Entering Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, one is immediately faced with a decision. It’s a decision of considerable importance. Standing in the rotunda, one may either go forward,…
Flush 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…
Sham If anyone can make a great Cancel Culture movie, it would have to be Takashi Miike, right? Sham is based on a true story,…
On paper, July was — and is usually — a month earmarked for studios to make their mint, with blockbusters of varying quality demanding half…
Abortion Party Aside from the infamous “Barry Lyndon x ‘a lot’ by 21 Savage” edit that has been circulating on X since last year, the…
The confluence of factors that led to the production of Targets encapsulate the idiosyncratic period in film history it was born into: in 1968, when…
You’re probably familiar. But in case you’re not, back in 1982, relatively fresh off the success of Airplane!, creators Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, and Jim…
For a particular contingent of American moviegoer — one born in the mid-to-late 1980s, say — Happy Gilmore is something of a sacred cow. Its…
“You can’t be a spectator. You gotta take these dreams and make them whole.” After over a decade of releasing music, Pulp’s Different Class album…
The thing about I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) — itself an adaptation of Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel — is that it already…
Together In Michael Shanks’ body-horror-comedy Together, the recently-engaged but longtime-dating couple of Millie and Tim (played by real-life spouses and frequent creative collaborators Alison Brie…
In Michael Shanks’ body-horror-comedy Together, the recently-engaged but longtime-dating couple of Millie and Tim (played by real-life spouses and frequent creative collaborators Alison Brie and…
Lilim An overwhelming sense of familiarity clings to Mikhail Red’s Lilim, which liberally deploys Gothic and folk horror tropes without grasping their inherent power. The…
After Oldboy (2003) won the Grand Prix at a Cannes Film Festival presided over by a Quentin Tarantino-led jury in 2004, an overwhelming amount of…
In 2004, Brad Bird and Pixar released The Incredibles, which at the time was considered one of the best superhero films ever made and —…
What remains of the video store today is a boutique novelty. Unless you happen to live in a neighborhood hip enough to indulge in cinephilic…
In the spring of 1974, The Night Porter was released in Italian cinemas. Directed by Liliana Cavani, the film stars a young Charlotte Rampling as…
Queerpanorama Writer-director Jun Li received a degree in journalism from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and in his self-referential film Queerpanorama, the journalistic impulse…
Back in the winter, the film Companion used the premise of a young “couple” taking their first trip together to a secluded house in the countryside as…
Copper In director Nicolás Pereda’s Copper, Lázaro (Pereda regular Lázaro Rodríguez) discovers a corpse by the side of the road. It’s unusual enough for him…
Like many of you, I first discovered the French New Wave as a budding cinephile in high school. It was my introduction to how the…