Re-entering the Void with the Best Episode of ‘True Detective’
The surreal HBO series’ first-season midpoint — “Who Goes There?” — careens into epically cinematic chaos.
The surreal HBO series’ first-season midpoint — “Who Goes There?” — careens into epically cinematic chaos.

For her debut feature film, the British director Jennifer Sheridan decided to make a vampire movie. Or did she? Is the unsettling, deeply felt horror/drama Rose: A Love Story really a vampire film? Or even a horror movie? It isn’t that scary or that gory, and the focus for the most part is on a bickering couple….

Warning: this film contains depictions of suicide, which are discussed in this review. Center Stage, director Stanley Kwan‘s unusual but undeniably brilliant depiction of the life of silent film star Ruan Lingyu, begins with a series of stills of the actress from her earliest films when she was only 16. Many of these films are…

A man tells a story like his life depends on it (because it does) in Night of the Kings, the latest from director Philippe Lacôte. The young man wasn’t sure what to expect from La Maca, but he sure wasn’t expecting storytime. The isolated prison is run by the prisoners themselves, so when he arrived…

Born locally, in Smithies, Thomas (Tommy) Taylor was in the prime of his life and career as a footballer for both Manchester United and England, when he became one of the eight United players killed in the 1958 Munich Air Disaster. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonBy that time at just 26…

We’ve all imagined how we’d handle the end of the world. Perhaps you think you’d fight heroically to the bitter end against the zombies or aliens, or perhaps you don’t want any part of that and plan on giving up immediately. Either way, we’ve all thought about it, and you’ve probably landed on some clean…

My final report of Amsterdam’s International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) 2020 examines four more incredible films from around the world about a diverse series of subjects. She Had a Dream (Raja Amari) Bearing a title similar to that of MLK’s most famous speech, She Had a Dream is an inspiring story about how a woman…