Paul Schrader has been open about the original intentions for his most famous work, the screenplay to Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Writing it in the vein of R...
The Room, a film produced, directed, written, and led by “entrepreneur” Tommy Wiseau, was supposed to be his grand artistic statement. What turned out instead w...
I can't really be held accountable for believing that the combined efforts of legendary German auteur Wim Wenders, Academy Award-winner Alicia Vikander, and the...
It was always funny to think of Ted Kennedy as "the other Kennedy." How could you not? Despite his long tenure as Massachusetts Senator, he wasn't "anointed" li...
The world doesn't need another film about an irredeemable artist who forsook his wife and child for his art only to begrudgingly (and fearfully through too many...
It starts with a London-based rabbi speaking from his heart about the complexities of life. He stammers through — obviously ailing — until collapse. Suddenly we...
Turkish-French filmmaker Deniz Gamze Ergüven's 2015 feature Mustang was such a captivating, empathetic debut that many were confident she wouldn't be inflicted ...
S. Craig Zahler is the kind of genre filmmaker who’s making films unlike anyone else in his field today. His 2015 debut Bone Tomahawk pulled together an impress...
Trauma, or more specifically the aftermath of trauma, has always been a rich topic to explore in cinema, and it’s easy to see why. Trauma itself may be experien...
Armando Iannucci doesn’t make movies and TV about politics. He certainly features politicians and their endless petty squabbling and power struggles, but that’s...
