I live in Los Angeles, and I can tell you two things are ubiquitous: helicopters and an insatiable appetite for live news. If you don’t... Read More
Film Festivals
Hollywood, despite its recent struggles, still remains at the forefront of the movement to push through more opportunities for women and minorities. With that push... Read More
The most delicate moments of Supernova, the sublime sophomore feature from British director Harry Macqueen, don’t actually happen on screen; they’re seldom, even, explicitly textual.... Read More
Despite manufacturing more thankless sequels than original films, Pixar’s name has only become increasingly synonymous with emotionally charged storytelling in the past decade – and... Read More
“The future is ours” says Banafshe, an Iranian woman in Germany on the verge of deportation, towards the end of No Hard Feelings (Futur Drei).... Read More
Gaëtan Dugas was a handsome French-Canadian flight attendant who, like most gay men in the seventies, dove headfirst into the pleasure-as-politics ethos of the burgeoning... Read More
Some documentaries take its subject matter to heart which also involves probing and delicately unfolding it at the same time. Others are so determined to... Read More
“Because you were home” is still a chilling phrase twelve years later. Bryan Bertino burst onto the horror scene with The Strangers, a divisive film... Read More
It’s autumn of 1973, but you wouldn’t know it. As a plane flies above, what’s below is a settlement that looks 100 years in the... Read More
“I saw it in a movie” is something everyone has said at least once, and it’s this phrase that’s the essence of Sam Quah’s feature... Read More
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