Why The Shimmer in ‘Annihilation’ is an allegory for the U.S.’s foreign policy [Retrospective]
Alex Garland’s sophomore directorial feature, Annihilation, explores the ideas of corruption, destruction, and rebirth. Throughout the film, The Shimmer, also referred to as “Area X,”... Read More
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Martin Scorsese’s timeless ‘Boxcar Bertha’ and the Marxist undertones of his often overlooked early classic [Retrospective]
1972’s Boxcar Bertha is an often overlooked, critically debated entry into Martin Scorsese’s filmography, mostly because it is a departure from his usual themes and... Read More
‘Training Day’ at 20: Welcome back to the jungle [Retrospective]
Twenty years since it first hit theaters, Training Day (2001) is likely best remembered as the film that netted Denzel Washington his first Oscar win... Read More
‘Bound’ at 25: The mold-breaker of queer cinema still has us tied up after all these years [Retrospective]
As the world awaits the return of the groundbreaking Matrix film franchise in December, it’s worth taking a moment to celebrate the 25th anniversary this... Read More
‘My Own Private Idaho’ at 30: Revisiting the seminal arthouse indie through the eyes of a lonely, horny teenager [Retrospective]
To this day, I still feel a close kinship with the disenfranchised, strung-out, narcoleptic gay hustler of Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho. The... Read More
‘Glitter’ 20 years later: How its legacy and Mariah Carey have continued to shine
“Dear God, it’s all so tragic And I’ll never have the chance To feel the closure that I ultimately need…” These are some of the... Read More
The legacy of ‘The Sandlot’ is still a home run almost 30 years later
As America’s national past time, the sport of baseball has contributed to some of the most beloved family films in past decades. The Field of... Read More
25 years later, the radical queerness of ‘A Very Brady Sequel’ lives on
We’re living in an IP hellscape. Superheroes dominate the box office, Disney shamelessly mimeographs their earlier animated offerings, and (although I turned it off an... Read More
Retrospective: 20 years later, Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway remain the brightest crown jewels of ‘The Princess Diaries’
“Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Renaldi. Princess. Of. Genovia.” Give a woman of a certain age a microphone (and several cocktails—guilty) and she can easily recite this... Read More
Retrospective: 5 years later, ‘Shin Godzilla’ is still the beacon of hope we need
The Godzilla franchise is 67 years old. Six decades of a dedicated fan-base that has embraced some of the silliest, wackiest ideas that have ever... Read More
2026 True/False Film Fest Dispatch #1: ‘The Oldest Person in the World,’ ‘Broken English’ 
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