In many respects, each of the works by Wang Bing at Cannes this year exemplifies the now-reigning axes of Wang’s interests and style. Youth (Spring)…
What’s the actual value of a documentary about Elon Musk in 2026, let alone an exhaustive one that runs nearly four hours long? Like President…
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle’s Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency opens with a bright red “WARNING. This film contains environmental destruction, explicit ecosexuality and…
Renny Harlin has no competition. That he has managed to corner the market on a genre-diverse yet highly specific form of popular filmmaking is somewhat…
In the mid 2000s, American duo Silibil N’ Brains were the next big thing in rap. The only problem? They weren’t actually American. Instead, Gavin…
Over drinks at a lounge in Hollywood, Chris Rock tells Rosalind Eleazar that if you go anywhere in America, there’s a chance that at some…
Setting one’s low-budget genre film in a single setting is a time-honored tradition, a money-saving maneuver that makes for a simple calling-card exercise but which…
There’s a spectrum of certain psychologically- or chemically-rooted qualities that most people who participate in extreme sports must have in order to succeed. But others,…
As the growth and ubiquity of AI continues to accelerate at a terrifyingly rapid rate, so do the horror films that seek to capitalize on…
The raw, almost feral energy that Margaret Qualley can bring to her best roles often exists in fascinating tension with the serenity of her wide-eyed…
Partway through Verity, Dakota Johnson’s protagonist, well on her way to seducing her employer’s husband (played by Josh Hartnett), takes a bite out of a…
Where do you start with something like Digger? It’s smug, self-satisfied, cynical, but also genuinely bleak and actually pretty thoughtful. It wants desperately to be…