For a young-adult story, the concept of Uglies is certainly intriguing, if somewhat familiar: in a post-scarcity dystopian future, everyone is considered an “ugly,” and the powers-that-be decide that if […]
Except for the constant presence of supporting players who have all worked with writer/director Kevin Smith in some capacity in the last 30 years, the filmmaker’s latest work, The 4:30 […]
Directed by Lana Wilson (the Taylor Swift doc Miss Americana, and the Brooke Shields profile Pretty Baby), Look Into My Eyes is a truly fascinating examination of psychics/mediums living in […]
Shortly after watching Speak No Evil, I went back to my original review of the 2022 Danish horror sensation of the same name directed by Christian Tafdrup, and noticed that […]
For millions of would-be typing students in the late 1980s through the 1990s, the educational software known as Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing instructed people around the world using a digital […]
From the masterful writer/director Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room, Blue Ruin, Hold the Dark) comes Rebel Ridge, the story of ex-Marine Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre, The Underground Railroad), who comes to […]
Directed by the great Alex Gibney (The Inventor, Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and divided into two distinct parts, Wise Guy: David Chase […]
The things that bring family together, when simply being related isn’t enough of a reason to do so—this is the running theme of writer/director Azarel Jacobs’ (Terri, The Lovers, French […]
Say what you want about the debut feature from writers/directors Max and Sam Eggers (brothers of filmmaker Robert Eggers, who helmed The Witch and The Lighthouse, as well as the […]
Filmmaker Tim Burton has garnered a reputation as a visionary and for being quite odd, and there’s nothing out there that says the two can’t be contained in a single […]
The latest work from Spanish-born director Guillem Morales (Julia’s Eyes) begins as a domestic drama with Heather (Naomie Harris) engaged in an almost psychotic war with the occasional wasp that […]
Few filmmakers merged the personal and professional as gracefully as producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory. Their partnership ushered in the Golden Age of art-house cinema in the mid-1980s, […]