A fair question to ask: why The Sun King now? Perhaps American icons are always ripe for deconstruction as, after all, we have the world’s greatest (or rather d...
Going in with no expectations besides the recent news that the film had been shortlisted for Norway’s 2017 Oscar selection, director Erik Skjoldbjærg's Pyromani...
Here's an elevator pitch: Nocturama is Robert Bresson’s The Devil, Probably in a homegrown-terrorist garb that substitutes transcendental style for the form of ...
Chan Is Missing has long been considered a benchmark in Asian-American cinema -- some would say that, unfortunately, it's by default the benchmark -- but, 34 years later, writer-director Wayne Wang mostly has other things on his mind....
Eyebrows were raised when it was announced that South Korea will submit the as-yet-unreleased espionage thriller The Age of Shadows for Oscar consideration inst...
Writer-director Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Sightseeers, and, most recently, High-Rise) is returning to his crime roots -- his directorial debut was 2009's Dow...
It starts with bubbles. So many bubbles rising slowly in liquid as the opening credits in script font flash onscreen. And when the camera finally pans out to se...
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repe...
Rather than the 1960 version or the film it was based on, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, Antoine Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven brought deja vu of the unexpecte...
