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 [...]
Cookie Queens
Cookie Queen is a charming and intimate look at four girls selling cookies for the Girl Scouts of America. They range in age from five to twelve, and come from [...]
I Want Your Sex
Legendary indie auteur Gregg Araki’s latest erotic dark comedy, I Want Your Sex, may lack the dreamlike surrealism of his earlier work, but it taps directly into the central obsession [...]
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home was a pivotal moment for 21st century cinematic nostalgia whose incorporation of past Spider-Men Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield caused audiences around the world to [...]
The Odyssey – Barry Shanley’s Take
Warning: In order to adequately compare this adaptation to the source material, I will be discussing spoilers from both the text and the film. A story like Homer’s The Odyssey - and [...]
Motor City
Director Potsy Ponciroli made a name for himself in the indie world with his word-of-mouth hit Old Henry in late 2021. His follow-up, 2024's Greedy People failed to capitalize off [...]
Her Private Hell
With Her Private Hell, Danish visionary director Nicolas Winding Refn continues the slow-burn, neon-bathed, abstract genre filmmaking he began shaping with 2013's polarizing Only God Forgives. Marking his long-awaited return [...]
The Odyssey–Robert Butler’s Take
Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek story, The Odyssey, is nothing short of a cinematic miracle. This is not a sterile, classicized myth preserved in amber; it is a [...]