Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
The film seemed like the ideal ending point for the lowbrow slasher series.
I suppose by the time you’re up to episode five of a redundant slasher series, you’ve got to spice things up somehow.
The film feels more like a harbinger for the Scream series with its self-aware jokiness.
Reckoning renders a crucial judiciary of last resort about as inspiring as a conference call.
When I began this essay, it was Friday, May 8th, 2009, and Transformers celebrated 25 years of near-continuous presence in various media.
That the film was adapted from a novel is gawkily evident not only in the bare details of the above synopsis.
It’s possible to imagine a sardonic filmmaker like Lars von Trier doing justice to the premise of Imagine That.
Portrait of an Artist as Rambo: A Conversation with Flooding with Love for the Kid’s Zackary Oberzan
Oberzan discusses his appreciation of action heroes, mind versus body control, Stallone versus Van Damme, and so much more.
Sex Positive is a bracingly unsentimental and evocative documentary about AIDS politics in ’80s America
Still and all, Preston is in full-on Captain Ahab mode and remains undeterred by the struggle.
Are Tony Scott’s films actually directed by Google Earth?
Antarctica’s McMurdo station is given further big-screen exposure by BLAST!
Understanding Screenwriting #26: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Angels & Demons, In Plain Sight, & More
Sometimes it’s the writers.
Une Femme Mariée may inspire more verbal hesitation than any of the films that preceded it in Godard’s oeuvre.
The film gives visible shape to Coppola’s ambivalent attitude toward the ability of fiction to help us understand our own lived past.
Half of Food Inc.’s struggle to shake viewers out of their complaisance is won by a simple acknowledgment.
Most beguiling here are the handful of moments devoted to N’Dour’s activism.
Departures is still just about potent enough to leave us with lingering questions.
Outrage has more to tell us about the screwed-up priorities of closeted gay careerists than even Angels in America.
Throughout Erick Zonca’s Julia, it’s as if criminal pathology were a scale of musical notes and Julia their virtuosic interpreter.