Film Reviews & Insights
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 [...]
The Odyssey
After finally winning his Oscar for Best Director and Best Picture for his near-billion-dollar grossing Oppenheimer, filmmaking titan Christopher Nolan returns with his most ambitious endeavour yet. Nolan, who has [...]
Rose of Nevada
Some films are wholly original. Rose of Nevada seems to want to believe it is original but it is not, and that is fine. Instead, it is a pastiche of [...]
Horsegirls
Horsegirls is the debut film from Lauren Meyering starring Lillian Carrier as Margarita, a twenty-two year old grown and independent (mostly) autistic woman. She lives with her mother Sandy, played [...]