When wielded effectively, isolation and fear of the unknown can be two surefire ingredients for a memorable horror experience. The former can create a…
Writer/director Alice Maio Mackay is 18 years old; it seems almost obligatory that this be mentioned as her third feature film, T Blockers, premieres…
Following nearly three years of an ongoing pandemic, everyone has a new understanding of isolation. After varying degrees of social distancing regulations and masking…
The elevator pitch for Spaceman sounds like the wind-up to a bad joke. Here’s a somber metaphysical tone poem wherein a scrappy Czech space…
Despite being full of traditional Western tropes — including images of riding horseback through the dusty American plains and violent shootouts in dingy taverns…
The “social issue” film in contemporary Bollywood has as many forms of expression as it has sub-categories of issues. Take, for instance, the “women-centric”…
Dutch director Sacha Polak set a very high bar for herself with Hemel, her 2012 debut feature. Raw and at times agonizing, Hemel is…
In Ghosts of My Life, the late writer Mark Fisher writes, about hauntology: “Those who can’t remember the past are condemned to have it resold…
Keir O’Donnell is chiefly recognized as an actor, arguably best known for his supporting turn in 2005’s Wedding Crashers, in which he played a…
Ah, just what 2024 moviegoers needed: another rural crime-thriller rumination on God, Family, and Violence. Red Right Hand, the latest from Ian and Eshom…
We return to the year 10,191 for Dune: Part Two, the cleverly named second half of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal, beloved…
When first introduced in About Dry Grasses, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest feature, Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu), an art teacher, has been in the remote village…
In his critical study “Discourse and the Novel,” Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin described narrative fiction as a process by which individual characters are…
When it was released back in late 2021, Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, the director’s first feature film since the dissolution of the…
In the ongoing writing of the history of film, only a few summative propositions have ossified into matters of fact. The notion that the…
Considering the wealth of nightmarish aesthetic possibilities, it’s difficult to understand why stop motion animation isn’t more heavily utilized within the realm of horror.…
Matteo Garrone’s new film Io Capitano includes a map of the exact overland path taken by its two main characters during the end credits, charting the indirect route from Dakar…
It seems that — at least in the past few years — a considerable number of films have proven their ability to manifest new…