Money speaks everywhere in the world and in all creative industries, so Dancing Village: The Curse Begins comes as no surprise following KKN di Desa…
David Gutnik captures the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine from eye-level in his documentary Rule of Two Walls. Shot in the early months of 2022,…
Playing like a perverse continuation of the final scene of Tár, the new video game-to-feature-film adaptation Borderlands finds Cate Blanchett slumming it as a neon-redheaded, pistol-packing,…
Will Neil Marshall ever get his mojo back? After finding early success with a run of lean, mean, low-budget face-melters — Dog Soldiers and The Descent are…
After almost 20 years of shuffling through a laundry list of some of the most famous Hong Kong directors and actors, a filmed version of…
In 2017, the avant-groove trio of John Medeski (keyboards), Billy Martin (percussions), and Chris Wood (bass) arrive at an old mountain-top mansion in the Catskills…
Within the sphere of documentary filmmaking, the line between genuine storytelling and poverty porn can often be thin. Directors can easily, even if unintentionally, exploit…
From the 1880s until the 20th century’s final years, the Canadian government funded a system of residential schools for Indigenous children. Administered by various Christian…
The first obvious parallel to Tilman Singer’s horror-thriller Cuckoo is The Shining. A family — Luis (Marton Csokas), the patriarch, Gretchen (Hunter Schafer), his teenage…
There must be some sort of an unwritten connection between the warmth of summer and the heat of one’s newfound emotions, the ripeness in the…
M. Night Shyamalan’s proudly idiosyncratic career continues unabated with Trap, a profoundly silly and extremely entertaining little thriller that only becomes more of a blast…
While visiting Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with her fiancé, a woman finds herself enchanted — not just with the beautiful views of the Tetons, but with…
We’re approaching the 2024 U.S. presidential election’s climactic stretch. We’re still processing the whiplash from a landmark sequence of events that could’ve been pulled straight…
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, the…
On paper, a recently discovered 1964 interview between author and journalist Richard Meryman and Elizabeth Taylor, then at the absolute height of her fame and…
There appears to be strange, insidious brand of conservatism permeating the culture. Far removed from Silicon Valley-funded reactionary wannabe bohemians, whose broader cultural impact is…
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 cheaper,…
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 as…
How do you prove that you don’t speak a language? Especially when that language, English, is a tool of centuries-old oppression wielded by one of…
It’s not surprising that an artist with a career as shape-shifting and genre-defying as Brian Eno would balk at receiving the conventional documentary treatment. After…
Over the course of a single night, two couples trade psychic and physical blows over shared and shattered illusions about the business of connection in…