Between his feature film debut Monsters and Men in 2018 and the forthcoming Richard Williams (Venus and Serena's father) biopic starring Will Smith, Reinaldo M...
In 1957, Soviet scientists sent an 11-pound mongrel into space. The dog’s name was Laika, and she survived less than seven hours; once the capsule overheated, ...
As far back as I could remember, no film has had such a grand cultural impact than Goodfellas. At my high school in Cape Cod, Massachusetts–a far cry from Scor...
Although Lingua Franca is only Isabel Sandoval’s third film, she already has made her signature recognizable. Her work is astute, impeccably shot, and often in...
Have we enough evidence to name Michael Almereyda the American cinema's greatest biographer? It's a narrow range and hardly the highest bar to clear, yet his o...
Filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine have a unique niche among documentarians: their work, together or apart, often involves liberal people in conservative...
With her fourth feature, writer/director Kris Rey teamed with lead actor Gillian Jacobs (“Love”) to create I Used To Go Here, a comedy focused on a newly publi...
One of my favorite films from last year's Toronto International Film Festival, The Shadow of Violence (renamed from its UK release title Calm with Horses) has ...
With any luck, the name Jayro Bustamante will be well-known by cinephiles near and far very soon. At Sundance earlier this year, I said his third feature La Ll...
With the evocative title of She Dies Tomorrow, one might think they can predict where Amy Seimetz’s second feature is going, but the writer-director is keen to...
