Brie Larson won the Best Actress Oscar earlier this year for Room, but for our money, her best performance thus far remains Short Term 12. After a few years...
Riding an ultralight beam like few other artists this year, Chance the Rapper not only was the best part of Kanye West's new album, but soon after he releas...
Coming off of the success of It Follows, we imagine writer-director David Robert Mitchell had his fair share of studio meetings about the latest horror rema...
Another week, another new James Franco film. Following up Goat and King Cobra, his next project is Burn Country (formerly titled The Fixer), a winner a this...
"Movie magic" is a perhaps over-used term bandied about for all types of filmmaking techniques, but there's some genuinely special about a specific type of ...
Not only does Jim Jarmush have Paterson and Gimme Danger this fall, but he also produced -- and is featured in -- Uncle Howard, a new documentary from direc...
After The Visit, it looks like M. Night Shyamalan has found his sweet spot of effective thrills heading into lower budget territory with Blumhouse. They've ...
Dito Montiel helped lead Shia LaBeouf to one of his best performances exactly a decade ago with A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. While both the director ...
Mark Lee Ping-Bing, long-time Hou Hsiao-hsien collaborator (including his most recent film, the stunning The Assassin) and cinematographer of the luminous I...
With its idiosyncratic soundtrack, energetic performances from its electic cast, and entertaining pop aesthetic, James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy proved...
After graduating from Hampshire College with a degree in music theory, Leonard Pearce turned his passions to film and writing. He lives in upstate NY with his wife Laura and cat Tardi.
