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...

Director Kriv Stenders left the audience seated for his latest film Kill Me Three Times with the words, "I hope you have as much fun watching as we had making i...

It’s been a while since the U.S. has produced a good sex comedy for and about adults. The last film exploring this territory, Sex Tape, is one I wish I had forg...

Near the very beginning of Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure, we come to understand the impetus for a family’s vacation when the wife, Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli), ex...