Every story can be tackled from multiple angles depending on its narrative intent and lead character. It's therefore a conscious choice when selecting a focal ...
Mental illness isn't an easy topic to adapt for the big screen since doing so oftentimes forces a writer into making the choice between pain and hope. Not ever...
Recruiting
into the drug trade isn't difficult when impoverished youth from broken homes
are desperate to find purpose and escape. With school and family often...
Red, White and Blue, the third and weakest film from Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology series to premiere at this year’s NYFF, suffers because of its program...
In reimagining one’s history, you suspect your role in the proceedings. If you’re American, you put yourself in the heart of the battle, at the Constitutional ...
There's a scene in Mike Nichols' The Birdcage where Robin Williams' character is helping Nathan Lane's character be more "manly." He has him mimicking differen...
The dedication at the end of The Plastic House is short and sweet: “For Mum & Dad.” Like the rest of writer-director Allison Chhorn’s documentary, that ded...
Canadian novelist and playwright Robertson Davies once compared the continuity of a reader’s relationship to literature to that of architecture transforming in...
A well-modulated vision of the fight against encroaching malaise or mere trifle dressing itself up? Depends on the scene. But trifles have their place and aute...
Since its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the people behind Possessor have been desperate for audiences to know how violent the film is. ...
