Film Review: 'The Hunt' examines influence of the crime on judgement
As one can expect from the director who made a name for himself with the Celebration, Thomas Vinterberg’s the Hunt (Jagten) feels like a brutal roller coaster...
Summing up “Rocktober”
After a too long dry spell of visiting bands in South Florida, October was packed with out-of-town acts I wanted to see live. I...
Film Review: 'Blackfish' presents brutal picture of orcas in captivity
Blackfish trains its lens on killer whales in captivity and the cover-up of tragedies involving one orca in particular who seemed to turn psychotic:...
Film review in Film Comment: ‘The Lesson’ opens April 17 in...
"Film Comment" invited me to contribute a movie review not too long ago. They assigned me a small Bulgarian movie called The Lesson, directed by...
It Follows strips horror to its core — a film review
Sometimes you have to strip back the horror to make a horror movie work. It Follows does that to thrilling effect, keep gore to a...
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...
'X-Men: Days of Future Past:' an Independent Ethos take on a...
With X-Men: Days of Future Past, Bryan Singer returns to directing the characters he first successfully brought to the big screen more than 10 years...
Crocodiles melt eardrums with droning pop bliss
I have seen many live shows in my years appreciating alternative music, including some loud ones. Ever since EMF left me in so much...
My Golden Days explores the distorting filter of time with keen...
“I am not Ulysses. No nostalgia for my country,” says the anthropologist Paul Dédalus (Mathieu Amalric) to a lover in Greece. With a title...
Pete and the Pirates stream new album ahead of May 24...
After several mentions on "the Independent Ethos" about the work of Reading, England's Pete and the Pirates and progress on the band's sophomore album...