Revisit: Midnight Run
Released in 1988, Midnight Run was among the first entries in the quintessential ‘90s subgenre of male buddy action-comedies. Its director, Martin Brest, had helped popularize the action-comedy a few...
View ArticleThe Painter and the Thief
At first, The Painter and the Thief feels like merely a gimmick. We’re served with the setup almost instantly—a Czech painter named Barbora Kysilkova forms a relationship with the man who stole two of...
View ArticleMilitary Wives
Military Wives is the type of movie that provokes thoughts about the power of formula. Based on true events and directed by Peter Cattaneo, the Oscar nominated director of The Full Monty, the film...
View ArticleThe Trip to Greece
Could there be a worse time for The Trip to Greece to bow? In this fourth installment, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon (playing outsized versions of themselves), again go on a road trip in a beautiful...
View ArticleFrom the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Murder Party
Whether channeled through Alex DeLarge in Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange or Matt Dillon’s sadistic title character in von Trier’s The House that Jack Built, violence as art is a fairly prevalent concept...
View ArticleJoan of Arc
Bruno Dumont’s deliberately paced Joan of Arc, a follow-up to 2017’s Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc, invests itself in the people. While the story, adapted from Charles Peguy’s play of the...
View ArticleOeuvre: Argento: The Stendhal Syndrome
Following in the footsteps of his previous film, Trauma, Dario Argento swaps mining his daughter’s eating disorder for giallo set dressing to explore his own experiences with 1996 film The Stendhal...
View ArticleThe High Note
The cinematic landscape has changed drastically due to recent global events and though the canceling of red carpet premieres and the movement of theatrical releases to on-demand services is a...
View ArticleThe Vast of Night
Contrast between the familiar and the otherworldly, between visual and aural imagery, colors The Vast of Night. At first blush, Andrew Patterson’s debut feature appears as a straightforward story about...
View ArticlePapicha
The Algerian civil war that wracked North Africa with sectarian violence and massacres of civilians in the ‘90s began after secular forces negated the results of a popular election that saw the Islamic...
View ArticleI Will Make You Mine
In the final installment of an indie trilogy (of sorts), we finally catch up with Goh Nakamura, the folk-pop musician who played a version of himself in two films at the beginning of last decade. In...
View ArticleThe Grey Fox
The re-release of Phillip Borsos’ The Grey Fox is cause for celebration. Initially finding its way to theaters in 1982, the film was stuck in distribution purgatory for years before finally, this year,...
View ArticleRediscover: Antigone
The cinema of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet is perched at the fulcrum between many seeming oppositions in technique and intent. They frequently adapted the classics of Greek dramaturgy while...
View ArticleEnd of Sentence
There are generally two types of road movies. The first type is the romp, using the close confines of vehicular interiors, hotel rooms and gas stations to pit two (or more) contrasting personalities...
View ArticleHallowed Be Thy Name
Some films remind you of youth and summer days draping a boom mic over your shoulders to help a friend realize a dream. Some films remind you of your early adulthood as a screenwriter and all the...
View ArticleHoly Hell! Cast Away Turns 20
The fantasy of surviving on a deserted island is an evergreen theme. For this reason alone, Cast Away feels like a film that will always speak to us, and its beautifully executed script and Tom Hanks’...
View ArticleBecky
The most interesting thing about Home Alone is that, through all his elaborate tricks and traps, Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister should have killed his assailants on multiple occasions. Yet, being...
View Article2040
With all the righteous and warranted fervor in the air at the moment, it’s difficult to imagine what the world will look like 20 days from now, much less 20 years. But Aussie actor/filmmaker Damon...
View ArticleTommaso
Abel Ferrara’s cinema is a study of characters struggling to escape the rot of themselves and society, people whose tendency toward violence is a manifestation of a violent culture and whose attempts...
View ArticleYou Don’t Nomi
One thing you discover if you live long enough is that people will try to convince you that horrible movies you grew up watching are not only good but misunderstood classics. This phenomenon has...
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