On the films of Jonas Trueba — a young Spanish filmmaker...
His middle name is Groucho but his comedy is far from the Marx legacy that influenced his father, Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba, and though...
Little Men and the heartbreaking inevitable — a film review
Get ready, one of the most heart-rending movies of 2016 may be Little Men. It's one of those films that will hit you like...
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World considers the state...
There are few things today as ubiquitous as the internet. Our daily lives are sorted and stored online in a variety of ways, and...
Director Lucile Hadzihalilovic talks about the pleasures of surreal film narrative...
Tonight, Evolution, the sci-fi/horror hybrid by French writer/director Lucile Hadzihalilovic will have its Florida premiere at the Second Annual Popcorn Frights Film Festival (Our review: Evolution...
The Childhood of a Leader presents obscure yet potent portrait of...
The directorial feature debut by American writer/actor Brady Corbet offers an arcane psychological portrait of a little boy who grows up to become a fascist leader. The storytelling...
Evolution skips clear narrative to create waking nightmare of body horror...
Too often, mainstream American horror movies strain to explain circumstances to get to the bottom of a mystery, which often saps an important element...
Under the Shadow builds tension with patience to chilling results —...
It's been a long time since a jump scare has genuinely grabbed me and left me unnerved in the pit of my guts the...
In The Bride a theatrical drama is brought to the big...
The Bride (La Novia) is based on the famous play "Bodas de sangre" by Federico García Lorca, retold through the eyes of Spanish writer-director...
Dheepan winds inner turmoil with tense intimacy — a film review
Shadows obscure life throughout Dheepan, in the drudgery of scraping a living together from nighttime street vending to cleaning out dank common areas in a French...
Suicide Squad is an exasperatingly dull sidebar to super hero genre...
There is nothing in Suicide Squad that shows any hope that an auteur filmmaker can do anything distinctive with the current cash cow of...