Jane Schoenbrun seems to be embarking on a similar career path to Wes Anderson: complete devotion to a nearly identical thematic hook that ...

Will Gluck’s ONE NIGHT ONLY accidentally captures an undeniable truth about living under fascism: The average person just doesn’t care that much. The ...

Jordan Rowe and I go way back. For most of my life, I knew him as “Rowenet,” just as I was better known ...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER has a title akin to a network procedural, and perhaps that is not an accident. This ...

Like every teenage cinephile in 2011, I worshiped Nicolas Winding Refn’s DRIVE. The combination of the petty crime antics and explosive bloodshed of ...

“A TIME OF APPARENT MAGIC”  Christopher Nolan’s alleged magnum opus, THE ODYSSEY, opens with a title card meant to set a distinct precedent. ...

Beloved by passionate corners of the internet, BACKROOMS, directed by Kane Parsons, creator of the original YouTube series, quickly garnered attention not only ...

In the short film ONE NIGHT, we witness a connection in a diner, but it sparks into much more than that for Margaret ...

The handful of female-led superhero movies struggle with an identity crisis. They often feel afraid to embrace femininity in both aesthetic and complexity. ...

Memoirs From a Picture Show is a semi-regular column from the Merry-Go-Round staff chronicling memories, miracles, and anomalies from our time spent in ...