The premise for Forbidden Fruits hints at escalating acts of witchcraft driven by an all-female coven, while marketing materials are quick to push the involvement…
In This Dispatch: Dao, We Are the Fruits…
If one recently saw Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, which featured Satanic cult members out to murder a young woman who was trying…
In the last decade or two, it often feels like action comedy speaks one language. You can blame Ryan Reynolds if you’d like, or maybe…
A man emerges from the forest, destitute. We follow him as he shambles through the streets, parks, hills, and graveyards of Cluj-Napoca. It’s his last…
Julian of Norwich was a religious mystic and anchoress in the Middle Ages. After a grave illness during which she experienced visions of Christ on…
There’s certainly a long, intertwining history of cinema and science. Topics in biology, environmentalism, astronomical observation, and human-technology relations have remained at the forefront of…
With most established classics of cinema, it only takes a little work to extrapolate what each sequence is meant to convey to the viewer, but…
Balthazar — or Balthy, as he would be to his friends, if he had any — is a bright kid. But when your family’s rich…
From its opening frame, you realize that Caroline Golum isn’t interested in creating a world you’d recognize as “real” in her newest feature, Revelations of…
In This Dispatch: Dao, We Are the Fruits…
It might be a little premature to have the “late style” conversation with regard to the highly prolific Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who turns 69 in July.…
Documentarian Angelo Madsen, in his new documentary of BDSM performance artist Fakir Musafar, captured a tension at the heart of Musafar’s philosophy within the film’s…
The time travel mob comedy Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice opens with the actor Ben Schwartz singing a foul-mouthed rendition of the Billy…
In just a few short years, it’s been a thrill to watch Alice Maio Mackay’s ascension. From her debut feature, So Vam, to Carnage For…
As loglines go, a Chloë Sevigny-narrated, archive-heavy documentary about an infamous, largely discredited dolphin scientist has a kind of whimsical ring to it. And indeed,…
As of this writing, filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay turned 21 less than a week ago. She has also just premiered her sixth feature length film…
Marc Jacobs is everywhere. In Marc by Sofia — the Sofia of the title being Coppola — the Lost in Translation director makes a case…
Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid isn’t shy about his disgust toward his home country. A body of work examining Israel with a sense of frustration and…
One would be hard-pressed to identify a film director on the world stage who has done a better job of articulating our historical moment than…
In the face of ongoing, ever-intensifying genocide, nuance is arguably out of order, and so agit-prop wisdom becomes a creative’s necessary juice. But for Israeli…