The main character of Nitzan Gilady’s Wedding Doll is a common character archetype, but one that’s rarely given the opportunity to be a lead, and even more rar...
There's a bothersome element to films about fictional musicians: the quality of the original songs, and the suspension of disbelief required – scratch that, dem...
If one of the ‘90s Adam Sandler movies had a weird May-December romance with a ‘00s Apatow production, the ungainly, misshapen, sterile hybrid that is The Boss ...
There are endless canards about how grief dissolves all human rationality, and no small number of real-life examples of apparently inexplicable behavior to back...
Much like with Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, the job of caretaker isn't an easy one in Mickey Keating's Darling. It should be: combat any prospective upkeep pr...
Nick Simon's The Girl in the Photographs seems to be a story reverse-engineered from its final image -- which, for a low-budget horror film, is an effective one...
Directed by Dylan Kidd, Get A Job stars Miles Teller as Will, the Millennial From Hell. Fresh out of college, our hero (?) expects everything to work for him li...
It’s easy to map out the Dennis Hopper trajectory: mid-50’s/ -60’s classical Hollywood bit player to '70s weirdo maverick to '90s Hollywood-blockbuster villain ...
Following in a wave of cerebral psychological horror films such as The Witch, It Follows, and The Babadook, Anita Rocha da Silveira’s debut Kill Me Please is th...
At its heart, Bi Gan's Kaili Blues is a meditation on the struggle between traditionalism and modernism. Through the story of one man’s journey through Chinese ...
