Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
When writer/director Rian Johnson’s witty Knives Out was released over Thanksgiving 2019, it was seen as a massive breath of fresh air. An original whodunnit with an all-star cast and [...]
Bones and All
An impulsive misfit finds true love with a mysterious drifter in the bizarrely romantic horror-road movie Bones and All. The film echoes Claire Denis' cannibal love story Trouble Every Day [...]
The Fabelmans
An emotionally complex, sentimental journey through the joyful and equally tormented memories of iconic filmmaker Steven Spielberg's artistic origins and formative years, Spielberg's latest film, The Fabelmans, is his own [...]
The Menu
Director Mark Mylod has spend over two decades directing some of the biggest, most acclaimed and respected pieces of television. recently, HBO’s Succession and Game of Thrones, but also Entourage and [...]
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Walt Disney. A Burl Ives TV musical. Italian animator Giuliano Cenci. Steve Barron, with 90’s heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Thomas. A Kevin S. Tenney slasher film. Steven Spielberg, somewhat. Roberto Benigni. [...]
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
The history of Black Cinema and Black people in cinema in the United States has been the focus of articles, books, and has been touched on in other films (memorably [...]
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
In an era where a majority of films attempt to play it safe in order to turn a profit, two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Bardo, False Chronicle of a [...]
Aftersun
Highly sensory filmmaking and a heartfelt performance by Paul Mescal pull off an unusual balance of wooziness and sincerity in Aftersun, a hypnotic and elliptical mood piece centered on a [...]
Decision to Leave
An engrossing, whodunit murder mystery about desire, murder, and forbidden love, Decision to Leave is a complicated and intricate mind-game of a movie. The film directed with such vigorous craftsmanship [...]
Stars at Noon
Claire Denis's sensual and tense adaptation of the late Denis Johnson 1986 novel, Stars at Noon, is a stylish, sophisticated, genre-bending reworking of the espionage geopolitical thriller. On the surface, [...]