Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars and filmmakers and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the...
Puerto Rico is the oldest colony in the world. Think about that. The United States retains the island as an "unincorporated possession" without any national re...
Ava DuVernay's release imprint, Array, has become a distributor to watch over recent years, curating acquisitions that are not only under-the-radar but feel re...
The last couple Safdie brothers movies are acclaimed on a panoply of fronts but it's hard to imagine them functioning like so sans Oneohtrix Point Never, the p...
Molecular shapes collide into one another, at which point they may as well be falling from the heavens. As scientists examine their glassy, often contradictory...
To skin a quote from The Social Network, it’s probably better to be accused of necrophilia these days than to be accused of whaling. Less so in the world of Th...
"To be watching Gunda isn’t just to witness glimpses of farm life kept at an arm’s length, but to experience something that’s entirely sui generis, an encounte...
New York City isn’t particularly renowned for its beauty. Wait, wait—don’t punch me. I love New York. I moved here because I grew up on Annie Hall, Breakfast a...
One of the more bizarre news stories of the last few years was the public assassination of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's half-brother by two mysterious young wo...
The thing about artists is that their life's work is objective. It remains once they're gone. Few other career paths can claim that since money doesn't count. ...