Black Life Matters: Killer of Sheep Review
Her body language, the deep darkness, the shot, the music, says it all: what are we supposed to be doing in here?
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Dunkirk: Depth to the Games
The film is a study in learning from old masters as much as it is in bringing an old story to a new audience.
More Branding: An Inconvenient Sequel
There’s no beating around the Bush with regards to how the 2000 election results impacted our present climate situation.
Retrospective Review: CBS’s The Man Upstairs (1992)
An eccentric woman with moralistic values befriends a man who has found himself on the wrong side of the law...
Big Ideas – Alien: Covenant
Covenant does a bit more than just lay out intertextual reference to spice up a familiar narrative.
Everyday Noir: Old Stone
For all the faults of his screenplay, Johnny Ma has a strong hand for visual storytelling.
Tower: A Blind Eye Towards Evil
Tower glows with the kind of heroism that represents the best qualities of humanity in spite of its worst.
A Nightmare in Tune with the American Dream: The Founder
Somewhere near its core, underneath the corporate-friendly narrative and the neon-tinged nostalgia, The Founder is a nightmare to the tune of the American Dream.
A Bold Look: Robert Kenner’s Command and Control
Command and Control gives a mostly eyewitness account of an otherwise ordinary workplace accident at a nuclear warhead storage facility that could have led to full-scale devastation in the American South.
25 Years After: Die Hard, A Degenerative Retrospective
John McTiernan’s Die Hard opened twenty-five years ago to a mixed reception, receiving both popular praise and critical loathing.
DVD Review: Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a subtle meditation on art and the price it exacts from those who would seek its peaks, in the fascinating context of the sushi world.
Prometheus and the Complexities of Interpretivism
The critical reception for Prometheus has stimulated an interesting and extended discussions regarding the film’s synthesis of religion, science, and society.
Film Review: Sergei Loznitsa’s My Joy
This Ukrainian film set in Russia and directed by documentary filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa offers no reason or explanation for why the boring, the tragic, the senseless and the funny happen in our daily lives.
Film Review: Square Grouper
Square Grouper is pretty even-handed in its telling of the exploits of a Florida religious group who funded their faith by moving piles and piles of its main sacrament.
Film Book Review: Every Night the Trees Disappear: Werner Herzog and the Making of “Heart of Glass” by Alan Greenberg
Every Night the Trees Disappear: Werner Herzog and the Making of “Heart of Glass” gives a portrait of an artist even more enigmatic and frantically creative than his films make him seem.