By Elias Savada. Just because Hawaii has protected its underseas reefs, sand, and rocks from pilferage, the state has taken a totally opposite approach to protect the sea life that

By Ali Moosavi. Though a simple story, The Perfect Candidate is a quiet gem that explores a number of deep-rooted issues regarding the rights of women in conservative societies, how

By Edward Avery-Natale. The documentary zooms in on particular individuals and bands without falling victim to the easy and well tread path of tracing only the few bands that everyone

By Elias Savada. Strings a handful of grisly murder traps together in its fairly mundane whodunit frame." As the Saw horror series goes, its new spinoff, being fully titled Spiral:

By Theresa Rodewald. Whether the film wants its audience to revel in or ignore the casual, low-key sexism and the gratifying violence towards women is unclear. But it definitely expects

By Elias Savada. This is one of the most unusual alien visitation films you'll ever watch. Especially if you don't give any thought to why the other-worldly presence was careless

By Thomas Puhr. If you’re willing to surrender to the testosterone-saturated, borderline fascistic dialogue – at times, the characters’ locker room banter sounds like it’s taken from a subpar John

By Thomas Puhr. Does a document of a unique place not lost some of its impact if packaged in a sociocultural vacuum? Perhaps, but as a means to contemplation and