Destin Daniel Cretton’s adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle is more affected than affecting. It's strange, given how Walls’ life story has al...
Among the sea of headless torsos and shirtless bathroom selfies that populate the symmetrical grid of gay hook-up app Grindr, one is also likely to find users w...
For way too long now, the concept of #girlpower in comedies has been dominated by white female narratives in which women of color are an afterthought, either pl...
Are there rules on how to make a space epic? If there are, Luc Besson has certainly never heard them because in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, he ...
We see less and less of female actors as they age, the talents often forced into retirement by a lack of interesting parts and the overall sexism of the enterta...
What will future generations make of the way in which dating moved from the world of the corporeal to the digital realm in the 21st century? Will the process of...
Escapes isn’t the only Michael Almereyda film showing at BAMcinemaFest this year. In fact, it’s not even Almereyda’s only festival entry dealing with memory (th...
There is a scholarly theory that proposes films are always telling the story of their creation, singing an endless song about their own history. That seemed to ...
Is there a director more generous to his characters than Stephen Cone? Watching his films, one gets a sense that he doesn't use the medium simply to tell storie...
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.
