While at Fantastic Fest, it’s not often you find feel-good, heart-warming yarns amid the plethora of films about yakuza, murderers, zombies or other genre staples. But The True Adventures of Wolfboy is as unexpected as it is honest....
We never meet the narrator (Nick Offerman) of Bob Byington's film Frances Ferguson. This isn't necessarily a bad thing or uncommon, but I couldn't shake the ide...
It's an unorthodox but sweetly unsurprising premise: the cancer-stricken Emma (Petey J. Gibson) demands her wife Josie (Nika Ezell Pappas) meet someone new so s...
There's a joke told about a third of the way through Mac Cappuccino's film Malaisia. It's bad. Jay Schmidt is the one laying out the excessive amount of exposit...
There was a time when it seemed music might have the power to change the world—or at the very least, move the needle. The knee-jerk reaction to such a statement...
Francis Ford Coppola had already cemented his Hollywood legacy after a string of critical and commercial successes in the 1970s, but discussion of his filmograp...
For every viewer there are forms of storytelling, visual expression that are more familiar than others. The references, codes, cinematic language of foreign fil...
It’s hard to think of anything that’s as inherently ridiculous and quite literally vital as condoms. Nothing more than a little piece of latex, but what moral, ...
Having too many ideas for your film can be a curse. It’s understandably tempting, especially for first-time filmmakers, to show people all you’ve got in one go....
