J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year starts out on just the right moody note for a searing, low-level crime drama; a young oil truck driver is waylaid by thugs wh...
At long last, revolution has finally come to Panem, the ruthless, tyrannical society at the heart of The Hunger Games franchise. As it turns out, that revolutio...
Directors Tony Mahony and Angus Sampson's The Mule is not at all what one might expect. The marketing materials draw it up as a B-movie romp, something the invo...
In the fall of 2012, attorneys for the City of New York served filmmaker Ken Burns and his production Florentine Films with a subpoena, seeking all available ou...
It’s perhaps possible that the whimsical nature of Tu dors Nicole would be rather unbearable in the form of an American studio comedy, the kind that fills the a...
Perhaps in another version of Takashi Miike’s latest film (and his first to be receiving a proper US distribution deal since 2011’s 3D extravaganza Hari-Kiri), ...
Climate change deniers say a lot of ridiculous things, but there’s one specific straw man argument they frequently fall back on that is so insulting in its ridi...
In an episode of my podcast, The Cinephiliacs, colleague Vadim Rizov noted a humorous but mostly essential statement when describing his disappointment with the...
While not technically made under the auspices of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, The Iron Ministry, directed by associated member J.P. Sniadecki, begins wi...
The heady, emotional lyrics of Nina Simone’s Blackbird keep rising up under the skin of Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Beyond the Lights, revealing the earnest, strivi...
