In the decades during Bush’s Global War on Terror that became Obama’s, then Trump’s, then Biden’s, there was a sense of resistance that permeated among…
The mid-to-late ’90s into the early 2000s felt like a boom period for scrappy, singular, and DIY indie queer cinema. From Go Fish to Watermelon…
For over a decade, many cinephiles’ one touchpoint for the high watermark in martial arts cinema has been The Raid. It’s for good reason. Gareth…
Film festivals can feel like these nebulous, sometimes exploitative, labyrinthine constructs. At their best, however, they should hopefully be a place to foster creation and…
A woman gazes out a window before heading to an event to receive an award. As the pleasantries die down, her smile fades, and she…
While some cinema traditionalists may wring their hands at the prospect of YouTubers taking over the world, we’re at a point where it’s no longer…
Shot on a Sony PD150 handheld, with very few, if any, location permits, and a lead actress change halfway through production, City Wide Fever shouldn’t…
Sometimes you just want to be scared. Is that too much to ask? Not if you’re Damian Mc Carthy. Across three features, the Irish director…
Arnaud Desplechin cares very little for narrative cohesion. In a career filled with elliptical, loose threads as films, Two Pianos finds the director at his…
Few manga adaptations are as alive as Sho Miyake’s Two Seasons, Two Strangers. There are no bright, poppy explosions of color or wacky antics within…
It’s never easy admitting that you’re getting old. As we round the corner into the mid-2020s, an entire generation has to reckon with the idea…
A legend like Kiyoshi Kurosawa might not need any introduction, but what you find out when talking with him is that he’s very different from…
To watch a Pete Ohs film is to watch a film unspool right before your eyes. While that may sound obvious — all movies play…
Few filmmakers have the benefit of having real, honest-to-goodness hype around their debut feature. Many of our best talents come out of nowhere with very…
Ben Wheatley has done it all. From humble beginnings with killer indies like Down Terrace and Kill List to Hollywood mega-productions like Rebecca and The…
Liminal spaces are all the rage these days. You can’t scroll for five minutes on any given social media app without seeing an image or…
In just a few short years, the resonance of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, a film already laced with devastating history and complications,…
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…
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 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…
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…