Yorgos Lanthimos, the Greek director of the punishing dramas Dogtooth and The Alps, was not someone who I had pegged for Hollywood success. However, following h...
The protagonist of West of Sunshine, Jim (Damian Hill), is not having a good day. A courier and perpetual fuck-up, he’s a grifter who has alienated all those cl...
As the movie business continues to be dominated by franchises and corporate product, experiences like the Revelation Film Festival are a refreshing reminder of ...
Fifteen years after unleashing the best bad film ever made on an unsuspecting world, Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero have returned to the big screen. Director Jus...
The main image I am stuck with after seeing a screening of The Room is not one from the film itself, it’s one of a sea of plastic spoons, cascading off the scre...
Hereditary’s bravura opening shot moves through a workshop of miniature dollhouses, inching closer and closer to the inside of one of them until, through movie-...
Midnight Oil: 1984 takes us back to a time of widespread gloom and pessimism about the future of the world. The mainstream political groups and their leaders se...
A woman forcibly admitted to a psychiatric hospital struggles to discern reality from delusion. It’s a classic, potentially problematic horror story that forms ...
I didn’t think one of the funniest movies I’d see this year so far would be about a brutal totalitarian state—but then I saw The Death of Stalin.
The film is...
In the first minute of Huff, Cliff Cardinal’s darkly funny, harrowing one-man show, he casually explains the process of his character’s attempted suicide via pl...
