Photosensitivity Warning: The climax of the film includes an extended sequence of flashing that may prove triggering for photosensitive individuals. Take precautions. “Information devours its own content. It devours communication and the social.” – Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation from… Read More ›
When the world first stopped to hear the voice of Hind Rajab, the little girl from Gaza hiding from bullets in her family’s car, Kaouther Ben Hania was standing frozen in the airport. Now, she’s delivered a masterpiece that asks… Read More ›
“All my memories are movies.” – George Clooney as Jay Kelly in Jay Kelly (2025). As a child born on the cusp of 1981, I reside firmly on line between Gen X and Millennial, meaning that I can remember a… Read More ›
It didn’t used to feel complicated to be Jewish before October 7th, 2023, and the Israeli-Gaza Conflict began. Having grown up in a Reform Jewish household, I believed in the existence of and even the right of a Jewish state… Read More ›
There are movies you read the title for and think it’s something from Tropic Thunder (2008) (meaning a fake movie or a movie within another movie) and not something that could possibly exist. Then there are movies like Movie 43… Read More ›
Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has built an indie career leaning into his eccentricities and mixing his artistic sensibilities. It’s how we get the zombie apocalypse comedy The Dead Don’t Die (2019), the melancholic vampiric love story Only Lovers Left Alive (2013),… Read More ›
In 1982, audiences were invited to go on a sci-fi fantasy adventure in which a programmer, Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), determined to find proof he’d been cheated by a former co-worker, found himself digitally deconstructed and reconstituted within the very… Read More ›
One of the great joys of exploring cinema is the opportunity to see films from around the world. Sometimes that includes seeing films before they receive wider distribution, which allows for the opportunity to herald a film’s arrival. What follows… Read More ›
One can never really know the impact something can have until well after a moment in time has passed. Considering the stories shared by the creative team behind Tim Burton’s feature film debut, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, in the featurette “I… Read More ›
Photosensitivity Warning: There is a brief sequence of strobing that may trigger migraine or other neuro reactions from sensitive viewers. Be advised that it’s well into the film and occurs only once in the back half of the adventure. Less… Read More ›
Storyteller Bryan Fuller has made a career out of “making it weird.” This is by no means a compliant, it’s an apt descriptor when one considers his calling-card projects are titles such as TV series Dead Like Me (2003-2004; 2009),… Read More ›
When people say that art should be political, what they really mean is that they don’t want to ingest films that might challenge their political views. They want to be entertained, not preached to. This is a childish perspective because… Read More ›
A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation; A wondrous thing of our dreaming Unearthly, impossible seeming — The soldier, the king, and the peasant Are working together in one, Till our dream shall become their present,… Read More ›
Being a teenager is never easy or not confusing, unless you’re one of the cool kids who is popular and pampered. Most of us were not one of the cool kids in high school; we were the bookworms, the science… Read More ›
Tales of mistaken identity are a feeding ground for all genres in cinema. There’s action (Galaxy Quest), comedy (The Big Lebowski), horror (Tucker and Dale vs. Evil), thriller (Lucky Number Slevin), and drama (El Mariachi) — and these are just… Read More ›
X, Pearl, and MaXXXine together form one of the most distinctive and ambitious horror trilogies of the modern era — films that dared to bring intelligence, style, and emotional heft back to a genre that had been drowning in soulless jump scares. These… Read More ›
The year is 2025 and corporations own everything including the United States government. The populace does their best to survive on the scraps provided by their network masters, but a massive class divide has arisen, creating strife and distrust amongst… Read More ›
“Take the rod; and you and your brother Aaron assemble the congregation and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it may yield its water. You shall thus bring forth water for them out of the rock and let… Read More ›
Kirk Douglas (Spartacus) saw a production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and set about trying to adapt it for film, however, it took so long in pre-production that not only did Kirk have to move on from the… Read More ›
It’s 2025 and comedian/actor Jim Carrey is a staple of pop culture. His take on the Grinch gets played by audiences looking to kick off the festive season (for those who celebrate) each winter; his version of Doctor Robotnik introduced… Read More ›