Considering many films premiering at the Locarno Film Festival can take years to get a release here in the United States—should they get any at all—Locarno in ...
Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Robyn Bahr, and Bill Graham are joined by Brian Tallerico to discuss Mat...
The key to a good mystery isn't tricking the audience as much as it is entertaining them. The more you watch from this genre, the less slips past your percepti...
Directed by SXSW alum Kestrin Pantera (Mother’s Little Helpers), Pretty Problems is yet another indie picture about a floundering 30-something couple stuck in ...
It's not a new film, but Tokyo Vice can stand head and shoulders above most else of late, medium be damned, from one indisputable factor: Michael Mann, for who...
Rarely have I been able to chart my relationship with a film like Arnaud Desplechin's Deception. When we spoke in fall 2015 he told me Philip Roth's slim, dial...
As unhinged as its muse, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a curious bit of fan service and perhaps a welcome evolution in the career of Nicolas Cage,...
A general rule film students learn the first few weeks of their intro class is that a film teaches you how to watch it within the first five minutes. Well, mos...
At this moment, somewhere on planet Earth, a radio is thumping with the unmistakable opening of Chumbawamba’s utterly absurd 1997 smash, “Tubthumping.” Love it...
George Lucas’ American Graffiti may not have had the cross-cultural impact of Star Wars, but its structure––the endearingly aimless lives and loves of teenage ...