A film can be knocked off track by its main characters. Even a powerful message and an interesting exploration of an idea can’t overcome protagonists that you r...
Grow Up, Tony Phillips, the latest film from young writer/director Emily Hagins has a suffocating charm, something that comes as both a praise and a criticism. ...
Welcome to the latest episode of our official podcast, The Film Stage Show. This week, staff writer Danny King, associate editor Nick Newman, and I discuss ...
“When it comes to punk:, New York has the haircuts, London has the treasures, but Belfast has the reason, ” Terri Hooley remarks in Good Vibrations, the latest ...
A young boy on a bus—this is the indelible mark left by the first three episodes of Jane Campion and Gerard Lee's miniseries Top of the Lake and it sticks less ...
Whether true or not, hearing writer/director Vincent Grashaw wrote the first draft of his debut feature Coldwater right after graduating high school in 1999 was...
Medora is an especially powerful and perceptive film, telling a story all too familiar and perhaps all too real -- this is what the shrinking middle and lower c...
Listening to William Shakespeare on the silver screen in the guise of the modern age can be jarring, as we watch people with cell phones and electricity use the...
It's intriguing to note how many buzzed-about films depicting parents who don't know how or simply can't do the job were released on the festival circuit betwee...
With Snap, directors Youssef Delara and Victor Teran's key goal seems to be thrusting their audience into uncomfortable situations. Mental health is an extremel...