Part Todd Solondz, John Waters, Nicole Holofcener, and Bridesmaids, the bitter and cynical Preggoland is a unique comedy. Despite occasionally edging towards ru...
The second collaboration between the artist collective known as The Yes Men and documentarian Laura Nix takes a more personal look behind the collective. The cu...
The trend towards the narrative of the victim in cinema has hit critical mass lately, with all manner of films delving into stories of people who are abused and...
August Strindberg’s 1888 play Miss Julie traces the transference of indignity between two souls who share little more than a pervasive sense of unbelonging. Var...
Directed by Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar) with the sense of intimacy required for the material, The Good Lie is a fine film on its own. Its harrowing fir...
While it could have easily become a simple behind the scenes feature for an album of three generations of Memphis soul musicians coming together to recut some h...
Naomi Kawase’s Still the Water begins in a beguiling, abstract way that sets the tone for the rest of her film in more ways than one. First, a beautifully lit a...
We open on a scene that seems ordinary enough. A school teacher (Jose Sacristan) is giving a lecture on the unerring and immutable importance and longevity of t...
Though a hip-hopera (the last film to earn that label possibly being R. Kelly’s everlasting epic, Trapped in the Closet), Sion Sono’s Tokyo Tribe puts itself in...
In 2012, Taiwanese documentary filmmaker Chang Jung-chi made his narrative feature debut with Touch of Light. The first time effort paid off, as the drama, whic...
