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…
Leonardo Pirondi’s debut feature Tropicais Fractais isn’t your conventional sci-fi epic. There is a spaceship, a futuristic bio-dome-like built environment, AI-powered supercomputers, and the impending…
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…
In this dispatch: Ink, Mr. Nelson, Did You…
“Fleet Flick From Fleet Street!” That could be the Sun headline for Danny Boyle’s boisterous adaptation of James Graham’s 2017 play about the transformation of…
The title of Shinya Tsukamoto’s latest foray into historical war drama comes from a question asked by a child to a Vietnam War veteran. Allen…
The dovetailing of a post-Free Solo film landscape with the advent of a mass production, streaming-focused documentary apparatus — exacerbated by the home-viewing requirements and…
How to escape from the bottom of the barrel? In Ferit Karahan’s Djinn Wedding, a family in desperation moves into an abandoned house in rural…
Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun has staked out a strong, consistent ethic across his career. His films champion the cause of the outcast, the foreigner, the…
It’s hard to talk about Richie Mehta’s Phoolan without first talking about Bandit Queen and Arundhati Roy. In 1994 in India, writer Arundhati Roy was…
“Medical assistance in dying,” or MAID in Canada, is the country’s assisted suicide legal framework. The framework is now a decade old, and its use…
A committed revolutionary who doesn’t see his filmmaking practice as something separate from his revolutionary aims, Masao Adachi has consistently stuck to his guns under…
No Money No Honey Long before the term “vlogger” or “influencer” entered the lexicon, it was unique, if not outright strange, to document one’s everyday…
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 this dispatch: Love of Your Life, Drifter…
Here’s the thing about competitive drift racing: it has very little to do with who crosses a finish line first. Instead, it’s a pastime focused…
Is it possible for an entire nation to have an inside joke? Manitoba-based filmmaker Matthew Rankin’s brilliant new film Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney zeroes…