Jeremy Saulnier’s new thriller Rebel Ridge doesn’t waste a moment of time getting wound up. Immediately, Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre, in a terrific performance…
Six years ago Zia Anger’s live cinema presentation My First Film (from which the film My First Film is adapted) sparked a fire around…
There’s a reason spacecrafts are often the setting of horror stories: they are the ultimate locked room. No matter what threatens you inside, there…
Few films have left as influential of a legacy on their country of origin as the 2002 Brazilian classic City of God. Co-directed by…
“Our daddies are our mirrors that we reflect back on when we decide about what type of man we deserve and how they see…
First things first: it will be important to remember, going forward, that John Woo’s 2024 movie The Killer, despite being a remake of his…
The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat follows the intertwined lives of three best friends, Odette (played by Kyanna Simmone when young, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in…
Films like Booksmart, Mean Girls (the 2024 musical version), and other more recent entries into the teen movie canon have proven that it’s an…
Once the purview of Dateline NBC, 20/20, and 48 Hours, the surge of true-crime podcasts and Netflix documentaries has led to an explosion of…
With 2024 marking the arrival of their eighth co-directed feature (with a couple additional co-director credits going to daughter Zelda in recent efforts), the…
Advanced mathematics on film is often treated as a gateway to mental illness (Pi) or espionage (The Imitation Game) or in some instances both…
As America heads toward an increasingly tumultuous and unpredictable future, it comes as no surprise that there are filmmakers who are champing at the…
Money speaks everywhere in the world and in all creative industries, so Dancing Village: The Curse Begins comes as no surprise following KKN di…
Familiarity abounds in The Instigators, but something in the formula feels off. Inauspiciously being released on Apple TV+ after a mostly perfunctory, one-week theatrical release,…
On paper, a recently discovered 1964 interview between author and journalist Richard Meryman and Elizabeth Taylor, then at the absolute height of her fame…
Have you ever watched one of Roland Emmerich’s appreciably bonkers epics and thought to yourself: “What if this had way less action, looked even…
If anything is to be said of Zack Snyder, it’s that he has never met a director’s cut he didn’t like, with films such…
People tend to fall into two camps when asked about Everest: those who want to climb it, whether that be a serious goal or…