There's a moment towards the end of Stanley Nelson and Traci Curry's documentary Attica where a white state trooper is seen putting his fist in the air while s...
“It’s war. You’re going to see the wounds of war.”
This grave warning comes from a gun-safety-training officer who, with a team of others, is in the busines...
Biographical pictures and historical dramas can often go the way of cinematic hagiography, particularly when the subjects are involved in the project's develop...
Scott Cooper is comfortable in the mud. The American director routinely finds himself in the confines of the lowdown and dirty, in gritty landscapes with worki...
I'm not entirely sure what the message is at the center of Lindsay Gossling's 13 Minutes. In fact, I'm pretty sure there isn't one. A line of text runs before ...
To quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail, for documentarian Joshua Bonnetta, the Scottish Outer Hebrides is something of a “very silly place.” This is not to d...
There are so many critical and theoretical entry points for discussing a film so dense as Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s Labyrinth of Cinema that it’s hard to know where ...
The year is 1986, the setting is New York City, and the AIDS epidemic is running rampant. Our hero David (Samuel H. Levine) is a teenager living in Brighton Be...
Perhaps the biggest cultural difference between the U.K. and U.S. is the way success is viewed. While America tends to celebrate those who make it, British cul...
For fledgling animation studios, the first impression is always the most important. Pixar managed to cement their brand of heartfelt, pop culture-inflected sto...
