Let’s hear it again for Dame Maggie Smith. Although she’s captured audience attention playing all manner of fussy upper-crust elitists, including Downton Abbey’...
Rarely do films highlight the nuances of a guarded society so efficiently that it, in turn, gives one a wholly new perspective on the culture of a country. Such...
The history of Hollywood’s distortion of and digression from the facts of supposed ‘true stories’ is long and infamous. Any movie that claims to be “based on a ...
A particular sub-set of travel horror exists to scare people away from real-life attractions with no regard for whether any threat actually exists. Films such a...
A suitcase clanks back and forth over the barren streets of Busan, spilling its contents as its owner desperately tries to stuff them back inside. This chaotic ...
Anti-hero is too light a word for the lead of The World of Kanako. A hard-drinking, tortured, virulent ex-cop thrown into an underworld of sociopathy and system...
After (mostly) constricting themselves to the confines of a single building in Birdman, director Alejandro González Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezk...
Michael Dougherty’s Krampus — based around the German humanoid folklore figure who punishes naughty children — wants to be the White Elephant of the holiday mov...
The English language makes very few appearances in Bertrand Bonello’s On War, and it's to the film's credit that their possible connections and distribution fee...
Spike Lee's made his career by tackling, head-on, important socio-political issues revolving around race, inequality, and prejudice. With his latest entry, Chi-...
