While director Anthony Banua-Simon uses the revelation as a sort of "gotcha" moment to end his documentary Cane Fire, hearing Kauai-native Larry Rivera—an ente...
“He’s the fastest man alive.” Such is the kind of open self-awareness that is tastefully deployed throughout Top Gun: Maverick. Despite being the latest in a l...
It takes a certain amount of expertise to build a narrative without telling the audience everything as soon as possible. In Montana Story, filmmakers Scott McG...
After personal trauma, a protagonist retreats to a secluded location for solace and inner reconciliation only to be further haunted. The set-up is familiar to ...
The incongruities abound at the start of Russell Owen's Shepherd to put us in a state of unease the moment we discover Eric Black's (Tom Hughes) wife Rachel (G...
If existence is indeed a rat’s nest of narratives playing out in mood-swinging incoherence across universes, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness may be...
Early into Martine Syms’ The African Desperate, MFA finalist Palace (Diamond Stingily) sits for her last exam in an upstate New York art school tucked deep in ...
It all started in January 2009. The movie? Taken. The movie star? Liam Neeson. That surprise hit created a new, palpable career path for the Irish thespian. Si...
The seasons have changed––spring is here, summer is on the way, and no film out right now better exudes the aura of love in the sunshine than Charline Bourgeoi...
Even for the twisty paranoid thriller sub-genre, there is a whole lot going on in Yann Gozlan's Black Box. Not boring yet not quite enveloping, the film never ...
