and playful films are…
Local, low-budget theatre demands enthusiastic commitment from its participants that almost always exceeds the profits and artistic achievements they can expect at the end of…
Killing Mary Sue defines the term “Mary Sue” thusly: “A character, usually a young woman, who is often portrayed as inexplicably competent across all domains…
With The Dells, director Nellie Kluz delivers a work of nonfiction that exists in some strange space between shifts at the “Shore Store” from Jersey…
Anyone who has spent time with someone suffering from dementia has seen a loved one lie to them. These are not lies of malice; they…
“This language of the unreal, this fictive language which delivers us to fiction, comes from silence and returns to silence.” – Maurice Blanchot, The Space…
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard A fabulistic streak tints the proceedings of The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard, David Verbeek’s ninth feature,…
A fabulistic streak tints the proceedings of The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard, David Verbeek’s ninth feature, with a sheen of greyscale anonymity that…
In this gluttonous age of streaming, where art of all forms is cannibalized by the film industry in pursuit of content, the more particular art…
Cinematographer Bill Pope must have done something awful in 2022. Maybe he ran over some studio executive’s cat or perhaps his children beat out the…
Natchez Director Suzannah Herbert’s documentary Natchez, which counts Sam Pollard among its executive producers and won this year’s Documentary Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival,…
Without raising too much of a film culture racket, the Predator films have endured for nearly four decades, steadily turning out a new entry every…
It’s been over a decade now since I caught Rithy Panh’s The Missing Picture at the Vancouver Film Festival. The director’s chronicle of his memories…
For fans of a certain kind of action movie, Diablo is one of the most anticipated releases of 2025. It marks the sixth collaboration between…