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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There are no legal skirmishes in Ford v Ferrari. The battles between the automakers take place in boardrooms, racetracks, and other […]
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“Another movie from an old TV show,” sighs a character at the beginning of 2000’s Charlie’s Angels when confronted with the […]
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1999 is considered one of the strongest years of cinema in living memory. There will no doubt be countless articles in […]
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Income inequality has seldom been funnier than in Parasite, a scathing satire-farce-tragedy-horror from South Korea’s Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer, The Host) in […]
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The one advantage of Nicolas Cage starring in approximately 87 straight-to-video movies a year for the past decade is that he […]
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Not all Christmas movies need to be great art. The Hallmark Channel, Lifetime and even Netflix have proven that for every […]
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In a way, The Irishman speaks to the odd crossroads where we find ourselves in the midst of the streaming wars. […]
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The opening of Graham Swon’s debut feature, The World is Full of Secrets, is intriguing and odd: a shadowy background of […]
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