Arriving at the tail end of this year is a film with quite some pedigree. For her directorial debut, Maggie Gyllenhaal has adapted one of the most acclaimed wr...
Following up his lovely, meditative debut feature August at Akiko's, Christopher Makoto Yogi returned this year with I Was a Simple Man, a serene ghost story s...
It looks like Sonic Drive-In will not be the last American brand that Terrence Malick captures on film. As the director continues to toil away in the editing r...
2022 (Christ, 2022?) is on the horizon, and rest assured: Criterion continues. Their new year starts auspiciously with a mix of old and new, first-timers and r...
It's a great time for John Carpenter fans. While, no, he might never make another movie, the musical output in recent years has been positively voluminous: the...
Earlier this year we called, without hesitation or compunction, Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back one of 2021's most-anticipated films. If the first traile...
The fall movie season is so packed that it's easy to forget we have a new Abel Ferrara movie coming—a good one, to hear word. After winning Locarno's Best Dire...
Though Mank did not do us a world of goodwill, David Fincher is David Fincher, and David Fincher in airport-thriller mode is more fun than most things. Hence o...
It's a story deserving its own film: Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Reza Aslani's Chess of the Wind had three public screenings, likely recognized as the remarkabl...
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is certainly one of the greatest festival winners in recent years—a designation I don't assign just (just) because of the name. ...
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.
