It was, of course, a shock to the cinematic system that Jean-Luc Godard—let's see... film's single most important living figure?—would retire after the complet...
Justin Kurzel doesn't make it easy. Notwithstanding the oddity that is his Assassin's Creed movie, the Australian auteur has distinct eyes for horrors—so we se...
Few films in Cannes, competition or otherwise, have us excited like Arnaud Desplechin's Deception, the director's adaptation of Philip Roth's erotic, dialogue-...
Annette has been birthed and, surprise of surprises, initial reaction to a Leos Carax-directed, Sparks-penned musical proves divisive. In any case, we (the bes...
Was Robert Downey Sr. the world's greatest director? A bold claim for anybody, a very bold claim when the director in question hadn't produced anything for dec...
Brief but stirring, vague if not for lack of worthwhile images, here's the first teaser for Ahed's Knee, the new film from Synonyms director Nadav Lapid. Littl...
If, initially, I am not quite sure what to do with the knowledge that Val Kilmer has "amassed thousands of hours of footage" shot over 40 years, my being nonpl...
If the list of great and notable directors with whom Charlotte Gainsbourg's collaborated is longer than my arm, new, one wonders why it took this long for her ...
Another week passes, another (likely) excellent Hong Sangsoo film premieres. Just five months since Berlinale selection Introduction will the South Korean mast...
The greatest sci-fi franchise of our lifetime is not Star Wars, Star Trek, and certainly not anything in the comic realm. It's The Matrix, obviously, and we po...
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.
