Naomi Kawase is a divisive name on the festival circuit, though you might be surprised that’s the case when actually watching her work. A mainstay at the Canne...
Anxiety
is high at the start of Jesse Noah Klein's Like
a House on Fire. We hear Dara (Sarah Sutherland) breathing heavily in the
bathroom of a train car befor...
It doesn’t take long for Memory House to dive right into politics. Within minutes, dairy factory worker Cristovam (Antonio Pitanga) finds himself sitting acros...
There is a moment of surreal wonder near the start of Concrete Cowboy, the TIFF premiere co-starring Idris Elba, that is never equaled again, a sequence of une...
It takes great maturity and confidence to make a film about the emergence of a young woman’s sexuality that also dares to ask complex, provocative questions wh...
Like every industry built under the watchful eye of a global patriarchy, the EDM scene is grossly tilted in favor of its male artists. And like many of those s...
If you find yourself needing to latch onto an obscure scientific theory to reinvigorate your energy level and live your life as more than a sleepwalking zombie...
An opening shot of Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery shows a man polishing the floor of a room walled with masterpieces. Recently writing about the moment f...
Try as they might, Max Landis' name is still there on the big screen when the opening titles to Roseanne Liang's Shadow in the Cloud begin to roll. They've scr...
It's starting to feel as though Gunner Boone's (Lonnie Chavis) life is fitting to become a series of upheavals with no end in sight. First, it was living with ...
