Sometimes you can tell right away that you’re in for a thoroughly generic bit of junk food, but that’s not always instructive of quality. Often,…
In a depressive musical landscape where the only things popstars seem to sing about are wanting to have sex, having sex, and regretting having sex,…
If you weren’t around to experience it in real time, it will be hard to grasp how seismic the 2002 FIFA World Cup feud between…
Given the franchise’s downward trajectory since its requel resurrection, reasonable hopes were never bound to be high for Scream 7. But then came the reprehensible…
There is a scene, not long into Werner Herzog’s Ghost Elephants, that may explain the purpose behind not only this movie, but the entire catalog…
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! brashly announces in its opening title card that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein on a dare, and that’s an ethos the film itself has…
We need to talk about Tommy. In Jan Komasa’s Heel, Tommy (Anson Boon) is a proper hooligan. His nights out mean rails of cocaine in…
Hoppers, the latest animation project from Pixar/Disney, exceeds according to at least one important metric: it’s a familiar product, offering easily consumable family-fare and realizing…
For the most part, the documentaries that have made Gianfranco Rosi’s reputation have a firm basis in geography. Sacro GRA (2013) explored life in Rome…
It’s been a long and winding to get Psycho Killer to the big screen. The film is the brainchild of screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, who…
After nearly half a decade of putting out two movies per year, Hong Sang-soo has slowed from a full-on sprint to a jogger’s pace, releasing…
Wet Hot American Summer earned a well-deserved place in the enduring cultural zeitgeist, both because of its audacious, devil-may-care flavor of humor and because it…
Ever since Terrence Malick pretty much pulled it off with The Tree of Life, every few years another auteur — usually in the sci-fi idiom…
An old army colleague of mine, Colonel Cosgrove, wept today. He wept at a world so crude and bleak. “Could it be,” his red eyes…
You might not know Nick Corirossi, but if you’ve spent enough time in alt-comedy circles, you may have heard of his alter-ego. “Bug Mane” is…
The Bluff isn’t the same kind of pirate film as Pirates of the Caribbean. Unlike the leviathan Disney franchise, The Bluff has very little seafaring,…
Allow this writer to save you some time: Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC, a concert film made in the wake of the eponymous director’s newfound (and lucrative)…
Occasionally something enters the streaming/DTV action space that genuinely merits curiosity, even when the project doesn’t quite live up to its potential. Marking a perfect…
Beware the multi-hyphenate. Though there are plenty of examples of cross-disciplinary artists who are successful in more than one realm, it’s worth treating the feature…
Isaac Florentine is still considered one of the old-school best of the DTV action directors. He’s credited with helping to popularize the format with his…
A surprisingly faithful retelling of the Ealing Studios comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (although one has to dig around in the film’s credits to confirm…