Young filmmakers making gangster-adjacent genre films is a time-honored tradition — it’s a mode of moviemaking with a built-in propensity for ready-made conflict, violence, stylized…
Following his loose trilogy of Oakland-based documentaries, Peter Nicks returns to spotlight arguably the most dynamic professional basketball player of the last decade. Golden State…
Long serving as a fun bit of Internet trivia to stoke the engagement machine, fervently celebrated actor/writer/director Greta Gerwig’s canceled 2014 CBS pilot — a…
Of the three leads in They Cloned Tyrone, Juel Taylor’s wild conspiracy caper, not one is actually named Tyrone. It’s a slight detail that quickly…
It’s the week leading up to Halloween and a child wakes in the middle of the night, having been roused by an unexpected, unsettling sound.…
Hard Rain meets Crawl in The Flood, director Brandon Slagle’s ultra-low-budget creature feature that would feel right at home in the 11:00 PM Tuesday night…
On July 7th, 2006, Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett died of pancreatic cancer and complications from diabetes at the age of sixty. Although he was the…
Kids these days don’t even know what film, this emulsive material, is, as a talking head insipidly points out in Alex Winter’s strained and self-serious…
Los Alamos, New Mexico: Apache country. Just a half-hour drive from Santa Fe, the land of Los Alamos was sparse but beautiful. The land hosts…
Quicksand is yet another entry in the suddenly ubiquitous horror subgenre of forced couples’ therapy, where a contentious pair are placed in a diabolical —…
“Girlfriend” — whether the companionship implied is defined via romantic means, as a partnership, or via an external projection of friendship, the term is more…
Audiences hankering for a new James Bond film can tide themselves over with Landon Van Soest’s The Jewel Thief, an engaging true crime documentary and…
“U.S. history is a branch of a larger tree of history… but it’s that covetous branch that thinks it’s the tree.” Proffered somewhere partway through…
Though remakes of beloved films are usually met with some degree of warranted skepticism, sometimes the combination of director and material is too enticing to…
Remember Bird Box? Surely you must, since it allegedly became the most popular movie ever on Netflix at the time of its release. This also…
There’s no denying the sheer aesthetic appeal of Laura McGann’s The Deepest Breath. Charting the mind-boggling freediving efforts of Alessia Zecchini and Stephen Keenan, the…
Savanah Leaf’s debut Earth Mama treats the viewer to a tender, moving portrait of a complicated Black woman. Leaf establishes the stakes early on: Gia…
It might seem strange that Hideaki Anno’s name would come to be associated with nostalgic childhood properties, given how much of his work has engaged…
Since the last Mission: Impossible movie, Fallout, was released in 2018, Tom Cruise has seemingly forced his superhero status into the real world by sheer…
Insidious: The Red Door marks the fifth film in the 13-year-old horror series, but it’s the first direct sequel to 2013’s Chapter 2, with parts…
Two parts simmering battle of wills between a pair of strong-willed authors, one part bone-dry autocritique of its own exquisite corpse-like premise, Alice Troughton’s The…