A 40-year-old Japanese woman, Mizuki (Eri Fukatsu), begins to cook by herself, the audience assuming she’s a single career woman stuck in the middle of her dail...
The presence of a mother is quite clear in Chantal Akerman’s best-known work, whether it be the one communicated back and forth to in News From Home or the titu...
As a modern cinephile, there’s the common feeling of being overwhelmed by just how much you have to watch, that even when narrowing the entire history of cinema...
Six (well-off, by implication) men and their dutiful cabin boy (regrettably not played by Chris Elliott) vacation on the Greek coast aboard a yacht. Needing to ...
At only two feature films, Toronto-based writer-director Kazik Radwanski has already formed a clear thematic through line. His previous picture, Tower, was abou...
Something is off within the opening minutes of our Yakuza tale as heavy doses of computer-generated bloodshed elevate the proceedings to, in perhaps an understa...
The opening credits of Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre, with portentous music set against a black background, set off a few warning bells. Has the weight of the human...
We’ve heard it many times before: back in the '50s and '60s, Alfred Hitchcock was considered just a vulgar entertainer, making box-office hits for the unwashed ...
The Winnipeg-based collective Astron-6, film geeks dedicated to trash cinema of the 70’s and 80’s gained a deal of internet nerd attention with Manborg, a shoes...
