It’s been seven years since the last Brian De Palma film, and it’s tempting to greet his latest as an extraordinary breath of fresh air. The director’s influence has perhaps never been more palpable, with seemingly every other Netflix thriller...
This review originally as part of our TIFF 2018 coverage. Even if you didn’t know going in that Patricia Rozema’s Mouthpiece is an adaptation of a play (by writers/stars Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava), it wouldn’t take you long to guess as...
It’s the middle of the Cannes Film Festival and it seems directors’ greatest fear today is not criticism but rather the modern malaise of spoiler culture. Bong Joon-Ho’s latest is preceded by a letter from the South Korean director himself,...
There is a book published in 1991 called A Quiet Revolution that centers around the inspiring work of Guadalajaran born modernist architect Luis Barragán, featuring a collection of material culled from his archives; documents, drawings, and photographs. For the first...
The act of looking back, of examining the past, is a key feature of human consciousness and arguably the primary function of art itself–to render a narrative so we can understand ourselves. As we look back over an incredibly violent...
I know you’re expecting this fable to start in the summer of ’69. After all, that’s when the story you know happens, well, happens. But things started going wrong a bit before and when we first meet TV actor Rick...
To say that Laurel Canyon was a hotbed of musical creativity and innovation in the 60s is like telling you that you are breathing air at this very moment; yes, it is an immutable truth but it’s not necessarily something you’re...
Not since the Overlook hotel appeared on screen has any piece of remote real estate been so ominous and obviously dangerous as the simple, weather-beaten lighthouse on the coast of Maine that sits atop a cragged landscape in Robert Eggers’...
The Turner family, typically blue-collar and traditional (a husband, a wife, a teenage son and a ten year old daughter), are about to try for a more ambitious lot in life when Ricky (Kris Hitchen) realizes that, the way things...
Something threatening hangs over the village of Bacurau, in western Pernambuco. But perhaps no one cares. After all, in the near future, it has been literally erased from the map. When the new film by Kleber Mendonça Filho, this time...
