Review

Dear Evan Hansen: Not Quite the Broadway Epiphany

Elias Savada
September 25, 2021
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By Elias Savada. The new movie adaptation, starring a now 27-year-old Platt, has a few problems…. the conversion to the big screen (of this tale concerning social anxiety disorder) brought the play’s A+ grade down to a B-minus.” Just over six years ago, a high school musical captured my heart […]

Review

Defying a Deadly Game: The Alpinist

Elias Savada
September 16, 2021
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By Elias Savada. A penetrating ride up the side of sheer madness, yet a celebration of one man’s individualism.” Been there, seen that. Well, if we’re talking about mountain climbing. No, not me personally. I’ve just watched a lot of rock (climbing) stars in movies glorifying those incredibly epic – […]

Features

Steve Neale: Interrogating Cinema

Frank Krutnik
September 15, 2021
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By Frank Krutnik. Renowned for his groundbreaking work on genre, Neale has also made key interventions into other areas of film and media criticism…. [He] is not afraid to challenge critical orthodoxies, but does so not in a grandstanding manner but with a persuasive equanimity that invites us to rethink […]

Interview

Family Ties: Toby Poser and John Adams on The Adams Family’s Hellbender

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
September 15, 2021
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By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. After seven features, starting when the girls were 6 and 11 years old, we’ve learned how to dance together pretty well. It’s a constant evolution, not only our collective education with camera and sound equipment, but also in building a solid democracy as far as how we […]

Interview

Archetypes and Native American Cinema: Lyle Corbine Jr. on Wild Indian

Ali Moosavi
September 12, 2021
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By Ali Moosavi. Despite the title and the grandiose nature of the film…[Makwa’s journey] was really a personal retelling of things that I’ve seen in my Ojibwe community and the different responses to trauma there.” Wild Indian is the feature film debut of Native American filmmaker Lyle Corbine Jr. Lyle. […]

Review

Old Math, New Tricks: Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter

Elias Savada
September 10, 2021
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By Elias Savada. Some of you may be screaming at Schrader for his obsession with tormented souls in slow-burning, character-driven, and fiercely impulsive dramas. But if anyone’s going to tackle the style, I want him driving the car. And Isaac is his poker face chauffeur in The Card Counter.” In […]

Review

Pervasive Effects: Zhao Liang’s I’m So Sorry

Yun-hua Chen
September 7, 2021
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By Yun-hua Chen. With a rather comprehensive scope, the documentary’s subject matter spans from the mid of 20th century to recent past and ongoing present, and encompasses the full spectrum of nuclear weapons, nuclear plants, and the storage of high-level radioactive waste.” The director of the documentary I’m So Sorry, […]

Features

Remembrance of Things to Come: M. Night Shyamalan’s Old

James Slaymaker
September 7, 2021
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By James Slaymaker. Old reveals itself to be a deeply nuanced, emotionally resonant, structurally experimental and formally rigorous work of art. It’s also a work clearly informed by the collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, even though it doesn’t make any explicit references….” This article contains spoilers for M. Night […]