The Little Stranger tangles with ghosts of the past and future
Ghosts don’t actually exist, but the ghosts that haunt The Little Stranger are as real as can ever be depicted in a work of...
The Nightingale makes revenge unsettling
There hasn’t been a movie this year that has so consistently moved me as much as the violent, horrifying revenge film The Nightingale. A...
Michael Gordon and Bill Morrison talk about their Miami Beach city...
It’s been 12 years since Bill Morrison came to Miami and blew the minds of a nearly packed house with Decasia in a large screening room...
The Salesman tests morals limits of a good husband — a...
It’s easy to consider hypothetical reactions when one is confronted with moral quandaries in the movies -- especially in Hollywood movies. Good and evil...
Film review: ‘A Late Quartet’ offers intimate look at musicians and...
I love musicians. Many of my friends are musicians. I was once a student of music, and I have spent a couple of decades...
Hail Satan? reveals The Satanic Temple as crusaders for individual rights
In the wake of recent anti-abortion legislation passing in Alabama and moving along in other states, including the possibility of a similar bill planned...
Amy: the vicious pop media machine and the woman unfit to...
You don’t need this movie to show you Amy Winehouse was an independent spirit at heart, but feature filmmaker turned documentary filmmaker Asif Kapadia hits the...
'Begin Again' makes for an endearing follow-up in the shadow of...
Sometime past the halfway point of Begin Again, ex-record executive and occasional drunk Dan (Mark Ruffalo) tells his new discovery, the British singer-songwriter Gretta...
'The Blue Room' captures the sense of memories in murder-mystery full...
I’ve only ever noticed Mathieu Amalric as an actor. I had no idea he could direct, and what an introduction to his directing is...
Alejandro Jodorowsky replies to my questions via email – Spanish version
The legendary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky finally responded to my questions via email. He prefers to communicate in Spanish, so I had to ask these questions...