The contemporary royal family are more compelling as media figures than anything with much consequence to how life is lived in Britain today. They make great f...
Can someone get Edgar Wright a DJ residency? Or a prime-time (or drive-time) radio slot. Few working directors are so passionate and eager to play the tunes, t...
David Cronenberg, who certainly knows a thing about difficult literary adaptations, may have said it best: "In order to be faithful to the book, you need to be...
Whatever new could be said about Paul Schrader as an artist—curving around the extra-textual value in Kickstarter campaigns, Facebook posts, and tragic losses ...
In a film of carefully appointed details, let’s isolate one. Phil Burbank (a fierce Benedict Cumberbatch) is, among many things, a man of reputation. The Monta...
T. S. Eliot gave it a cryptic name in The Waste Land: "The Burial of the Dead." Pedro Almodóvar has instructed his glamorous cast in Parallel Mothers to carry ...
Amidst the swarm of awards-season unveilings and studio premieres one shouldn't lose sight of the Venice Film Festival's Biennale College Cinema, a program sup...
As usual, Telluride Film Festival has unveiled their 2021 lineup just moments before the event gets underway. Taking place from Thursday, September 2 through M...
If one digs deeper than the Dunes and Spencers of the Venice International Film Festival lineup, a number of promising gems await. One that certainly has our e...
It's hard to believe it's been over a decade since the last feature film from Jane Campion. While she was busy in the interim crafting two seasons of Top of th...
