True crime documentaries in the streaming era are a dime a dozen, catnip for those who consume their content passively. They can be reasonably diverting…
Jay Roach’s cause is noble. His new movie, The Roses, joins just a handful of contemporaries swinging to break a decades-long theatrical dry spell for…
Late in Angus MacLachlan’s A Little Prayer, as army veteran Bill (David Strathairn) and his daughter-in-law Tammy (Jane Levy) visit an art gallery in their…
Many have written and spoken about how aging differs from growing old. All manner of physical decline may await, but that doesn’t mean our love…
“There is no dead matter,” the narrator’s father proselytizes in Bruno Schulz’s 1937 book Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, “lifelessness is only a…
Since 1974, Troma Entertainment has enjoyed its position as the longest running independent film studio in the world, having been responsible for either the production…
Writing in the second issue of the Southeast Asian film magazine MARG1N, Singaporean wunderkind Yeo Siew Hua lamented the incongruence between filmic and lived reality,…
What really is the Circle of Life for people (and animals) not comfortably positioned inside the perfectly calibrated version of Disneyland? Do the laws and…
The central tension of Caught Stealing — an ostensibly breezy “wrong man” comedic-thriller set in Giuliani-era New York City that finds our besieged main character, Hank…
The erotic thriller has encountered a resurgence in popularity of late, partly due to how well the genre plays at home, making it ideal escapism…
The best action movie franchise of the 2020s is about a couple of teenage slackers who, when they aren’t being incredibly lazy, work as hired…
Noémie Merlant’s The Balconettes begins with a corker of an opening shot. Predominantly taking place at adjoining apartment complexes in Marseille separated by a courtyard, the film…
While hardly the first to do it, Richard Linklater’s masterful execution of the walk-and-talk two-hander with 1995’s Before Sunrise ushered in a wave of similarly…
The marketing for Eenie Meanie touts the film as being the brainchild of “the guys who wrote Deadpool,” which conjures up images of an action-comedy…
“We can’t stay down anymore!” This line from war-victim acting veteran Ni Ni is delivered as Ah Hua captures the galvanizing and inspirational spirit of…
Can an auteur just take the piss every now and then? There’s always something distinctly perverse and ultimately scintillating about major figures going minor. It’s…
Taking a look at a list of the 10 highest-grossing films worldwide of all-time, the suspects are usual: James Cameron sits there thrice, as does…
There’s an innate novelty to Ron Howard directing a film like Eden, and it’s disingenuous not to mention it. The filmmaker has by all reasonable…
Director David Mackenzie has had a fascinating career; in the past, we’d likely consider him a talented journeyman, the sort of solid professional who can…
Alex Russell’s debut feature, Lurker, is a mask-off exploration of rabid stan culture taken to extremes. When ascendant pop star Oliver (Archie Madekwe) walks into…
In all the consternation over the disappearance of the theatrical comedy, a trend hastened by post-Covid viewing habits that find comedies being largely relegated to…