How does one approach a film that reveals everything about itself in its opening sequence? Do we applaud its ability to summarize its themes succinctly?…
If you watch Trigger Warning, Netflix’s latest big-budget action movie, with captions turned on, you may notice the phrase “terrorist, in Arabic” in the film’s…
Asif Kapadia has had an enviably diverse career as a director, but he’s established himself over the last 15 years — across three films, in…
Given the baffling and total absence of any marketing from Netflix, the fact that cult movie mainstay Takashi Miike made his return to the genre…
A good animal attack movie doesn’t need to overstuff its checklist. Basically, all the film needs to do is trap a bunch of folks in…
If one is to survey a slate of HBO’s flagship programming — say, The Sopranos, Succession, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, and now House of…
Am I OK?, the directorial debut of Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, is a simple, mostly familiar coming-out story that follows Lucy (Dakota Johnson), a…
With obituaries for theatrical filmgoing being filed on an almost weekly basis, it’s worthwhile to recall that we’re but six years removed from a phenomenon…
Adapted from a 2001 article published in Texas Monthly and very loosely inspired by the life of law enforcement personnel Gary Johnson, Richard Linklater’s Hit…
Not that every filmmaker is expected to prove their unique vision upon signing their directorial debut, but French-Greek actress and dancer Ariane Labed, unfortunately, had…
It might be a little premature to have the “late style” conversation with regard to the highly prolific Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who turns 69 in July.…
The latest movie star to fight the machines is Jennifer Lopez, the title character in the extremely generic Atlas. It’s the future, of course, and…
In 1969, in the same year that Sesame Street was born, Jim Henson wrote and directed a 53-minute dystopian Twilight Zone-style film called The Cube.…
It wasn’t all that long ago when it seemed John Green’s shine couldn’t be blocked. A Young Adult author coming of prominence during the great…
In her previous film Wet Sand, Georgian director Elene Naveriani depicted a clash between the urbane, laid-back values of Tbilisi and the small-minded cruelty of…
Fan fiction has long been an outlet for superfans to reimagine worlds and celebrities, weaving narratives out of their wildest fantasies. Whether you call it…
In a 2021 Bomb Magazine interview with RaMell Ross, filmmaker Turner Ross articulates the method that he and his brother, Bill, utilize when embarking upon…
As of this writing, Sam Raimi has just tapped Sébastien Vaniček to helm a new Evil Dead movie. Based on the evidence of Infested, Vaniček’s…
A full quarter century after Earth inaugurated the Disneynature brand — add a year to that if you count The Crimson Wing in 2008, but…