If any company does brand recognition right, it’s Pornhub, launched in 2007 and now one of the largest purveyors of Internet pornography. Whether you’ve visited…
A boogeyman from a time that predates 24-hour news cycles, podcasts, and true crime docuseries, the Boston Strangler represents something of an unsolvable problem for…
From its first frames, Rikiya Imaizumi’s Call Me Chihiro is easily identifiable as a Netflix original. Adapted from Hiroyuki Yasuda’s manga Chihiro-san, the film’s flat,…
Writer-director Christopher Landon has made a career out of taking some of the most tired and shopworn genre plots imaginable and infusing them with a…
In the course of that rich history of films about con artists, the appeal has almost always been to watch largely amoral professionals execute their…
A Type A careerist finds her life spinning out of control after the man she’s long harbored feelings for announces his intentions of marrying a…
Netflix’s new romantic comedy Your Place or Mine got a shot in the arm publicity-wise this past week when photos from its premiere went viral…
Skinner Myers’ feature debut is a serpentine construct, a vision of subjectivity that embraces both virtuousness and transgression, emphatic in its depiction of self-destruction. The…
In his canonical text Hollywood Genres, author and theorist Thomas Schatz proffers a still useful distinction, that being between “the film genre and the genre…
The death of the mid-budget studio rom-com is a topic that has been commented on and analyzed ad nauseum by countless entertainment websites and social…
There are brief glimpses of confounding breadth present in JUNG_E, most cogent when projected across the extensive digital dreamscape that is this world’s reality. Director…
For most people, the protests on January 6, 2021, represent a dismal blight on American history; a rot that had corroded its way to the…
While it never quite led to the promise of a more democratic cinematic landscape, there’s now an entire history of digital movie-making that exists both…
Thanks to its quite odd pairing of collaborators, Sick is a movie awkwardly pulled in two directions at once. On the one hand, you have…
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is quite naked in its ambitions to become the next classic British Christmas special — The…
From the first frame of Alcarràs, Carla Simón alerts the viewer to the integrality of the summery Catalonian landscape of her film. Within these windswept…
Based on Louis Bayard’s 2003 novel, Scott Cooper’s painfully dull The Pale Blue Eye imagines a fictional murder mystery featuring one Edgar Allan Poe (Harry…
Holiday event filmmaking comes with a simple crutch — these stories nearly always end in a lesson. Art created for and surrounding children typically leans…
Of the so-called “three amigos” — comprising Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, and Alejandro González Iñárritu — whose films have in recent years penetrated the…
Through four feature films and some assorted shorts, Indonesian madman Timo Tjahjanto has proven to be one of our foremost purveyors of cinematic gore. Whether…