For Clay, the man at the center of The Civil Dead, there isnāt much happening in life. Portrayed by director and co-writer Clay Tatum, heās an unemployed LA ph...
The mechanics and politics of the filmed sex scene are put under a microscope in Kristy Guevara-Flanaganās documentary Body Parts. A useful primer for thinking...
Though adapting Paul G. Tremblayās The Cabin at the End of the World, M. Night Shyamalanās newest film takes a different approach. Knock at the Cabin is an exe...
The history of film is filled with fascinating symmetries, with Edisonās early kinescopes like Fred Ottās Sneeze and The Kiss resembling the kinds of stories f...
Jamojaya begins with a bang. In an interview, up-and-coming rapper James (Brian āRich Brianā Imanuel) fires his father (Yayu A.W. Unru) as his manager. The sto...
Early into Raine Allen-Millerās Rye Lane, the London-set romantic comedy shows a sense of newness. Using fisheye lenses, zooming close-ups, and integrated flas...
It's of course common to overlook the Slamdance Film Festival, which boldly (nobly?) runs concurrent with a better-known, phonetically similar exhibition, but ...
Reaching a wider audience with 2020's The Killing of Two Lovers, writer-director Robert Machoian and star Clayne Crawford are back with their follow-up, The In...
If a film could immortalize our screen-infested age, what would it look like? Restlessly playful and joyfully cacophonous, YuHan Tengās Gagaland offers an eloq...
A frank celebration of a pre-Giuliani New York, Kristen Lovell and Zachary Drucker's The Stroll explores a unique period from the inside. Lovellāāan actress, a...