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In 1985, CBS relaunched “The Twilight Zone,” placing the groundbreaking property in the hands of luminaries of speculative fiction, including Harlan Ellison and George R.R. Martin. Given this pedigree,...
View ArticleFrom the Vaults of Streaming Hell: We Are What We Are
Directed by Jim Mickle from a script co-written by Nick Damici, We Are What We Are is constructed within a recognizable diegesis. There is the small town in upstate New York that has suffered the...
View ArticleScaffolding
The feature-length narrative debut of writer-director Matan Yair, Scaffolding is a gentle yet chilly exploration of teenage life. Though it’s set in a small town outside Tel Aviv, U.S. audiences may...
View ArticleA Star is Born
“There is no new thing under the sun.” That well-worn adage from Ecclesiastes is repurposed late into A Star is Born. A character, heartbroken and wizened, ruminates on the nature of songwriting....
View ArticleOeuvre: Weerasethakul: The Adventure of Iron Pussy
It seems surprising, considering the wide acclaim granted to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s other work, that The Adventure of Iron Pussy is so infrequently discussed. That this master of the...
View ArticleThe Old Man & the Gun
As a film, some may find David Lowery’s The Old Man & the Gun little more than a charming trifle, but as a proper send-off for star Robert Redford’s storied career, it’s positively rapturous....
View ArticleThe Hate U Give
Ripped-from-the-headlines films are tricky. Film-going is, for many, an act of escapism. So seeing the same subject on both the evening news and the big screen is less than ideal, particularly if the...
View ArticleVenom
Ever since Marvel brought Spider-Man into the MCU, Sony has been greenlighting multiple projects starring supporting characters from his corner of the Marvel Universe, creating an umbrella of...
View ArticleHeavy Trip
Despite their penchant for extreme subjects and gruesome aesthetics, your run-of-the-mill metalhead tends to be a reserved, thoughtful and outright pleasant individual. Veganism, feminism and social...
View ArticleAwait Further Instructions
In Await Further Instructions, horror begins to unfurl like an unsettling scenario in “The Twilight Zone”: a dysfunctional family that has gathered for Christmas wakes up to find the house encased in a...
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Rediscover: An Actor’s Revenge
Kon Ichikawa’s An Actor’s Revenge (1963) is a completely batshit remake of the 1935 film of the same name. It tells story of Yukinojo (Kazuo Hasegawa), an onnagata (a Kabuki male actor who plays...
View ArticleLiyana
Swaziland is a land-locked nation-state that, on a map, appears as a polka dot on the edge of the broader expanse of South Africa. It maintains a fierce pride in its Swazi culture and features wild...
View ArticlePrivate Life
Two decades after directing the funny, subversive, and feminist-focused feature Slums of Beverly Hills, Tamara Jenkins takes another look at people in a bustling city trying to deal with societal and...
View ArticleCriminally Underrated: Cedar Rapids
At the turn of the decade, mainstream American comedy cinema was riding a wave almost primarily generated by the style and professional network of one person: Judd Apatow. Beginning with The...
View ArticleFree Solo
Most world-class athletes eventually perform their physical prowess in front of live masses of people and cameras. For some, such as LeBron James, television coverage and sold-out arenas is a banal and...
View ArticleOeuvre: Weerasethakul: Tropical Malady
The two halves of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Tropical Malady initially feel so distinct that it seems as if it the film could have been sold as a double feature. The first half is a gentle gay...
View ArticleBad Times at the El Royale
Fans Drew Goddard (“Lost,” The Cabin in the Woods) may be disappointed to find that as the writer-director of Bad Times at the El Royale he has gone more Tarantino than Twilight Zone. The bigger...
View ArticleFirst Man
Damien Chazelle lays out his approach to the moon race of the 1960s from the first scene of First Man, which involves not a spaceflight but a high-altitude X-15 jet test flight piloted by Neil...
View ArticleThe Oath
If you think your holiday get togethers are bad with Donald Trump as president, take a look at The Oath, in which one family’s petty bickering and political disputes gives way to a violent hostage...
View ArticleI Still See You
It’s probably a warning sign when a director’s strongest feature is a Step Up movie, but such is the case with journeyman Scott Speer. The San Diego native graduated from Paris Hilton and Ashley...
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