A shot late in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless encapsulates both the film’s overarching message and its author’s bludgeoning directorial approach. One of the prot...
Alfred Hitchcock might have been stating the obvious when he said, "If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfect ide...
Pasolini included an “essential bibliography” in the opening credits of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, proffering five philosophical titles by the likes of Rol...
The numerous financial forces that conspired to put Alien: Covenant on thousands and thousands of screens the world over have ensured that their investment will...
Blame, written, directed, edited, and starring 22-year-old Quinn Shephard, is an impressive debut feature that's confident and assured, yet feels less like a fe...
In Amber Tamblyn’s impressive debut feature Paint It Black, a suicide sets up a tug of war between two unlikely interconnected foes: Josie (Alia Shawkat), a stu...
Long before Dominic Toretto and his crew became globe-trotting superheroes, they might have been the neighbors of the Alvarez family, known as “low-riders” who ...
Can a film about twenty-eight year olds be considered a coming-of-age story? I guess it can when the two men in question were teenage professional gamers becaus...
A dim-witted offering released in time for Mother’s Day, Snatched -- directed by Jonathan Levine from a script by Katie Dippold -- is a low-energy action comedy...
The 1960s were a hotbed of activism by necessity. You had civil rights battles for racial and gender equality, protests standing in opposition of new wars comin...
