Liam Neeson once again plays a man with a very particular set of skills—safecracking and bombmaking among them—in “Honest Thief,” a no-frills, low-thrills version of the kind of gritty action picture that has marked the veteran actor’s late-stage career. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThese movies can be gripping and visceral, as…

“David Byrne’s American Utopia” is a joyous expression of art, empathy, and compassion. It is the intersection of two artists—Spike Lee and David Byrne—who have been interrogating how we connect through art for decades. Thirty-six years ago, Byrne and the Talking Heads made one of the best concert films of all time in Jonathan Demme’s…

In Cooper Raiff’s disarming, deceptively simple “Shithouse,” the lonely Los Angeles freshman Alex resembles the college version of Michael Cera’s Evan from “Superbad.” With a pair of wide-set, innocently vulnerable eyes, he walks through the campus and life looking like he’s just trying to figure stuff out, instead of playing it cool like most guys…

“The whole world is watching!” This iconic chant from the protest movement of the ‘60s is featured multiple times in Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” The timing of the film’s release as laws against protest movements in the United States gain traction and one of the most important elections in the country’s history…

This movie’s opening scene is a scenery-chewing feast. Kate Bosworth’s Gigi comes swaggering into a boardroom at Houston’s Shore Oil, wearing a duster that maybe she picked up in the costume trailer for a spaghetti Western, and sets a flask in front of her not too long after sitting down. Read moreA Guide to The…

“You rented a car?!” “Isn’t it snazzy!” Amazon has released an official trailer for Alan Ball’s new film Uncle Frank, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. It also stopped by the Deauville, Atlanta, Mill Valley, and Savannah Film Festivals throughout this year. Writer-director Alan Ball’s heartfelt and hilarious road movie travels…

★★★★ Directed by #PietroMarcello Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by #MaurizioBraucci #PietroMarcello #JackLondon Starring #LucaMartinelli #JessicaCressy Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by Hope Madden “The world is stronger than me.” So opens documentarian turned feature filmmaker Pietro Marcello’s very Italian reimagining of…

★★ Directed by: #StevenBrill Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #AdamSandler & #TimHerlihy Starring: #AdamSandler, #JulieBowen, #KevinJames, #RayLiotta & #SteveBuscemi Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by Connor Slatkoff Sharpe A little over one year ago, Adam Sandler made the ominous statement that…

Welcome to How’d They Do That? — a bi-monthly column that unpacks moments of movie magic and celebrates the technical wizards who pulled them off. This entry looks into the breathing television effect in Videodrome. When David Cronenberg directed Videodrome in the early ’80s, he was coming off of a series of fiercely original indie…

★★★★ Directed by: #SandeepVarma Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #SandeepVarma & #EricNduati Starring: #CeceliaZimmerman & #TiffanyLanders Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: Patrick Foley Wilderness Film Review We’re all being encouraged to spend time outside these days. A walk in the…

For the past two months in Colonial Williamsburg, the living history museum in Virginia, Gowan Pamphlet has stood outside an archaeological excavation, jovially saying hello to passersby. He’s not the original Pamphlet: That one died in 1809, and was the first ordained African American in the United States. This Pamphlet—one of two “actor interpreters” who…

Everybody’s sick to death of hearing about these “unprecedented times”, and nobody more so than film festival organisers. As rising Covid cases started to cancel festivals at the start of the year, festivals were faced with the decision of moving online, or scrapping this year’s edition outright, creating new challenges that may have made films…

Consider Hawaiian pizza: The divisive pineapple-and-ham topped pie is viewed as an abomination by many pizza lovers, including the president of Iceland, who once threatened to ban it. Consider, too, boxed mac and cheese. In a world of wonderful noodle dishes, from silky cacio e pepe to ramen served in a rich broth, Americans dump…

On April 20th, 1968, Enoch Powell stood in front of members of the Conservative Political Centre in Birmingham and gave an oration infamously known as the Rivers of Blood speech. In it, Powell strongly criticised mass immigration and discussed the bill that would introduce the Race Relations Act, widely derided at the time. It was…

“Is that not political?” World of Wonder has unveiled an early trailer for the documentary Wojnarowicz, with a much more provocative full title: Wojnarowicz: F–k You F-ggot F–ker. The film is premiering at the DOC NYC Film Festival next month. Their full description: “Emerging as a distinctive voice in the East Village art scene of…

It was a cold January morning in 2019 when an unfamiliar car rolled into Allendale, a small village nestled within the North Pennines in Northumberland County, England. This wasn’t unusual; in the prior three months the village had seen a fresh influx of visitors, ever since the grand opening of “Neil Cole’s Adventures in Science…

It’s no accident many films and TV shows promote gun control. Yes, most Hollywood activists want more restrictions on the Second Amendment, not less. They’re happy to share those sentiments on awards show stages, social media and press interviews. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonIt still took a group dedicated to tweaking…

Shirley Jackson was, by most accounts, an odd sort. Her feverish gothic tales such “Hangsaman” or “The Haunting of Hill House” were not exactly considered a reasonable thing for a woman to be writing in the mid-50s. Yet her stories captured and terrified the imaginations of people the world over. For all this, she was…

★★★★ Directed by #CooperRaiff Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by #CooperRaiff Starring #CooperRAiff #DylanGelula Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’It takes a certain bravery to cast yourself as a leading man who spends more time talking to his mom and stuffed dog than the…

Constructed during the early 18th-century during the reign of Sultan Ismail bin Sharif, the Kara Prison (or Habs Qara) is a vast subterranean prison in the city of Meknes, Morocco. Its most unusual feature is that it lacked doors and bars, but it’s believed that no one ever escaped. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect…

★★★ Directed by: David Ash Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: David Ash Starring: Matt Bailey, Clarence Wethern, Katie Willer, Bethany Ford Binkley, Christine Weber Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’,,Film Review by: ,,Jason Knight Inner struggles, strong emotions, relationships, romance. There are plenty…