Moments in pop music come and go, but none in recent memory have been eulogized quite like brat summer. Within a year, the promotional tail…
As the Hong Kong film industry has been devoured by Mainland China, drawing its stars and directors away with the promise of big budgets and…
Maryam Touzani’s Calle Málaga won the Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival’s new Spotlight Section, and the film is accordingly an audience-pleaser. Following her…
Film adaptations of video games can be a dicey proposition. Part of the issue lies in the elements getting lost in translation: the inherently immersive…
Director Suzannah Herbert’s documentary Natchez, which counts Sam Pollard among its executive producers and won this year’s Documentary Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival, captures…
There is a motif at the center of Hlynur Palmason’s latest feature, The Love That Remains. A static camera, its gaze affixed to the seaside…
We don’t have many stars like Jason Statham left. If the ‘80s gave us a plethora of iconic tough guys, the ensuing decades have whittled…
Very few actors elevate low-budget action cinema like Milla Jovovich, who is front and center in all of the marketing of Brad Anderson’s latest genre…
Director Isao Yukisada is something of a chameleon. Having gotten his start as an assistant director for Shunji Iwai, with whom he worked on five…
The life of the tortured artist: society doesn’t understand them, friends and family abandon them, their audience doesn’t appreciate their work. From the artist’s perspective,…
The score of Jan-Ole Gerster’s Islands is one of the first signals about its intended genre and reference points: with lush, orchestral strings overlaid by…
The unknowables that inform the maintenance and dissolution of familial relationships are, for Hylnur Pálmason, generative. Fittingly, then, his new film, The Love That Remains,…
A spiritual cousin to 2009’s financial crisis-set Drag Me to Hell, the new film Send Help announces the much anticipated return of Sam Raimi, horror…
Some day, our future will be someone else’s past. Arco, the titular co-protagonist of illustrator, comic book author, and short film director Ugo Bienvenu’s debut…
Most even casual moviegoers are probably already familiar with the Screenlife subgenre, but for those who aren’t hip to the terminology, it’s made up of…
In 2014, Helen MacDonald released a memoir detailing the death of their beloved father, noted photojournalist Alisdair MacDonald, and their adoption of a goshawk as…
Joe Carnahan’s career has been relatively erratic since his still very well-regarded breakout feature Narc from 2002. Since, he’s mostly churned out gritty but generic…
Setting themselves far apart from most of the indie/DIY horror scene that focuses on squeaky exploitation thrills and slasher stuff (not that there’s anything wrong…
M3GAN is dead, long live Monkey. In 2022, Gerard Johnstone’s yassified murder doll injected new life into the January horror canon, TikTok dancing across the…
28 Years Later pushed the blockbuster forward by just as many years, shaking off the ubiquitous flat and sterile look forced down our throats by…
A tasteless trend in movie marketing to reveal titles one letter at a time transitioned seamlessly into movie-making at some point in the last decade…