While much attention has currently (and rightfully) been drawn toward Bong Joon Ho’s Okja within the realm of human-and-beast cinema, Kirsten Tan’s Pop Aye is a...
Whether or not he is, in fact, the first person who thought to create rhythm between non-diegetic music cues and diegetic gunshots, the gesture is but a plethor...
War for the Planet of the Apes is the most serious film ever made, or at least comes across that way with every decision made by director and co-writer Matt Ree...
Escapes isn’t the only Michael Almereyda film showing at BAMcinemaFest this year. In fact, it’s not even Almereyda’s only festival entry dealing with memory (th...
Discussing the ways in which fiction films shift between their linear, wholly narrative impulses and something approaching ethnography is among the most illumin...
There is a scholarly theory that proposes films are always telling the story of their creation, singing an endless song about their own history. That seemed to ...
I mean, you know what you’re getting by now, right?
Did you see any of the other Transformers movies? They are all unified in sensibility of craft, story, an...
Is there a director more generous to his characters than Stephen Cone? Watching his films, one gets a sense that he doesn't use the medium simply to tell storie...
I know I'm in the critical minority when admitting my enjoyment of the Cars franchise, but I honestly do. It's not even that I am a "car guy" either—I've never ...
Much of what tantalizes about the seemingly straightforward drama Harmonium is what makes it so difficult to describe. It is nominally a domestic drama, centeri...
