One of the four films that lost to The Salesman at the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film came from Denmark, a positively terrifying post-World War II suspense work […]
Last night at the Academy Awards, something odd happened. Brie Larson, who won an Oscar last year for Best Actress for her portrayal of a survivor of sexual assault in […]
Believe it or not, this micro-budget, semi-autobiographical comedy about the life of singer-comedian Henry Phillips is actually a sequel to his 2009 collaboration with director Gregori Viens, Punching the Clown, […]
Providing a genuinely unique, sometimes terrifying, usually hilarious vantage point of the life of a stand-up comic, Dying Laughing features dozens of interviews from top American and British comics, walking […]
This odd, dark romantic-comedy is really just an excuse to watch Gael García Bernal (Y Tu Mamá También, “Mozart in the Jungle”) act up a storm in a story that […]
The set up might seem like it’s from a family-friendly film from a major Hollywood studio that wants to counter-program against so many movies aimed at dog lovers. But Turkish-born […]
I’m genuinely shocked and more than a little troubled that a film as near perfect and genuinely original and effective as The Girl with All the Gifts is getting such […]
The surprise midnight screening at the Sundance Film Festival this year wasn’t much of a surprise by the time it began rolling, but I think it shocked more that a […]
When we first meet Sergius Alexander (Emil Jannings) we are told he is a bit-part actor with little experience. A Hollywood director however is intrigued by his head-shot and wants […]
“Eye opening” doesn’t even begin to describe my reaction to director Mehrdad Oskouei’s Starless Dreams, a deeply revealing documentary that takes a look inside an all-female, mostly juvenile prison in […]
In an effort to expand on the current wave of female-directed horror breakthroughs—such as Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation, Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Jennifer Kent’s […]
A wonderful trend in the last year of film has been the uncovering of long-forgotten (and sometimes, virtually unknown) stories about ground-breaking achievements that have quite literally changed history. While […]