To quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail, for documentarian Joshua Bonnetta, the Scottish Outer Hebrides is something of a “very silly place.” This is not to d...
There are so many critical and theoretical entry points for discussing a film so dense as Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s Labyrinth of Cinema that it’s hard to know where ...
The year is 1986, the setting is New York City, and the AIDS epidemic is running rampant. Our hero David (Samuel H. Levine) is a teenager living in Brighton Be...
Perhaps the biggest cultural difference between the U.K. and U.S. is the way success is viewed. While America tends to celebrate those who make it, British cul...
For fledgling animation studios, the first impression is always the most important. Pixar managed to cement their brand of heartfelt, pop culture-inflected sto...
Where does one even begin with Halloween Kills? Is it paramount to speak of its content, which achieves the impossible of being so stretched out that it couldn...
When George Clooney jumped to directing he claimed to be motivated by the kinds of movies Hollywood doesn’t make anymore—screwball comedies, sober political th...
For a movie about a fated love (Leslie Odom Jr.'s Nick and Cynthia Erivo's Janine) being undermined by a jealous ex (Orlando Bloom's Tommy), I didn't expect to...
Chinese cinema is at a weird place. On the one hand, three of 2021's top five worldwide grossers are, as of writing, Chinese, so it’s doing more than okay on t...
All About My Sisters, the nearly three-hour documentary debut from Wang Qiong, could be called All About My Sister. More specifically her sister Jin, who was a...
