The pop music industry is one of single stories. Regardless of the language or nationality of the industry, pop musicians are essentially told to fit…
Crime doesn’t pay the way it used to. At least, that’s the case for the old school petty thieves who would thrive on a practiced…
Don’t ask why, but I’ve been thinking about Belly a lot lately. Yes, it is a charmed life. With every rewatch, it becomes even more…
Ideology is the backbone of cinema. Or, at least that is what Jean-Luc Comolli and Paul Narboni posited nearly 60 years ago in their joint…
For some, Halloween is just a holiday, a brief period of time when the neighborhood is suddenly adorned with frightening accouterments and houses become inundated…
Adaptation isn’t an exact science. Where one film fails for missing the essence of a text, another succeeds despite ignoring the details. Translation in the…
Judd Apatow’s Norm opens, obviously, with a Netflix logo, followed immediately by a digitized “play” icon. A cursor is dragged to the middle of the…
If there is one group that’s not short of tales to tell, it’s Wu-Tang Clan. That rather comes with the territory whenever you’ve got nine…
For the past decade or so, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim have been dancing on either edge of the same cultural black hole. In 2018,…
“The odds of being swallowed by a whale are not zero.” That little factoid is from a promotional tweet by the distributor of Whalefall, a…
Time is an amazing thing. It eludes us as we write, as we speak, read, and breathe, confounding us even more when things don’t follow…
Ok class, raise your hands if you would be excited to watch a nearly three-hour film about chess? I’m sure there are plenty of In…
At first glance, Dominik Moll’s Case 137 looks a lot like his last film, the César-winning The Night of the 12th. That film was a…
Though Western cinephiles are likely most familiar with Herman Yau through the grisly Category III shockers he made with Anthony Wong (Taxi Hunter, The Untold…
There are movies we find undoubtedly bad — movies that get us worked up, that offend us, that ruin our day — but that at…