A Georgia good ol’ boy who takes a vow of silence until he achieves his dream of becoming the world’s greatest […]
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With each new Pixar release, there’s a temptation to immediately see where it ranks. How does it stack up to The […]
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Typically, the heroes of Westerns are rugged cowboys, bombastic outlaws, or noble sheriffs. They are men with a sneer on their […]
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The inmates who break out of Pretoria Central Prison are imprisoned for their political activities, but the context is mostly irrelevant […]
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Ricky Tollman’s Run This Town begins in a bout of stylistic frenzy that defines the ambitions, if not the overall tone, […]
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Although he’s still best known for being John Travolta’s brother, for a while in the ’90s and ’00s Joey Travolta carved […]
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The sheer volume of independent movies is certainly a net good for the cinematic landscape, offering up more stories, more voices, […]
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Midsommar. The Invisible Man. Hereditary. It’s a common staple of horror, but lately lots of genre films have featured (white) women […]
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Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man feels like three kinds of genre films melded together. One is a thriller about escaping an […]
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It’s tempting to pretend that Gene Hackman’s career ended with The Royal Tenenbaums. Three-plus decades after his breakout performance in Bonnie […]
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Blood on Her Name opens with a scene of intense immediacy. A young woman stands above a man’s corpse lying in […]
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“What happened?” the doctor in Sex Madness asks, of a female patient who’s come to him with a case of syphilis. […]
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