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

By Elias Savada. Graham plays you with creaking floorboards, flashlights shining in dusty interiors, and just plain gloom." Fans of last year's Tenet know that its title connects to the

A Book Review by Tanja Bresan. Townsend successfully rips out the sentimentally and nostalgia of the counterculture era in which the film is set, serving cold facts.... reading the events

By Ali Moosavi. Bahman Maghsoudlou has produced such a comprehensive, yet intimate portrait of this great and tragic icon of the Iranian Cinema." Ask any scholar of the Iranian Cinema