Jacob Oller

[Review] Neither Heaven Nor Earth

Ursula K. LeGuin wrote that war is the opposite of civilization -- you have one or the other, not both. Clément Cogitore's debut feature, Neither Heaven Nor Ear...

[Review] Don’t Blink – Robert Frank

Few people are living embodiments of their style. Now that David Bowie and Prince have left us in the same year, even fewer are. Robert Frank, the subject of La...

[Review] Rio, I Love You

The third and final film in the “Cities of Love” trilogy, following odes to Paris and New York City, Rio, I Love You collects ten short films about love in Rio ...

[Review] Above and Below

Writer-director Nicolas Steiner’s graduation film has nothing to do about moving on to new stages of life. Above and Below, his dramatized documentary, rather h...

[Review] My Big Night

My Big Night tells you what it is right up front: big with a capital "B," a maximalist extravaganza satirizing the day-to-day life on a show business set that h...

[ND/NF Review] I Promise You Anarchy

I Promise You Anarchy, by writer-director Julio Hernández Cordón, titillates equally with its queer sensuality and noirish crime, neither of which is entirely t...

[Review] Born to Be Blue

I played jazz trumpet growing up in Oklahoma, so Chet Baker’s somber swing always brought our ensemble back to earth when Dizzy Gillespie’s flying fingers sent ...

[ND/NF Review] Nakom

Nakom is the first movie produced in Ghana's Kusaal language, made by directorial duo T.W. Pittman and Kelly Daniela Norris after the former’s Peace Corps stint...

[Review] City of Gold

Criticism can be a lot of things. Cheerleading, examination, storytelling, pathfinding. But the heart of it all is opening a dialogue, no matter the intention. ...

Jacob Oller