Adapting videogames into other media, specifically film or television, has often proven to be a challenge many accept willingly, but few actually succeed in translating the gameplay mechanics, design, or conception into an equally immersive experience. It’s made all...
Amalia Ulman has followed El Planeta, one of this decade’s most auspicious debuts, with the equal-parts caustic and sincere Magic Farm. With its limited release beginning today, I had the fortune of speaking with her and Chloë Sevigny in an...
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. Babygirl (Halina Reijn) Premiering with much fervor at the Venice Film Festival, Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies...
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageTom Gunning is celebrated in a weekend-long series featuring M on 35mm, Hal Hartley’s Flirt, and an avant-garde program; films by Buster Keaton and Renny Harlin...
A filmmaker whose work always renders as thrillingly intimate and alive, Roberto Minervini (Stop the Pounding Heart, What You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire?) took another unexpected turn in his latest film. The Damned, which picked up the...
Tom Hardy is Walker, a bent detective in a nondescript American city, fighting his way through the criminal underworld. Walker is turning his city inside out, searching for the son of a corrupt politician with whom he has had past...
Tom Hardy simultaneously fights corrupt cops and the Triad from the director of The Raid is, on paper, a pretty amazing pitch. Marrying Hardy’s gruff pivot back to genre fare––i.e. MobLand––after a number of years in the Venom wilderness with...