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Café owner Kato (Kazunari Tosa) discovers that the computer monitor in his upstairs apartment sees two minutes into the future, while the...

Radu Jude often is a filmmaker that has no interest in masking his anger and frustrations with nuance and delicately crafted metaphors...

Right now, I feel that we are in a golden age of documentary filmmaking. Not only are filmmakers consistently finding interesting new...

Originally titled Soggy Bottom, Licorice Pizza’s name change lends itself to the nostalgic warmth its title brings to writer/director...

Delicate isn’t a word one would ever describe the Western genre. It’s a uniquely American genre that would prioritize and idolize the...

“Oscar-winner” this and “Oscar-nominee” that, the trailers for House of Gucci are shameless in their Oscar-baiting, with its campaign...

This year we have had a number of stage plays and musicals making their leap to the big screen. But the two that are notably significant...

War is hell. But before Vietnam, most films wouldn’t really portray it as a complete and true vision of hell – a place where redemption...

Rebecca Hall is an actress of considerable talent, someone who has consistently held scenes and films together with ease (this year's The...

Creativity ebbs and flows differently from person to person. For some people, it comes so easily. For others, like myself, it’s an...

The Trip, or the original Norwegian title of I Onde Dager (direct translation meaning “In Bad Days"), is a black comedy that follows a...

There have been loads of wonderfully strange, visceral films that have come crawling out from their dens this year. Noticeably odd flicks...

Writing anything about Titane is a challenge in itself. If you go over various reviews and analyses popping up over the internet, so many...

For many years, whether intentional or not, film and TV have painted the trans community in overwhelmingly negative ways. Whether they...

Man’s connection with nature in the modern world is constantly twisting and turning as it either brings us closer to or further away from...

Let’s face it, it’s hard not to talk about Kazakhstan without bringing up the giant elephant in the room as it fumbles and breaks...

The Sopranos changed the way we watch and make TV. It almost singlehandedly changed the game for the medium, shaping HBO into what it is...

It’s been quite the year for brothers Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks. An in-depth doccie on their discography was made by none other than...

John and the Hole is another odd entry into the wonderfully varied plethora of coming-of-age stories at our disposal through cinema, TV...

Every time I rewatch The Thing, I think I have it figured out, knowing all the tricks it has up its sleeve as it readies itself to...