Mexican art cinema in the last two decades has been defined by a confrontational formalist rigor most widely seen in the films of Carlos Reygadas and Amat Esca...
Like Jia Zhangke’s Still Life, Giraffe is a fiction sketched around the margins of an infrastructure project, capturing impressions of life and landscape in a ...
When observing global cultural differences, some of the most telling points of distinction are seen in how different societies treat death. Beyond this, the on...
Since the release of Gravity in 2013, George Clooney has been in quite the acting slump, with Brad Bird’s severely underrated Tomorrowland as the lone bright s...
Alex Wheatle, the fourth entry in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, offers a modest take on the process of unlearning cultural attitudes and biases through ...
Northwest India’s Jammu and Kashmir region resides at the center of a longstanding geopolitical stalemate involving neighboring Pakistan. While those tensions ...
Give Max Fist (Joe Manganiello) a fifth of whiskey and he'll tell you about the alternate dimension that holds his home city of Chromium. He was a hero there: ...
At this point in his illustrious career, legendary playwright and occasional filmmaker John Patrick Shanley has nothing left to prove when it comes to artistic...
Anyone who's played organized sports is familiar with their clichés. Whether "fighting in the trenches" as though a game is akin to war or loyalty and love tra...
The success of Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida and Cold War has revealed, among arthouse audiences, a heretofore unimagined ravenous hunger for Eastern Bloc period dra...
