Sometimes it can be a little sad to watch a director blatantly make a bid for mainstream American acceptance (or rather future Marvel gig), and in the case of ...
Most films ask nothing of you. You simply press play and watch the story unfold, gleaning context as the filmmaker colors in their narrative. But the occasiona...
An "us versus them" mentality inherently possesses the drama many documentarians seek to bottle when telling their stories. They mine their topic for the messa...
Keeping things in the family isn't always easy—just ask the Gallagher Brothers. Blood doesn't mean anything once fame and fortune enter the fray because outsid...
In his previous film Martin Eden, and now with Scarlet, Pietro Marcello has found a novel way to depict artistic striving, closely tying it with the concept of...
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...
