Sometimes it’s nice to show up at the cinema for a genre programmer that gives you exactly what you expect — a polished studio horror movie that doesn’t reach for the stars but thrives ...

Girl, Close, Coward. On the surface, they’re almost aggressive in their curtness, rigid in their definition. But underneath lies the truth, ...

Leah Nelson’s latest animated film, Tangles, is an emotionally devastating tearjerker that studies the painful and troubling experience of a family dealing with Alzheimer’s. There is always one or ...

Simply the idea of coming to the Cannes Film Festival carries with it a slew of hopes and dreams, a true pinch me experience at one of the most glamorous and prestigious international film ...

On episode 155 of the Director Watch Podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter are joined by podcaster, film critic Bob Goochman discuss the next film in their Christopher Nolan series, ...

Few television soundtracks in recent memory have captured audiences quite like Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette. Packed with iconic ’90s artists ranging from Kate Bush ...

There’s a moment early in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s wondrous new film, All of a Sudden, where the camera focuses on an old photo of a woman as a pilot. There’s a matter-of-fact stillness to the image, ...

André Brassard’s 1974 French Canadian film Il était une fois dans l’Est (Once Upon a Time in the East), a story of cabaret drag queens in Montreal, sets the stage for the 1980s set The Man I ...

For many in America, there has been a shift over the course of the last decade, where educators have become less open to teach things to students that can be seen as controversial, radical, and ...

With A Woman’s Life, director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet is less interested in telling a conventional midlife crisis story than in portraying a constant state of emotional fragmentation. Her film ...

Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva has won the top award at the 65th edition of Critics Week, the Ami Paris Grand Prize, while Aina Clotet’s Viva (Alive) won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star ...

In Clarissa, a group of friends are sitting for lunch at a vacation home in Abraka, Nigeria when their topic of conversation shifts to politics. One character asks a question that spotlights the ...