The history of film is filled with fascinating symmetries, with Edison’s early kinescopes like Fred Ott’s Sneeze and The Kiss resembling the kinds of stories f...
Jamojaya begins with a bang. In an interview, up-and-coming rapper James (Brian “Rich Brian” Imanuel) fires his father (Yayu A.W. Unru) as his manager. The sto...
Early into Raine Allen-Miller’s Rye Lane, the London-set romantic comedy shows a sense of newness. Using fisheye lenses, zooming close-ups, and integrated flas...
It's of course common to overlook the Slamdance Film Festival, which boldly (nobly?) runs concurrent with a better-known, phonetically similar exhibition, but ...
Reaching a wider audience with 2020's The Killing of Two Lovers, writer-director Robert Machoian and star Clayne Crawford are back with their follow-up, The In...
If a film could immortalize our screen-infested age, what would it look like? Restlessly playful and joyfully cacophonous, YuHan Teng’s Gagaland offers an eloq...
In the quiet, peaceful mornings that ease your way into writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s A Little Prayer, a woman belts out gospel songs that echo down the b...
A frank celebration of a pre-Giuliani New York, Kristen Lovell and Zachary Drucker's The Stroll explores a unique period from the inside. Lovell––an actress, a...
From its hilarious use of social media montages to the oversized white Telfar bag that seems to almost swallow one of its characters whole, Sebastián Silva’s R...
Although it takes less than half an hour to drive from Ciudad Juárez to El Paso, the cities might as well be located on different planets. Mexico's Ciudad Juár...
