When corporations fail to look out for the best interests of the common people, it’s up to activists to save the day. This is…
The most laudable thing about director Jared Hess’ feature adaptation of Minecraft is the “A” of the title. In contrast with, say, The Super…
In 1971, legendary rock artists and power couple John Lennon and Yoko Ono left their estate in London and moved to New York. For…
Four decades later and the influence of Die Hard remains unimpeachable, so much so that its stature in action cinema serves as a functional…
Michael Angarano’s Sacramento carries through it a familiar refrain of millennial angst and light comedy, exploring themes of anxiety about adulthood, personal loss, and…
A man wakes up on a crowded bus. He’s in a strange neighborhood, with no idea how he got there. He just wants to…
The conceit of Nadia Conners’ The Uninvited brings to mind plays by the likes of Sam Shepard and Harold Pinter: a wealthy Los Angeles…
Asog’s ambitions are endless and anxious. The movie, crafted by Filipino-Canadian comedian and director Sean Devlin, is a gutsy dyad of narrative and documentary…
Last month, there was Disney’s Snow White, a live-action reimagining of one of the media conglomerate’s most cherished properties. It was a largely dismal…
It’s not exactly a novel idea that many young queer people idealize pop divas to the point of over-identification, and it’s equally well-established culturally…
Tony Jaa, action cinema’s favorite Muay Thai fighter, has faded from the limelight a bit after a quiet decade so far. He entered into…
The crime genre bleeds blue. Crimes tend to be bad, and that makes it easy to establish the police, by the nature of their…
The first film that came to this writer’s mind while watching Haley Elizabeth Anderson’s debut feature Tendaberry was Spike Lee’s 2020 short New York…
Hell of a Summer is an easy film to dislike. A summer camp slasher that unabashedly and quite winkingly wears the skin of its…
In the near-decade since it came out, The Accountant has become a Dad Movie classic, beloved (some might say inexplicably) by anyone looking for…
In a movie titled A Normal Family, one thing can be certain: the family is obligated to abnormality. Hur Jin-ho’s newest film, an adaptation…
About halfway into Courtney Stephens’ new film Invention, a lawyer (filmmaker James Kienitz Wilkins) tells our protagonist, Carrie(Callie Hernandez, co-screenwriter with Stephens), that ideas…
Shot on grainy 16mm and scored by loopy, synth approximations of classical instruments, Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy’s Dead Mail sets up a dialectical…