When Mike Nesmith died last month, he left behind not only a legacy in music, but in film. A look back at the last of his cinematic endeavors:
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‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ is the latest Coen effort exploring a theme present from the beginning of their filmography: the misery of matrimony.
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A dozen titles from Egyptian director Youssef Chahine have popped up on Netflix – including this unnerving, ahead-of-its time character study.
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The new George Clooney film suffers from his usual tics, but is grounded by a wonderful Ben Affleck performance.
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Asghar Farhadi’s latest is another tricky tale of compromised morality and conflicts of both a personal and political nature.
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With Sundance around the corner, we look back at perhaps the most disastrous of Miramax’s many ill-advised, overpriced festival pick-ups.
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From ‘Licorice Pizza’ to ‘Dazed and Confused’ to ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,’ a look at the movies where, as Tarantino puts it, “you hang out with the characters so much that they actually become your friends.”
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Two men sit on an idyllic suburban lawn, creating a mirror image of one another that suggests an inherent balance in their world – That is, until a single flower sprouts directly onto their shared property line, leading the two to come to blows, each claiming ownership over it. Neighbours, an experimental stop-motion short from […]
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When author Anne Rice died at the age of 80 in December 2021, she left behind a huge body of work, including dozens of bestselling novels, most of which focus on supernatural creatures (vampires, witches, werewolves, Jesus Christ). But despite selling more than 100 million copies of her books in her lifetime, Rice has a […]
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And we wrap up the year with our favorite films from it, an eclectic mixture of prestige drama, documentary, comedy, and genre pictures.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal makes an electrifying feature directorial debut with this stunning adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novel.
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Joel Coen’s impressive solo directorial debut presents Shakespeare’s tragedy as a stylized, bloody thriller – and showcases stunning performances by Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand.
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