Eva Victor’s directorial debut, Sorry, Baby, tells the story of Agnes, a literature professor. Played by Victor, Agnes lives in a New England town and works at a small liberal arts college. We first meet her just after she has received tenure, when an old friend, Lydie, played by Naomi Ackie, comes to stay. As […]
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Mary Bronstein’s second film, and her first in seventeen years, following 2008’s Yeast, is a vision of parenthood, especially motherhood, as a fugue state, a fever dream that collapses and absorbs reality. Rose Byrne plays Linda, mother of a young girl who is never named, played by Delaney Quinn, who suffers from an eating disorder […]
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Stephen King has many registers but one of his most underrated might be described as surreal sentimentality – modern fairy tales that are most vibrant and dynamic when they remain on the cusp of horror but never quite give themselves over to it. While this tonality crops up quite often in his shorter works, it’s […]
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This is a hard film to watch and it needs to be. During the Israeli occupation of Gaza there have been countless war crimes committed against the Palestinian people, this film being focused on the killing of Hind Rajab by the IDF. The film does this by focusing on the call between her and the […]
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David Lynch’s incredible neo-noir mystery Blue Velvet shows the darkness in the underbelly of a small suburban town, then reveals the lightness to be found.
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Written by Matthew Robinson and directed by Gore Verbinski, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die attempts to grapple with our current AI tipping-point. The main character is simply the “Man,” played by Sam Rockwell, who has returned time after time from the future to a Los Angeles diner in an effort to recruit the right […]
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If there are any lessons to be learned from The Drama, it’s that you should avoid playing silly party games like “The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done” before your wedding. If it can’t be avoided, for God’s sake don’t be honest. Pick something way down on your list of awful things that won’t give your […]
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A lonely OB-GYN in a rural Georgian hospital faces allegations of malpractice in Kulumbegashvili’s brutally slow-paced, if quietly devastating, sophomore feature—a Haneke-esque moral inquiry marked by hypnotic long takes and sublime use of film language.
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Whether it’s the Irish, Scots, Canadians, or Australians, former British Empire dominions have long been wary of how the British used their allies during warfare. From the killing of Canadian soldiers at Ypres to the brutal fights of Australians at Gallipoli, many believed the Dominion armies would be the first to attack, resulting in fewer […]
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‘Exploring’ features the filmographies of filmmakers that I’ve largely completed and celebrates them on the week of their birthdays.
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A provincial man who’s trying to find a job stays with his city cousin in Ceylan’s masterful third feature that probes issues of personal stasis and social alienation in contemporary Turkish society, marked by restrained performances that accrue a quiet emotional depth.
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Catalan filmmaker Carla Simon made her name with the tiny, plotless, yet moving family dramas Summer 1993 and Alcarras. Now, with Romeria, she expands her ambitions into a magical realist mystery but, sadly, the leap has not been made gracefully. A few strikingly beautiful moments aside, Romeria is a frustratingly dull and repetitive film, taking […]
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Rohmer’s provocative final entry from his ‘Six Moral Tales’ calls attention to the temptation of extramarital affairs, as a man in a happy marriage contemplates putting his immoral theoretical thoughts into practice.
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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy offers an interesting take on the Egyptology horror genre. It’s perhaps best described as being about two very different families, one American, one Egyptian. We spend most of the film with the American family, the Cannons, who are living in Cairo, and whose life is thrown into chaos when their daughter […]
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COUNTDOWN ticks thru 101 bland minutes of science-fiction-minus monsters, a moon expedition story from 1967 (Brit release date) that opened in the US in ’68. While critics were intrigued and crowds got excited by Planet Of The Apes and were awestruck and/or baffled by 2001: A Space Odyssey, they weren’t enraptured by this realistic, down-to-Earth procedural […]
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In “Splitsville,” Carey, facing divorce, seeks comfort in his friends Julie and Paul, leading to chaos through an ‘open relationship’ experiment. The film blends humor with profound insights on love and heartbreak, showcasing characters in absurd yet relatable situations. Directed by Michael Angelo Covino, it highlights the irrationality of human instincts.
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“Funny how secrets travel…” The title page on a draft of the Lost Highway screenplay reads: “A 21st Century Horror Noir. A Graphic Investigation Into Parallel Identity Crises. A World Where Time Is Dangerously Out Of Control. A Terrifying Ride Down The Lost Highway.” When I saw Lost Highway for the first time in my […]
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“Silencio.” Los Angeles, Hollywood California, the City of Angels, whatever you want to call it is an interesting place. The great filmmaker David Lynch (RIP) had this to say about Hollywood: “I love Hollywood. I love the dream of it.” He also said that: “When you’re there in LA, on some nights… you can feel […]
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Year: 2026 Runtime: 105 minutes Directors: Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson Writers: Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson, Ursula Wills (based on a short story by) Actors: Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Peter Dinklage, Elizabeth Debicki, Marli Siu, Nabhaan Rizwan By Rosa Parra Directed by Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer, “Wicker”(2026) features Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, […]
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For my fifth film of the London Film Festival, I decided to go down the American independent movie route. Looking at the schedule, the general plot of Train Dreams stood out to me as something that could be interesting, but what clinched it as a film that I would watch at the festival is the […]
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