The new film Les Misérables may take only passing glances to Victor Hugo's text but it does boast a synopsis worthy of the sheer exuberance of that ti...
The last film legendary Japanese ultra-violence auteur Takashi Miike brought to Cannes' Directors' Fortnight (Yakuza Apocalypse, 2015) featured a character that...
Pedro Almodóvar, the punk chronicler of post-Francoist Spain, turns inwards for his 21st feature Pain and Glory, which arrives in competition at Cannes as a sum...
The zombies hobbling around the streets of the fictional, bucolic US city of Centerville have been awakened by global warming (specifically, from the ruthless f...
The school in the fictional village of Bacurau, located somewhere in the desert hinterlands of north-eastern Brazil, bears the name of one João Carpinteiro. If ...
Written and directed by Paul Shoulberg, the odd and occasionally profound dark comedy Ms. White Light features a unique profession at its core: the morality ind...
Set deep in the heart of Texas, Daniel Laabs’ Jules of Light and Dark explores the landscape of recovery as an unlikely friendship is formed between college stu...
If anything, Safe Spaces gets right what it’s like to be on the lowest wrung of the career ladder in academia. Justin Long stars as Josh, a creative writing and...
The Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa belongs to the many who fear that Jair Bolsonaro’s election as President of Brazil represents the beginning of the end for t...
Beyond Cinderella’s castle and Universal’s Islands of Adventure is the long-forgotten Redneck Orlando. I use the term because the family at the center of Red, W...
