Some films are not about character revelations or plot. Sometimes, you’re merely fed information and allowed the space to come to your own conclusions. Chiwawa chooses to present the world as a messy moving target, without e...
It’s difficult, and possibly unfair, to separate Filipino director Adolfo Boringa Alix, Jr.’s Mystery of the Night from the ideas it’s representing. The film uses folkloric techniques to tell a story about love, ...
More often than not, horror lies in the unknown. In rare occurrences, like those shown in 1BR, knowing everything is even scarier.
Alice Waddington’s directorial debut Paradise Hills is an ambitious but messy near-future dystopia tale that feels like a watered-down Hunger Games or a middling piece of episodic television.
In December of 1974, 20th Century Fox released a film based in part on The Phantom of the Opera plus some bits of the tale of Faust and a dash of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Directed by Brian De Palma and starring William Finley, ...
Measuring your expectations for the fifth entry into any horror franchise is just good common sense. Keeping low expectations for the latest Critters movie, the non-theatrically released Critters Attack!, is good self-preservation...
Ulaa Salim’s Sons of Denmark is a bravura, thrilling, and highly energized debut that’s evocative of filmmakers with far more experience. A story about race, culture, and the rise of Right Wing demagoguery that’s...
Hard Core Logo and Pontypool director Bruce McDonald’s latest film, Dreamland, brings vampire tropes, Lynchian surrealism, and a love of cool Jazz to audiences that may or may not be receptive to the trippy tale.
From South Korea, where genre mash-ups are frequently the biggest box office success of the year, comes Extreme Job, a combination of cop drama, broad comedy, and food porn that’s one of the most madcap films you’ll ev...
Capturing mental health issues on screen without victimization or exploitation may feel like a fool’s errand. Swallow is not a foolish film, and its gamble pays off handsomely.
Daniel Goldhaber’s Cam, written by Isa Mazzei, is a provocative, intelligent thriller that also happens to be extremely seductive. It toys with eroticism and exhibitionism but never veers into the salacious or exploitational...
There are few things more pleasing than silliness done seriously, what the members of Spinal Tap famously dubbed the thin line between clever and stupid. When a movie falters in this tightrope act, it can be abysmal. It’s a ...
