Nearly everything about writer/director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.’s Wild Indian appears intended to be taken more metaphorically than literally. The characters and events are symbols (well drawn and well acted ones). The fact that the Native American children in the...
Starting with its vintage-style title card (the kind where the copyright year appears below the name of the movie), it’s clear that there will be a throwback element to Ben Wheatley’s latest freak-out/horror/comedy In the Earth. It’s got psychedelic visual...
Pascual Sisto’s John and the Hole belongs to a longstanding cinematic tradition, from Rope to Thoroughbreds and with idiosyncratic stops along the way like Michael Haneke’s Benny’s Video (one scene of which is almost specifically paid homage to here) of...
In its opening scene, in which two old Hawaiian men swap nostalgic memories while peppering their speech with Pidgin words, Christopher Makoto Yogi’s I Was a Simple Man may bring to mind Steve McQueen’s recent Small Axe anthology, which highlighted...
One of the first things that strikes you about Prado Bailey-Bond’s Censor is that, despite being set in early 1980s U.K. amidst the milieu of the era’s controversial “video nasties,” it could not be mistaken for any of those films...
Supplied with the narrative pillars of Sian Heder’s Coda, you could probably map out the basic plot with your eyes closed. A teenage outcast finds a new passion with the help of a caring but bristly instructor but must navigate...