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Having tackled the stigmatization of epilepsy in cinema in the short form with a proof of concept film back in 2020, filmmaker Miles Levin returns to the same space with his feature debut. Re-teaming with actor Pearce Joza, and also...

The adults in the room may be battling for dominance, but in the end, it’s the one who considers the long-term consequences and deeper implications who truly claims the last word. Comme le feu (aka Who by Fire) delves into...

Basic Instincts: Eggers Taps Into the Bloodlust with Vampy Remake It would seem there’s no one more fitting than Robert Eggers to mount a remake of Nosferatu, the Bram Stoker inspired bloodsucker who first made his appearance in F.W. Murnau’s...

Baby Machines: Delpero Designs Tapestry of Women’s Miseries During WWII Italy Despite the associations suggested by its title, Maura Delpero’s sophomore film Vermiglio is a rather cold, calculating, rigid portrait of an isolated mountain village in Italy at the tail...

In Gints Zilbalodis‘ Cannes Un Certain Regard selected animated film Flow, a diverse group of animals bands together to navigate a post-apocalyptic on….a boat. We have a house cat, a Labrador retriever, a capybara, a lemur and an errant bird...

While liberty and independence are related concepts, they differ in key ways: liberty is about being free from oppressive restrictions, while independence focuses on self-reliance and autonomy. The dynamics between an immigrant and their new homeland, as well as the...

The Safety of Objectivism: Corbet Unleashes the Survival Instinct of Rational Egoism “The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see,” so says the heroic protagonist of Ayn Rand’s sensational 1943 novel The...

In Brady Corbet‘s The Brutalist, László Tóth (Adrien Brody) strives to rebuild his life, but fragments of his past continue to haunt him. However, it’s his resilient wife, Erzsébet, who truly embodies determination and strength. Confined to a wheelchair, Erzsébet...

Triumph of the Will: Almodovar’s Muy Excelente English Debut “Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems,” wrote Virginia Woolf in her seminal essay A Room of One’s Own, published in 1929. She’s a notable reference...

Documentary film items from this past Sundance in Black Box Diaries, Daughters, Frida, Porcelain War, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, Sugarcane, Union and Will & Harper alongside Dahomey (also nominated in Best International Feature category)...