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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
If readers were born, variably, between the ‘80s and ‘00s, chances are they hold dear a core memory of Stephen King discovery. In most households,…
In My Sad Dead’s picture of Buenos Aires, death is everywhere. That’s especially so for Emma (Mercedes Morán), a recently retired gastroenterologist with the gift…
A new horror short from Demon Knight and Bones director Ernest R. Dickerson is the best reason to see V/H/S: Mixtape, but even his segment…
Animals, the new Netflix film from director-(co-)writer-actor Ben Affleck, is an uncredited adaptation of Ed McBain’s (nom de plume of writer Evan Hunter) 1959 novel…
There’s something weirdly admirable about just how shamelessly Matchbox: The Movie (yes, that is the actual title) behaves as a piece of corporate synergy/IP. It’s almost…
There’s a spectrum of certain psychologically- or chemically-rooted qualities that most people who participate in extreme sports must have in order to succeed. But others,…
The raw, almost feral energy that Margaret Qualley can bring to her best roles often exists in fascinating tension with the serenity of her wide-eyed…
Ted Kaczynski offers us one of the great case studies in worthwhile notions and piss-poor execution. It’s hard to look at his ideas and not…
An opening shot of a bleeding, near-dead girl dragging herself across a tennis court in pitch darkness, only to be knocked out by a single…
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…
Replacing Science Fiction and Fantasy, romance — colloquially specified as “smut” — has solidified as the dominant literary genre fare in the U.S. In a…
Ah Pulp: national treasures, indie disco floor-fillers, perennial smartarse answer to “Blur vs Oasis.” And in frontman Jarvis Cocker, they had the gawky underdog turned…
It’s overselling Mayday a bit to suggest that it could have been made and released in 1987, when it takes place. That said, it’s rather…
The Russo brothers are now a brand unto themselves. Whether helming as directors or solely producing, there’s a certain “offensively inoffensive” blandness that has characterized…
Let’s imagine for a second the the potential recent states of mind of Wagner Moura and Greta Lee. Both are relatively fresh off some enormous…