People are increasingly alarmed at the prospect of AI infiltrating creative work, turning humans into unnecessary appendages in the process of making movies, art,…
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…
That hunk in the romance novel you’re reading — what if he was real and ready to mingle? That’s the entertaining and confident premise…
Ma Dong-seok does it again in Netflix’s Badland Hunters. Like most of his notable roles post-Train to Busan (2016), he plays a haymaking Byronic…
Any new dystopian science fiction release on Netflix — TV show, live-action film, animation, short, whatever — emanates a deep sense of foreboding. This…
If there is one subgenre that has sadly been neglected in the 21st century, it’s that of the airplane thriller, where the action unfurls…
Credit where credit is due to Dan Levy, Good Grief is more than just an attempt to recapture the magic of Schitt’s Creek, the…
The superficial recreations of the Wes Anderson AestheticTM have kickstarted a new metric in art evaluation based on their ease of A.I. appropriation. While…
Tseng Ying-Ting’s crime drama The Abandoned announces itself with New Year’s Eve fireworks, a pretty little ditty in the form of Yazoo’s “Only You,”…
Once a discarded pitch for a Star War, now even before it’s released an already-truncated first half of an eventually-six-hour techno-fantasy epic, Zack Snyder’s…
In October of 1972, a chartered airplane carrying four dozen people including a Uruguayan rugby team and their friends and families crashed in the Andes. Those who weren’t killed upon impact or…
Director George C. Wolfe’s biopic and period piece Rustin opens with recreations of several iconic Civil Rights-era scenes: Tougaloo College students and faculty doused…
As in this past winter’s Knock at the Cabin, a would-be idyllic vacation serves as microcosm for fissures in the great American experiment, in…
A Chicken Run sequel is like an admission of defeat from Aardman Animations, as is the upcoming Wallace and Gromit film. They seem to…
When the 2018 remake of old Hollywood standby A Star is Born dropped, it marked the culmination of over a decade’s worth of effort…
Once again, we’ve arrived at that most wonderful time of the year. Which means, as all around we begin to see candy canes, silver…
Taking inspiration from the Mary Kay Letourneau-Vili Fualaau scandal that roiled the tabloids for much of the ’90s, Todd Haynes’ May December is, at its most…
In one of the many gnomic remarks of his Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein writes: “When ‘I raise my arm’, my arm rises. And now a…