David Byrne is little without his sense of humor. Of course there’s the musical prowess whose longevity persists from then-outré new wave to today’s classic-ro...
76 Days, from directors Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, and an anonymous filmmaker, is a heartbreaking work of documentary vérité investigating the emerging COVID-19 outbr...
The
first event at which we see Joe Bell (Mark Wahlberg) speak his anti-bullying
message can't help but make you laugh. He's standing on-stage with a dishevele...
The
woodsmen are clearing out the forest to expand Kilkenny, Ireland's farmland
circa 1650 under orders of Lord Protector Cromwell (Simon McBurney)—an
Englishm...
Michel Franco has made a name for himself over the years with Daniel and Ana, After Lucia, Chronic, and April’s Daughter, all of which can be described as mise...
The premise behind Evan Morgan's The Kid Detective definitely hit upon my nostalgia as a big fan of the HBO Encyclopedia Brown series when I was a kid. You do ...
The career of François Ozon is delightfully absurd. For every gem––8 Women, Swimming Pool, Frantz––there is an (often entertaining) stumble. (Meet Ricky.) Yet ...
We're
often told growing up that every story has two sides so that we can learn how to
put ourselves into another's shoes and see whether actions we thought we...
There's
a big difference beyond adaptation and assimilation. One is additive. The other
is subtractive. One deals in compromise with two sides adjusting their
...
“How do you feel about the crime you committed? Remorse for the victim?” This question is posed early in Under the Open Sky to an aging figure named Mikami. He...
