By Gary M. Kramer. Keep an Eye Out juggles so many different styles of farcical humor and manipulates the police genre that its few lapses can be forgiven." French writer/director

By Thomas Puhr. A well-crafted genre exercise... ultimately offers mere glimpses of what made The Canal so strange and surprising. One of the great joys of our streaming era is

By Elias Savada. There is plenty of dark humor to be found in this Israeli-American hybrid from Haifa-born and Los Angeles-based director Michael Mayer... horror excursion into impolite Los Angeles

By Alex Ramon. This modest small-town-set charmer, the debut fiction feature of its director, operates with a stealth subversiveness that proves all the more refreshing." The biggest splashes in Polish

By Ali Moosavi. A praiseworthy debut feature for Armenian director Arman Nshanian." Songs of Solomon, which is Armenia’s entry for this year’s Foreign Language Oscars, uses the life of the

By Yun-hua Chen. Probing deep into the possibilities of filmmaking, Simon Lavoie invites his audience into a trance-like journey...." Slamdance Film Festival, the premiere festival with the mission of “by

By Elias Savada. The combination of hallucinogenic talk radio sketches and Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle on steroids affords actor R. Michael Gull to follow the filmmakers' urgings: 'Let's just make

The Leftovers (HBO, 2014-17) A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. While the collection lacks cohesion, the entries are consistently strong when considered in isolation; consequently, Apocalypse TV might work best as a