Throughout his career, director Emanuele Crialese has focused on telling stories about migration, both literal (his gorgeous Nuovomondo chronicles an Italian f...
The Aztec story of creation is one of birth through destruction; of life existing because death occurred. According to their myths, in the beginning, the god Ō...
In Return to Seoul, director Davy Chou tells a moving story of fractured identity amidst a constantly changing world. It's through the eyes of Freddie (Park Ji...
Filmmaker Maite Alberdi seems keen to remind us non-fiction cinema can belong to different genres rather than reinforce some notion that they are a genre unto ...
Not since Madonna got on her knees in the “Like a Prayer” video in 1989 has anyone been as horny for a saint as the heroine of Mamacruz, a housewife in her 70s...
There must have been something in the air at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where two of the top prizes went to Belgian films about the impossible standards se...
From its hilarious use of social media montages to the oversized white Telfar bag that seems to almost swallow one of its characters whole, Sebastián Silva’s R...
Although it takes less than half an hour to drive from Ciudad Juárez to El Paso, the cities might as well be located on different planets. Mexico's Ciudad Juár...
Christopher Murray's Sorcery asks timeless questions about the meaning of justice in a world where the oppressed are tried in courts set up by their oppressors...
In films like Volver, Parallel Mothers, Everybody Knows, and now L’immensità, Penélope Cruz has cornered the market on playing mother figures that are both lar...
Jose Solís has been writing about film since he was 10 and realized his thoughts on movies were taking over his journal. He hasn't stopped writing since.
