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Montreal Nouveau 2024 Review: THE HYPERBOREANS, The Puppetry of Memory
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Human memory is fallable, at least on an individual level; though as some cultures can tell you, a poor memory has also been of great service to larger groups of people who need to forget, or need others to forget,...
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PIECE BY PIECE Review: Colorful, Engaging, Surface-Deep Bio-Doc
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As a music producer, singer-songwriter/rapper, and serial entrepreneur, Pharrell Williams has been a part of pop music for the better part of three decades, offering his services as producer, singer, and occasional rapper. Along with his longtime friend and business...
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30 Minutes On: Talk Radio
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On one of Oliver Stone's most underrated movies.
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New to Streaming: ME, Coma, Hundreds of Beavers, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person & More
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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Bad Boys: Ride or Die (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah) Bad Boys: Ride...
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Maren Ade Sets First Film Since Toni Erdmann with Magic Word
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With only three stellar features to her name in the last two-plus decades, The Forest for the Trees, Everyone Else, and Toni Erdmann, every new film from Maren Ade comes with much anticipation. While she’s also stayed busy producing no...
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POSIES: ALTER Re-Released Rachel Stavis’ Short Film, Featuring a Score by Chappell Roan
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ALTER has re-released Rachel Stavis' short film Posies yesterday, Thursday, October 10th.   The date is significant because it is also the final date of Chappell Roan's summer tour. I've heard they're a bit of a thing these days. At least as...
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The Friend Directors Scott McGehee & David Siegel on Finding the Perfect Dog, Bill Murray’s Notes, and Avoiding Cliches
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Writer-director duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel have been working together for 30 years, since their debut thrilled Suture in 1994. Since then, they’ve only made seven films, with their latest being The Friend, a comedy-drama adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s...
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SATURDAY NIGHT Review: Jason Reitman Gives SNL the Hagiographic Treatment
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For pre-cable or Internet audiences of a certain vintage and generation, the arrival of a late-night, weekly sketch comedy show, Saturday Night (Live), represented keenly subversive, self-aware, comically absurdist counter-cultural programming. It was the last, sustained gasp of one generation’s...
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Hawaii 2024 Review: Dead Talents Society is a Ghostly Good Time
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Having played TIFF and Fantastic Fest, Dead Talents Society is the latest from director John Hsu, and I’ve just seen his rad Taiwanese ghost horror comedy at Hawaii International Film Festival. Hsu’s last feature was the great 2019 period horror...
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A Conversation with Lina Vdovîi & Radu Ciorniciuc (TATA)
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The new documentary Tata marks Moldovan-born journalist Lina Vdovîi’s feature-directorial debut. She is not alone in the process, working closely with her Romanian husband, Radu Ciorniciuc, with whom she co-wrote his own directorial debut, Acasă, My Home. Together, they explore...
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