In the early minutes of Chinese director Yang Chao’s sophomore feature, a fish is thrown into a bowl of water somewhere along an anonymous riverbank, darkened w...
With only a solitary passing mention of The Avengers, Doctor Strange is as stand-alone an adventure as we will get from Marvel -- prior to a mid-credits sequenc...
"I wanted to claw into the darkest recesses of your brain and poke at things that you don’t want to think about," director Nicolas Pesce told us when it com...
Not be confused with Anton Corbijn's James Dean biopic last year -- or Ted Demme's 1999 comedy, for that matter -- Life is the title of one of Sony's bigges...
Welcome, one and all, to the newest episode of The Film Stage Roundtable, a spin-off podcast from the madmen who bring you The Film Stage Show. On this show...
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repe...
The Film Foundation's efforts to restore Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter are, to my eyes, exemplary. While a new coat of paint isn't necessarily ...
Another week, another new James Franco film. Following up Goat and King Cobra, his next project is Burn Country (formerly titled The Fixer), a winner a this...