From their screenplay for Alexander Payne’s The Descendants to their joint directorial debut, 2013’s The Way Way Back, Nat Faxon and […]
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It’s significant that Portrait of a Lady on Fire is written and directed by a woman–Celine Sciamma–as well as photographed by […]
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For a group of professional ghost hunters, the main characters in Camp Cold Brook are surprisingly unhappy to discover that the […]
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It would be easy for Come as You Are to turn into a cloying, condescending lecture about how the disabled are […]
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DC Comics’ Gotham City has not traditionally been a kind place for women. Bruce Wayne’s mother Martha was assassinated in the […]
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Knowing a little about Come to Daddy’s creative pedigree is probably the biggest indicator of your potential reaction to this wild […]
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Horace B. Jenkins’s Cane River (opening in Brooklyn this Friday) is one of those stories of cinematic archaeology where the backstory […]
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At this point, the “Help, I’m trapped in a time loop!” premise has become a Hollywood staple — don’t forget that […]
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Kajillionaire is writer-director Miranda July’s first feature film in nine years, and while it’s set in the present day, you’d be […]
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Christmas-themed horror movies have become a thriving subgenre in recent years, providing micro-budget horror filmmakers with easy subject matter and plenty […]
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Horror filmmakers love to build stories filled with outrageous furnishings, but any lasting power their movies have is due to how […]
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If nothing else, the low-key Canadian drama The Rest of Us makes a surprisingly strong case for Heather Graham as a […]
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