This year’s New York Film Festival is markedly different. I’m usually distantly creeping on Tilda Swinton or Martin Scorsese in Alice Tully Hall ...

Two of the most savagely reviewed films of 2020, ANTEBELLUM and THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME, don’t fare much better over here at ...

On September 15th, The Criterion Collection finally released Claire Denis’s military masterpiece BEAU TRAVAIL (1999) on Blu-Ray and DVD for our viewing pleasure. ...

This writer does not possess graduate-level education in semiotics, so he doesn’t really get i’m thinking of ending things, but he’ll try. The ...

Is there any other director more self-conscious with the camera than Alfred Hitchcock? The “master of suspense” has an almost pathological paranoia of ...

In 1978, a naturopathic doctor told 48-year-old Barbara Loden that her cancer may have developed because she hadn’t cried enough. He advised her ...

It’s a lot easier to comprehend politics in a fascist police state. Growing up as a teenager in the Obama era felt like ...

Recent COVID-affected VOD releases, TESLA and SHE DIES TOMORROW, are daring & noble efforts, but ultimately fumble the bag in moments when it ...

There are certain stereotypes that arise when one discusses Indian cinema, stereotypes which are not completely unfounded. Realistically, if Bollywood filmmakers want their ...

Did someone murder the studio comedy or did it kill itself? I know I’m supposed to mourn the bygone days of mid-budget, star-led ...