Film Reviews & Insights
Coyote vs. Acme
It was legendary film producer Edward R. Pressman who said that every film is a miracle. A combination of sheer determination, luck and talent, filmmaking is a miraculous feat even [...]
The Dog Stars
Ridley Scott remains astonishingly prolific, churning out scale-driven features with a relentless momentum that puts directors half his age to shame. His latest entry, The Dog Stars, marks another foray [...]
Insidious: Out of the Further
James Wan's original Insidious film was a major sleeper hit when it was released in the spring of 2011, grossing over $100 million worldwide on a $1 million budget. Wan's [...]
Sheep in the Box
Hirokazu Kore-Eda is one of Japan’s great film makers, but with Sheep in a Box, he has made a rare misstep. This is not a bad film, but it is a [...]
Tony
Tony is based on a single summer in the life of author and chef Anthony Bourdain. Set in Provincetown, Massachusetts during the mid 1970s, Dominic Sessa plays the title character as [...]
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a brilliant, deeply personal, and metatextual tribute to '80s slasher cinema. Like I Saw the TV Glow, Schoenbrun uses dark [...]
The Rivals of Amziah King
The Rivals of Amziah King is a film that almost defies easy categorization, mixing as it does elements of crime drama, westerns, musicals, horror, thriller, romance and slow cinema character [...]
One Night Only
Having been a script on Hollywood’s Black List, a list of unproduced but highly esteemed spec scripts floating around the industry, One Night Only is one of the few to have actually [...]
The Samurai and the Prisoner
The Samurai and The Prisoner, based on the book by Honobu Yonezawa, is the latest film from Kiyoshi Kurosawa and it is, in every real sense, a masterpiece. Based on the [...]
The End of Oak Street
Filmmaker and Detroit native David Robert Mitchell first made a name for himself with his debut feature, the comedic coming-of-age drama The Myth of the American Sleepover back in 2010, [...]
Late Fame
Kent Jones has made one of the most organic transitions in contemporary American cinema. Moving from esteemed film critic and scholar to co-writing Martin Scorsese's My Voyage to Italy film [...]