“Mulan! Take control of yourself!” These shouts greet young Mulan as she runs and leaps across her village, attempting to catch a wayward chicken. Set during t...
And like that, the Venice Film Festival, and maybe auteur cinema itself, is back. Recovering from a global pandemic that has altered life as we know it, and wi...
A small, harmless frog peacefully existing by the water is the first image presented in Feels Good Man. What follows from that serene moment––a nod to the sour...
As
a subversive poem (according to the Chinese Nationalist Party that ruled Taiwan
under martial law during the period known as the White Terror from 1947 unti...
When his brain was firing on all comedic cylinders—on stage performing standup or improvising in front of the camera—Robin Williams described an experience aki...
Every single one of us knows the terror of the unknown. Maybe it's as universal as our collective uncertainty about the future or as specific as your inability...
The Mole Agent has quite the premise, and it seems intent to follow it at first. Outside of Santiago, Chile in the district of El Monte, a family suspects that...
Like
the warring Japanese dojos depicted throughout the Karate Kid franchise, a growing disconnect exists between those who
wish to learn a fighting style as a...
We
all like to think we have control—kings of our proverbial castles. It's all a
ruse, though. We're actually slaves to a system that seems more and more likel...
The
darkened screen is almost pitch black before we can begin to discern shapes in
the distance. First it's wooden stakes in the ground at what looks to be a
t...
