The Load is about a man and a van. We’re in Yugoslavia in 1999, where the rumble of NATO bombers can be heard in the distance. The man’s name is Vlada (Leon Luv...
One need not take a class on the cinema of Todd Solondz to suspect that there may not be a great deal of joyfulness in a film called Joy (unless, of course, som...
One of the biggest challenges when making a film about a fictitious artist must be coming up with art that doesn’t make audience members question the admiration...
Bodies twirl to maddening EDM tunes and wobble home at the break of dawn; nostrils are pierced, snort coke and puff smoke; mouths chew, bite, and meet in voraci...
I had never heard of Donald Crowhurst before seeing James Marsh's film The Mercy. This is unsurprising since the British Sunday Times' Golden Globe Race of whic...
In the spring of 2002, I went on a school trip from Honduras to Nicaragua. My classmates and I, all middle class 16- and 17-year-olds, spent a decadent weekend ...
I knew things weren't going to go as hoped when the lack of a short film before Ralph Breaks the Internet brought a filmed introduction by three of its middle-a...
There's no better way to recognize what a filmmaker brings to the table than a sequel without him/her. This isn't to say Ryan Coogler wasn't involved in the mak...
Expanding on one of the stories I first encountered on the NPR StoryCore podcast, The Interpreters is an alarming call to action exploring the human cost of war...
A loving tribute through the eyes of Jakob Dylan and friends, Echo in the Canyon offers a behind the scenes approach to recapturing the magic of the mid-60s era...
