When I heard that Feast of the Epiphany, the inaugural feature film from the publication Reverse Shot, melded documentary and fiction, […]
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Are we ever truly able to escape the past? The mistakes that we’ve made, opinions we’ve held, and lines that we’ve […]
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One of my favorite flavors of indie horror is the mixtape, lovingly dubbed by filmmakers from an oddball greatest hits of […]
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Coming on the heels of last year’s documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, the unabashedly adoring Mister Rogers story A Beautiful […]
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Rian Johnson’s Knives Out is both a loving tribute to the murder mystery genre and a scathing satire of white privilege […]
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Disney’s Frozen has remained an impressive cultural phenomenon since it hit theaters in 2013. We’ve now had six years of little […]
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What wild and unnatural spirits exist in the depths of the forest, possessing an ancient and eternal power far beyond our […]
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Society tends not to bat an eyelid at intergenerational relationships so long as the elder member of the pairing is a […]
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In the aftermath of war, especially one as psychologically scarring as World War II, people become obsessed with black and white. […]
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Holiday movies, especially Christmas movies, tend to be high-concept affairs, featuring guardian angels, kid-made booby traps, or ghosts haunting a miserly […]
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In Guatemalan writer/director Jayro Bustamante’s feature debut, Ixcanul (2016), the filmmaker shone a light on how an indigenous community around the […]
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There’s a lot to like in The Shed, the feature debut of writer-director Frank Sabatella, but there is also, well, just […]
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