A delightful meditation on childhood in the summer of 1969 set literally in the shadows of NASA’s central operations in Houston, Richard Linklater’s contemplat...
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 ...
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 ...
Paz Encina’s EAMI opens with a scene that feels yanked from a dream, then hangs in this otherworldly realm for the 83 minutes that follow. The scene is a stati...
In the heyday of big-screen entertainment Thailand was home to some 700 standalone single-screen theaters. By 2019 only one of them survived in Bangkok. It was...
It took seven years before any filmmaker dared touch the Utøya massacre; then in 2018, all of a sudden, we had two too many. It probably didn't help that the f...
Our introductions to writer/director Ashley McKenzie's leads in Queens of the Qing Dynasty are not to be forgotten. Whether Star's (Sarah Walker) open-mouthed ...
