The remake is, yes, a nostalgia play, but the source material has been given a new spark. The post ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Review: Disney’s Live-Action Remake Is a Heartfelt Tribute to Family appeared first on Slant Magazine.
(Check out Savina Petkova’s Alpha movie review. The film just had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “Too much love sometimes makes people crazy,” says the despondent heroin addict Amin...
Buliana Simon Shines In Gritty Immigrant Story That Struggles To Take Flight As the opening credits reveal, Aisha Can’t Fly was developed with the support of almost every international film festival and lab you can think of. Unfortunately, all that...
A few scenes into Urchin, we take a trip through the Bardo. First the camera (as in a million films before this) closes in on a shower drain, but then something new: a tunnel of darkness and color that gives...
While there’s the oft-repeated observation that every generation thinks they are living through the end of the world, the maelstrom of anxieties (both quotidian and universal) in today’s age is particularly concerning, even debilitating for many to comprehend. Anne Émond’s...
Body horror, psychological issues, and social commentary best describe the cinema of Julia Ducournau and we could potentially find the same in what could be flammable material in the competition. She premiered Raw in the Critics’ Week in 2016, and...
Turn to Stone: Ducournau Hits a Wall with Disease Allegory “Death is the cure for all illness,” wrote English writer Thomas Browne, which is a sentiment one can apply to Alpha, the third film from budding body horror extraordinaire Julia...
Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh has been moving up from arthouse The Nile Hilton Incident (read ★★★ review) and genre items The Contractor (read ★★ review) to Cannes type projects such as Cairo Conspiracy aka Boy From Heaven (read ★★½ review)....