What does it mean to confront the colonial sins of the past and truly make reparations for the erasure of cultures? Lin Alluna’s Twice Colonized directly explo...
We’re less than a quarter into 2023 and independent horror appears to be having a moment. Technically it started several months ago when Kyle Edward Ball’s “li...
Christopher Smith’s films have often been obsessed, in one way or another, with time. From the recursive looping of his breakout Triangle to the branching narr...
The only exterior shot Playland shows of the iconic Boston gay dive that lends the film its name is a black-and-white photograph slotted seconds before the end...
If 2022 was the year of self-reflexive explorations of harnessing cinematic tools to varying means––the likes of Steven Spielberg, James Gray, Alejandro Gonzál...
The trick to Sharper––a new con picture from director Benjamin Caron––is that it's deceivingly simple. Featuring multiple lead characters, many points of view,...
“I use technology in order to hate it properly," pioneering video artist and self-identified cultural terrorist Nam June Paik says while explaining his playful...
Maryam Keshavarz's semi-autobiographical feature The Persian Version is an energetic family comedy chronicling three generations of Iranian women in the US. An...
Repeating the blissfully perfect, pure ode to pleasure that is Magic Mike XXL would be a fool’s errand, so nearly a decade later––with Steven Soderbergh back i...
Filmmaker Maite Alberdi seems keen to remind us non-fiction cinema can belong to different genres rather than reinforce some notion that they are a genre unto ...
