Miguel Gomes’ Our Beloved Month of August and its ecstatically received follow-up, Tabu, showcased the director’s love of storytelling as a means of contemplati...
Justin Kurzel’s phenomenal debut, Snowtown, portrayed the most notorious serial killings in Australian history, the Snowtown Murders. Though nigh traumatizing i...
Ever since Disney and Pixar announced that they'd begun working on Inside Out, it was clear that the concept had a wealth of of potential. This, despite the stu...
When little Carol Ann Freeling ominously intoned ‘They’re Here!’ in 1982′s Poltergeist, she wasn’t just announcing the fact that ghosts had discovered suburbia,...
The Cannes Film Festival represents the pantheon of arthouse cinema, so it does raise eyebrows when a wuxia movie is included in its official selection. After a...
Though vastly more moderate than its predecessor, the ultra-violent A Touch of Sin, Jia Zhangke’s Mountains May Depart continues the director’s move away from t...
There has yet to be a great documentary about education reform. A politicized issue if there was ever one, Greg Whitely, director of Mitt and New York Doll trie...
Amongst the national conversation we’re having about race is a topic a topic often glossed over amongst the conservative talking point of “accountability." Yes,...
“I get things are bad. But what are we doing to fix it?”
Early on in Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland we are treated to a vision of the future that strives for unque...
Gaspar Noé, author of the notorious Irreversible and Enter the Void, has been generating a lot of hype around his fourth feature Love, which at Cannes was large...
