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By Ali Moosavi. I found this character tragic and moving. He had such a traumatic event happen to him and
By Ali Moosavi. We're all carrying so many years of this trauma and so the film for me is really
By Thomas Puhr. It didn’t go where I expected it to. And at the end of the day, isn’t that just about one of the best things a movie (especially
By Thomas Puhr. The Stuart Gordon ingredients are indeed there, though the film which precedes this loving dedication fails to do anything interesting with them." Rich Ragsdale’s The Long Night
By Theresa Rodewald. Unconventional and even daring while not appearing to be so." “I am making this statement as an act of willful defiance of military authority because I believe
By Thomas Puhr. Despite some striking imagery and a strong central performance, Videophobia never exceeds a low boil." Daisuke Miyazaki’s Videophobia (2019) begins with an extended masturbation scene. You’d think
By Jeremy Carr. Doesn’t hold a candle to Gaspar Noé’s best work, though it does represent the worst of his occasionally strained attempts for shock and awe." With no establishing
By Thomas Puhr. Beyond just chronicling an event, Klein's sports doc is a cultural artifact in and of itself – not about the time, but of it. With this year’s
By Elias Savada. A vibrant celebration of homegrown culture set against an African dreamscape tinged with Marxist underpinnings." Thou Shalt Not Exploit Technology might be one of the newer commandments
By Jeremy Carr. The imagery of Los tallos amargos is not only its most strikingly noirish attribute, but it’s among the more dazzling of any film, of any genre." A
By Thomas Puhr. It didn’t go where I expected it to. And at the end of the day, isn’t that just about one of the best things a movie (especially a horror outing) can have going for it?” Watching Luke Boyce’s Revealer (2022) gave me a much-needed lesson in patience. […]
By Ali Moosavi. I found this character tragic and moving. He had such a traumatic event happen to him and he couldn’t get free of it…. I think that’s something people can identify with….” –Michael Shannon There is a long tradition of movies about a woman or a man psychologically […]
By Ken Hall. A serviceable, well-made Western with some compelling characters and excitingly staged action scenes.” Directed by Australian Richard Gray and filmed in Montana, Murder at Yellowstone City appears at the outset to be just another Leone-influenced “realistic” Western. As the narrative progresses, however, the film, scripted by Eric […]
By Thomas Puhr. The Stuart Gordon ingredients are indeed there, though the film which precedes this loving dedication fails to do anything interesting with them.” Rich Ragsdale’s The Long Night (2022) – we learn during its end credits – is dedicated to schlock-master Stuart Gordon. This comparison makes sense: the […]
By Theresa Rodewald. Unconventional and even daring while not appearing to be so.” “I am making this statement as an act of willful defiance of military authority because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it,” writes poet Siegfried Sassoon […]
By Thomas Puhr. Despite some striking imagery and a strong central performance, Videophobia never exceeds a low boil.” Daisuke Miyazaki’s Videophobia (2019) begins with an extended masturbation scene. You’d think such an opener would – at the very least – grab the viewer’s attention, but the sequence somehow lands with […]
By Jeremy Carr. Doesn’t hold a candle to Gaspar Noé’s best work, though it does represent the worst of his occasionally strained attempts for shock and awe.” With no establishing context and following a few curious quotes and seemingly random clips from early films about witchcraft, Gaspar Noé’s Lux Æterna […]
By Ali Moosavi. We’re all carrying so many years of this trauma and so the film for me is really about helping our community acknowledge that this happened but also how we should heal from it.” Ever since 9/11 Islamophobia in the West, in particular USA, has been on the […]
By James Slaymaker. The Great Swindler deserves to be recognised as a major work that sheds light on Godard’s attitude towards technology, critical reflexivity, and the shortcomings of the classical documentary mode.” Considered as a whole, Jean-Luc Godard’s filmography may be read as a reflexive historiography of the transforming technologies […]
By Thomas Puhr. Beyond just chronicling an event, Klein’s sports doc is a cultural artifact in and of itself – not about the time, but of it. With this year’s French Open making the rounds on the news, now is an ideal opportunity to revisit the tournament’s famous 1981 competition, […]