Much like Terence Malick’s return to feature filmmaking after a 28-year hiatus with 1998’s The Thin Red Line, the return of celebrated Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice to our big screens […]
When we first meet small town cop Terry (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), he’s telling a joke so tasteless and ill-advised for the workplace that we know exactly who this guy is and […]
For reasons that don’t quite make sense even to me, the prospect of actor Zoë Kravitz directing/co-writing a film (with E.T. Feigenbaum) has filled me with excitement since I heard […]
As much as I tend to cringe at the idea of most film remakes, for some reason, the thought of legendary Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo (Face/Off, Broken Arrow, Hard […]
From the highly entertaining and inventive horror filmmakers The Adams Family (last year’s Where The Devil Roams, and 2021’s Hellbender) comes their take on and love letter to classic sci-fi-driven […]
Based on the best-selling 2013 novel by Edward Kelsey Moore (adapted by Cee Marcellus, which is actually a pen name for Gina Prince-Bythewood, with revisions by director Tina Mabry), The […]
Plenty of movies are meant to be an escape, a fleeting couple hours’ entertainment featuring superheroes or meet-cutes or triumphant protagonist’s journeys. In the world of documentaries, escapism is hard […]
Set 20 years after the original Ridley Scott-directed Alien, Alien: Romulus centers on a much younger but no less grungy group of characters who escape their mining colony home/prison planet […]
Although the film isn’t meant to be autobiographical, it probably comes as no surprise that Close to You star/producer Elliot Page has a “Story by” credit for this small and […]
Feeling more like a well-made TV movie of the week than an actual big-screen film, Skincare is the feature debut by director Austin Peters (a popular music video director, who […]
This article was written by Zachary Lee and originally published as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. It wasn’t slotted in the Midnight section, but War Game, from directors Jesse […]
It’s never a great sign when a film’s protagonist utters the movie’s title in a line of dialogue, however perfectly placed or delivered. Such is the case for It Ends […]