“As Rotterdam burns, they study Sanskrit verb forms,” is how one iteration of the famous proverb goes. This version of the maxim targets scholars with…
It makes sense that an author like Enid Blyton might enjoy a resurgence in popularity in times like these. War, political turmoil, the looming threat…
It feels like many horror films in recent years begin and end in the pitch meeting. A kooky premise is introduced, funding is secured, and…
45 years after an environmental catastrophe has emptied the sea around Rio de Janeiro, the city’s main entertainment is a televised series of lethal parkour…
A recurring image from Shatara Michelle Ford’s Dreams in Nightmares calls to mind John Ford. In The Searchers, the darkness that frames the bookend shots…
Documentarian Poh Si Teng’s directorial debut American Doctor follows three American physicians who traveled to Gaza to practice medicine at Nasser Hospital at various points…
Ambition can be slippery in the hands of the stoner. With her debut feature, The Wrong Girls, Dylan Meyer sets her aspirations at the height…
Alex Cox loves to make movies. He doesn’t get to do that very often these days, but when he does, they’re more likely than not…
The late Adrienne Shelly’s posthumous 2007 release Waitress was always an odd choice for a musical adaptation, but 10 years after its Broadway debut —…
Will Poulter’s course has been an unconventional one to follow. Breaking through in the UK when he was still a teen in the sketch show…
Cinema has a unique capacity for depicting time, as we all know. But this plasticity — turning “time” into a physical ribbon of pictures and…
Seeing the new KATSEYE documentary in August of 2026 is a lot like seeing a brand new feature from a recently deceased actor. Between filming…
The decadent luxury and moral rot of extreme wealth; a location as isolated as it is idyllic; lithe young bodies glistening in sunlight; the churning…
A nasty, ruthlessly streamlined throwback to the sleepover staples of the Reagan administration, David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street (unofficially) brings the curtain…
Marketed as “a Green Day comedy,” Lee Kirk’s newest film, Nimrods, could more fittingly be described as specious or surprisingly inept. Or, it could be…
Dedicating more attention to the practicalities and criminal underbelly of the farm-to-table honey industry than certainly any fiction film before it, Andrew Patterson’s The Rivals…
Relative to its paltry budget, 2001’s Super Troopers, the second film from American comedy troupe Broken Lizard (consisting of Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme,…
American independent filmmaker and cinematographer Rob Tregenza broke onto the scene with 1988’s Talking to Strangers, a somewhat Jarmuschian dramedy that was notable for being…
It’s a fair response for one to give less importance to mainstream directors when they downplay their themes or politics in interviews, for if the…
Something I learned over many years working in restaurants is that there are no cooks that work in them, no servers, no bartenders, no hosts…
Troubled souls trapped: the parameters of a typical Claire Denis narrative are rarely complex. Beau Travail’s French Foreign Legion soldiers were confined to their base…