Following up a successful work of lucid experimentation like Transit can be a tricky undertaking: does one lean back toward the basics or further up the ante? ...
It’s fair to say that one of the most common genres dominating the American independent film realm is the coming-of-age film. From present-set, relentlessly up...
Die-hard grunge fan (and drug dealer) Fred (Noah Parker) tells Catherine (Kelly Depeault) she can't play her Hole CD because Courtney Love killed Kurt Cobain. ...
In Malmkrog, a group of Russian aristocrats gather in a grand rural estate to wax philosophical during a long and luxurious dinner party. The film offers seemi...
Of all the monumental parts that tend to constitute the films of Jia Zhangke–the shifting socio-economic landscapes; the departing mountains; Zhao Tao–none has...
Draw the quick conclusion for why I had little desire to note-take during Emma. (stylized with a period; reasons probably unnecessary), but don't mistake this ...
Sometimes your dream isn't much of a dream at all. Maybe reality sets in after you're already well along the path taken in error. Perhaps the epiphany arrives ...
There's a scene in Michael Cristofer's The Night Clerk where lead character Bart Bromley (Tye Sheridan) misreads a situation and kisses a woman. His Asperger's...
The Call of the Wild plays like the kind of live-action movie Disney released in the '60s and '70s (Swiss Family Robinson, The Castaway Cowboy), then in the '8...
Is there anyone better at playing a cartoon villain than Jim Carrey? Maybe that’s a strange question considering his recent absence from the mainstream. After ...
