This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2019 coverage. Petra Costa’s criminally underseen 2012 documentary Elena is a deeply personal work about family, dreams and loss. So her new film, The Edge of Democracy, about the short lived rule of Brazil’s...
The major draw of Hampstead is its stars, Diane Keaton and Brendon Gleeson. The rest of the cast is added incentive, seeing as it’s a rounded collective of British actors. There’s Lesley Manville, James Norton, Phil Davis and none other...
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Deep Murder: Gosford Pork, by David Bax Episode 638: Long Awaited Sequels The Dead Don’t Die: Nothing Settled, Nothing Remains, by Scott Nye Wild Rose: I...
It’s so straightforward, it’s disarming. A group of people sit around a table somewhere in Israel, some Jewish Israelis, others Germans or Austrians, all too young to remember the history they’re trying to reckon with and yet forced to reckon...
This review originally ran as part of our LA Film Fest 2018 coverage. Nick Corirossi’s astounding Deep Murder is such a thoroughly committed work of parody that its commitment is, in some ways, actually part of the joke. Take, for instance, the...
If you didn’t know that Nashville’s hockey team was called the Predators and you didn’t know that, a couple of years ago, they renamed a stretch of 5th Avenue to celebrate the team’s appearance in the Stanley Cup final, you...
If the 2019 Met Gala taught us anything, it’s that a lot of folks don’t have a strong grasp on how “camp” is defined. And I’ll be honest; I might be one of them. But I feel like I have...
Agnès Varda’s 1977 One Sings, the Other Doesn’t is set largely in 1972, making it something of a short-haul period piece. The period Varda is regarding is the early 1970s feminist movement in France, which she frames, at first glance,...
