Admittedly, most of the people who go to see The Chaperone probably don’t know much about the pre-fame life of silent film star Louise Brooks (played here by Haley Lu […]

If I have to convince you to go see this documentary chronicling the two Aretha Franklin performances at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in the Watts neighborhood of Los […]

As far as animation houses go, the stop-frame animation loyalists at Laika have a perfect record in my book, with a run that includes ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the […]

You don’t have to like one cinematic version of Hellboy over the other. I wildly adore the two previous films directed by Guillermo del Toro. They are inventive, stylish, beautiful […]

At just an hour and 15 minutes long, The Gospel of Eureka manages to tell quite a story about a small town in Arkansas that celebrates pageantry and panache in equal […]

Knife + Heart, a new French film with a decidedly retro vibe, is not for the faint of…well, the faint of heart. Set in 1979 and starring Vanessa Paradis as […]

There is such haunting truth-telling about the way in which certain fated relationships work in the latest from the great Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke, Ash Is Purest White, that you’re […]

In an alternate version of the current cinematic landscape, one where a film’s best chance at finding an audience is strictly through a theatrical release, a film like The Highwaymen might just […]

This lesser-known curiosity from one of the guiding female voices in independent film in the 1970s and 1980s, Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street, Crossing Delancy), 1977’s Between the Lines is […]

The idea behind the German production Styx is so deceptively simple, and therefore, so highly complex and loaded with relevant ideas, that it’s awe-inspiring how it all comes together. The […]

Coming on the heals of American Dharma, director Errol Morris’s documentary profile on political strategist Steve Bannon, it would seems strange that yet another Bannon doc is making its way […]

One of the problems the makers of the latest adaptation of author Stephen King’s Pet Sematary (and it’s not really a problem at all) is that most people going to […]