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There has recently been a slew of directors reminiscing on their experience with cinema and art how it shaped them. From Spielberg’s self-lacerating The Fabelmans, to James Gray’s ‘portrait of the art…
Once upon a time James Wan decided to make a film about real life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga). In 2013 The Conjuring universe was born and has thu…
Mark H. Rapaport’s debut feature Hippo knows it is profoundly wicked and distasteful. We often talk about films being like the love child of other films, but Hippo is distinctly a hate child. Yorgos L…
It almost seems unfair to discuss Mel Eslyn’s brilliant Biopshere. Star and co-writer Mark Duplass has been urging people to go in completely blind to the film, and frankly this is the best way to exp…
There have been so many iterations of Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles it would be nigh on impossible to list them. From the self-published early eighties comic riffing on…
“Some crossings cost you your whole life,” is a line from a play by Nora Moon (Greta Lee) an immigrant from South Korea now living in New York City via Canada. Leaving Seoul when she was twelve in 200…
Ah, theater kids… you gotta love ‘em, right? If you do love them Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman’s Theater Camp is for you. If you don’t love them Theater Camp is also for you. Extending their short f…
Marketing people know what’s up when they pitched Strays as coming from the studio that brought you Ted and Cocaine Bear instead of the director of the gloriously side-splitting Barb and Star Go to Vi…
“This is the only thing that is real,” says Rebecca (Margaret Qualley) to Hal (Christopher Abbott) in Zachary Wigon’s psychosexual thriller and melodrama, Sanctuary. There is a world outside our two p…
This review contains mention of sexual assault, gaslighting, and toxic masculinity. It’s no mistake that Jack Clark and Jim Weir have a visual cue in the form of a Wake in Fright poster in the backgr…
“It’s a dangerous business,” says the permanently aggressive Cleve, a hairdresser competing in a regional competition. Thomas Hardiman’s high camp debut feature Medusa Deluxe starts with horrors insid…
It could be argued The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson’s metatextual cinema amour to The New Yorker was perhaps the pinnacle of the Texan director’s affair with art and authorship. Where was the fantast…