Film Reviews & Insights
The Taste of Things
A passionately crafted and pointed look at cooking, cuisine, love, and romance are the aspects that celebrate the human spirit. The Taste of Things delivers a highly satisfying story concerning [...]
Perfect Days
A tender, moving, and accessible character study, iconic German filmmaker Wim Wenders latest film, Perfect Days, spotlights internal longing in modern-day Japan and the film is about a bathroom custodian [...]
The Promised Land
The sweeping historical epic is a longtime favorite genre for filmmakers. Even now, outside of the genre’s heyday, there are still quite a few that pop up. Recent examples include Napoleon, The [...]
Argylle
Producer-turned-director Matthew Vaughn has been behind some of the more influential Hollywood projects over the past couple of decades. Starting out as a producer on Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and [...]
Orion and the Dark
What do Werner Herzog, Tame Impala, and Dreamworks have in common? Netflix's newest animated feature film, Orion and the Dark, adapted from the book of the same name by Emma [...]
How to Have Sex
An emotionally raw, energetic, fractured and finally poignant coming-of-age drama about a trio of young women who go on a summer trip together to a beach resort on the Greek [...]
The Peasants
Continuing the much-valued painted animation technique that was used previously with Loving Vincent (2017), married directors DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman deliver a despairing, sometimes grueling, and tiring adaptation of [...]
Pictures of Ghosts
Bacurau writer/director Kleber Mendonça Filho's personal and in-depth Pictures of Ghosts explores the history of his home town of Recife, while examining the deep cultural impact of Brazilian movie palaces. [...]
Sometimes I Think About Dying
A superb sophomore feature by director Rachel Lambert that happens to be co-produced by its leading co-star Daisy Ridley, Sometimes I Think About Dying brings a fresh perspective on loneliness. [...]
Tótem
Sentimental and manipulative would be the inevitable criticism of Tótem if writer-director Lila Avilés second dramatic feature were a Hollywood studio-driven movie. Luckily, it isn't, though the set-up has all the [...]
American Star
The hitman may be the most overused figure in cinema, particularly in contrast to what hired killers turn out to be in the news stories we really hear about, who [...]