Although his films are rarely filled with the obvious cinematic references that color the works of Tarantino, Matias Piñeiro’s films are a different type of cin...
Who knew cows could be a symbol of freedom, resistance, self-sufficiency, and identity? On the surface it's absurd and yet they became Palestinian town Beit Sah...
It might be hard to conceive of how a tragic story like Madame Bovary could be turned into a farcical and winning comedy, and yet here we stand. With remarkable...
There are some huge ebbs and flows in Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler. At times I loved it, others I felt bad for laughing, and some instances made me wonder what exa...
There's a great reference in Welcome to Me about Cindy Sherman that many may gloss over. Director Shira Piven and screenwriter Eliot Laurence made mention to Ne...
After enjoying Ruba Nadda's Inescapable and hearing praise for Cairo Time I was intrigued by her latest effort, October Gale. For whatever reason Nadda doesn't ...
I kept trying to think about what films Zhang Yimou's Coming Home reminded me of while watching. Obvious ones came to mind like Away From Her and Amour where Go...
Every movie should have a score by Ludovico Einaudi and it's comforting to see Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano agree. After using his haunting music on the sk...
We are the pale blue dot of Earth? No. We're the intermittently blinking light on the end of an out-of-touch parent's device for transparently spying on the ele...
Relationships are the kind of experience dependent on context. Environment and circumstance dictate the way people deal with one another and respond to one anot...
