Rafael Manuel’s debut feature Filipiñana should go down as one of this decade’s great sweaty films. The humidity of its Philippines setting is touched with…
It’s been 30 years since we lost Jon Jost. One shouldn’t worry: the American director is still alive and well, living, working, painting, traveling, and…
A life sentence would seem to afford you a good deal of thinking time. But for Akutsu, a former yakuza facing his last days on…
You’d never know, just by looking at a Jesse V. Johnson picture, that he was working with much smaller budgets than the action you see…
Crows Are White is sharpest when its images expose what director Ahsen Nadeem’s narration would prefer to soften. It is least convincing when, at the…
Punk iconoclast Alex Cox isn’t going away quietly; in fact, he might not be going away at all — but let’s not get in the…
Third verse, same as the first. Yeon Sang-ho’s 2016 rage-zombie opus Train to Busan was a breakout it, largely because of its relentless pace and…
Tucked into his cozy country home in County Wicklow, Ireland, legendary film director John Boorman — of Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, and Excalibur fame —…
Love takes miles. In 1977, PK Mahanandia, a 23-year-old street artist living in Delhi, met the girl he was sure he was destined to marry.…
i. Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy It was Thymoetes, erstwhile soothsayer, who first took to that almighty horse. Hooves aloft, eyes heavenward,…
Beyond a brief cameo from Lin Shaye as Elise, the soft reset for the Insidious franchise removes the Lambert family from the proceedings, taps yet…
“An ode to cinema” — an audacious claim with which to open one’s feature, but audacity courses through the work of Mosotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah…
It’s no secret that Hollywood is currently trying to crack open the secret to Gen Z. What movies get them into a theater? What tests…
In their book The British B Film, writers Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane describe Bond of Fear, an underseen and worthwhile low-budget crime curio from…
The advent of digital cinematography has been both a blessing and a curse in the history of cinema. For one, it’s made film productions far…
History has always been a dumping ground for those in power. It’s littered with, as the affectless narrator in Chris Marker’s 1983 cine-travelogue Sans Soleil…
“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…
On August 11, 1994, major league baseball stopped. The scores on the big beaming boards standing above the outfield wall remained blank, robbed of their…
Shatara Michelle Ford is one of the unsung forces in American Independent cinema. Their debut feature, Test Pattern, was a quiet yet seismic announcement of…
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…