With more than 50 credits to her name (according to IMDb), cinematographer Kirsten Johnson has made a career of observing the world around her and capturing it for us to […]
On 2016’s “Margo,” Haroula Rose mournfully sings: “Your daddy brought you to the ways of the wild / Your mother she left when you reached a certain height” The song […]
As far as low-budget, high-concept science fiction films go (and I feel like we’ve been getting a great many of them over the last six months), the Australian production 2067 […]
As something of a specialist in documentaries about famous people, director John Scheinfeld (Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary, The US vs John Lennon) has taken on one of his […]
There are times where films about the distance between parents and their grown children don’t have to make one party or the other the villain. And in the case of […]
A few years ago, a couple of great World War II films were released; even more than 70 years after the war ended, it remains a deep source of narratives […]
The premise of Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor is the sort of sci-fi make believe that’s so outlandish, a bit of comfort can be found in this otherwise unsettling, intense film. The sort […]
Looking back, I probably first saw the 1970 screen adaptation of playwright Mart Crowley’s 1968 off-Broadway play The Boys in the Band sometime in the late 1980s. And knowing me, […]
I admit, I didn’t know before I spoke with him last week that Mark Rylance had been knighted in 2017, and that my addressing him as anything other than Sir […]
Neurologist, author and generally wonderful human being Oliver Sacks died in 2015 after a months-long battle with cancer. On receiving the news that his prognosis was terminal, he wrote a moving […]
As slow-burns where a woman finds herself increasingly unhinged go, The Swerve is a solid debut from writer/director Dean Kapsalis, starring a diminutive Azura Skye in the central role. She […]
Sometimes shifts in history can be predicted, and other times they happen in unexpected places—such as in the 1970 Miss World competition held every year in London. The film Misbehaviour […]