I Promise You Anarchy, by writer-director Julio Hernández Cordón, titillates equally with its queer sensuality and noirish crime, neither of which is entirely t...
From Sophie's Choice to My Sister’s Keeper, child loss has been the subject of everything from prestige Oscar pictures to YA drivel. It’s an understandable foc...
What do you get when you combine uninventive found footage, a location chosen specifically for its cheap production costs, and CGI the likes of which has not be...
Most writing on Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci's April and the Extraordinary World speaks as though they've adapted one of revered Frenchman Jacques Tardi...
Who isn't self-centered? If you find someone, please let me know, because I don't think that person exists. Even when we are at our most compassionate, empathet...
There’s one point late in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 that stands out -- nay, is almost stunning -- for actually being underplayed. Ian (John Corbett), in the mi...
I played jazz trumpet growing up in Oklahoma, so Chet Baker’s somber swing always brought our ensemble back to earth when Dizzy Gillespie’s flying fingers sent ...
Once the dust from its cataclysmic finale had settled -- both on the screen and in the wider pop-culture conversation that followed -- everyone seemed to be won...
Nakom is the first movie produced in Ghana's Kusaal language, made by directorial duo T.W. Pittman and Kelly Daniela Norris after the former’s Peace Corps stint...
After a festival tour back in 2006 and a now-out-of-print DVD release, Asghar Farhadi’s Fireworks Wednesday has been theatrically re-released by the newly estab...
