In his heyday, Walter Hill made films of a thirty-year-or-so dissonance, everything he made in the '80s owing itself to the '50s, be it Robert Aldrich-Burt Lanc...
Jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan was known for creatively challenging the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis on stage with his style and intensity, a youthful pe...
Small-time private detective Tommy Akhtar (Riz Ahmed) has all the swagger of a hard-boiled snoop: leather jacket on his shoulders and cigarette in his mouth, le...
The romantic comedy formula is one that can't help but become redundant in premise. How many different scenarios are there for two people to converge? Even so, ...
Garth Davis' directorial debut Lion is based on a true story. The film makes sure to tell us that at the very beginning of the movie -- just to remind us that w...
Considering how fashionable a "spiritual sequel" is in Hollywood these days, it's a pity that those behind Katie Says Goodbye can't legally flaunt it as one of ...
After making an impression in films from Paul Thomas Anderson, David Lowery, and Spike Lee, thanks to his new exposure as television's most intelligent anti-soc...
Remakes repackaging foreign films for American audiences are justifiable if done correctly. I’d hope our movie-going public would willingly read subtitles and e...
Kiyoshi Kurosawa has ways of making it look easy, even unimpressive. To my knowledge, he has never made a film that’s less than a pleasure to simply observe, ri...
After a 17-year hiatus from directing feature length films, Alison Maclean returns to the screen with The Rehearsal, an adaptation of Eleanor Catton's acclaimed...
