Since its premiere at last year’s Locarno Film Festival, we’ve long-awaited the U.S. release of Ramon Zürcher’s The Sparrow in the Chimney, the trilogy-capper following the formally thrilling The Strange Little Cat and The Girl and the Spider. Starring Maren Eggert, Britta Hammelstein,...
You can say that Danny Boyle was once the filmmaking avatar of Cool Britannia: a director who, at age 40, still managed to perfectly capture the zeitgeist of 20-year-olds, as seen in Trainspotting. In the span of time between then...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our Venice 2024 coverage. Familiar Touch opens in theaters on June 20. In a sunny kitchen in California, Ruth prepares a sandwich with the muscle memory that only a lifetime allows....
The film’s conception of the future, perceptively, looks back to humankind’s primeval past. The post ‘28 Years Later’ Review: Danny Boyle’s Thrillingly Staged Vision of the Horrors Within Us appeared first on Slant Magazine.
Out of Kenya’s population of 53 million, 8 million are widows. Many face not just the pain of loss, but the added trauma of being pushed out of their homes, denied their land, and labeled with cruel names: “witch,” “murderer,”...
Before our official launch, Kevin Jagernauth and I had the chance to review Audrey Diwan’s third feature film, Emmanuelle —a NEON release under their Decal label, which premiered at the 2024 San Sebastián Film Festival and comes to us on...