Cannes 2025: Sentimental Value, Romería, The History of Sound
Two highs and a low mark our latest dispatch from the festival.
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KILLER OF SHEEP Blu-ray Review: The Future in a Handful of Concrete Dust
When most people think of American cinema of the 1970s, they focus on New Hollywood, the era of brash independent cinema that blew the roof off the old studio system and offered a more grimy, realistic, intimate look across a...
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Cannes 2025: It Was Just an Accident, Alpha
On a writer's favorite and least favorite film from this year's Cannes competition program.
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Cannes Review: The History of Sound is a Tenderly Felt Drama with Terence Davies-Style Musicality
It’s strange to hear backwood Appalachian fiddle folk in a French theater at the hand of a South African director portraying the queer, song-collecting lives of two American men who are madly, delicately in love and played by British stars....
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Caravan | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
All About My Martyr: Kirchnerová’s Debut Finds the Journey is the Destination For her directorial debut, “Caravan,” Czech director Zuzana Kirchnerová weaves autobiographical elements into a road trip narrative contending with transitional phases of life, and, moreover, motherhood. Buoyed by...
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Cannes Review: It Was Just an Accident is Jafar Panahi’s Fiercest, Most Incendiary Takedown of Iran’s Regime
If you were handed over the man who destroyed your life and those of countless others––a psychopath who tortured, raped, and murdered in the name of a tyrannical system––what would you do? Would you exact revenge or do the impossible––forgive...
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Cannes Review: Heads or Tails is an Ethereal, Lived-In Western
I could name few living filmmakers better equipped for the Western than Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis. The duo behind The Tale of King Crab––a film I revere like a sacred relic––have created their own niche in contemporary...
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SWORD OF VENGEANCE: The Serbian MAD MAX Sells to Multiple Territories
Here is something to keep an eye out for, specifically if you are a fan of post apocalyptic action films like Mad Max or knock-offs like Steel Dawn. Our friends at Jinga Films presented a Serbian post apocalyptic action...
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Cannes 2025: A Private Life, The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
Today's dispatch include Jodie Foster's first French-language film and a sprawling Russian epic about a Nazi monster.
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YES | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Break My Soul: Lapid Explores Compromised Artistry During Wartime Essentially, YES, the latest film from Israeli auteur Nadav Lapid, is a portrait of an artist as a compromised man. Its innocuous title is essentially a rebuke of a contemporary reality...
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