In Primal, Nicolas Cage plays a big game hunter for zoos and private collectors. On his ship back to the U.S., a war criminal escapes from his cell and releases the animals on board.
It is in this moment of burning worlds and a fading hope in humanity that cinema offers its hand. When the most empathetic of mediums loses its patience, it may be time to watch and listen.
Invisibility. Camouflage. They are plot devices in many science fiction and fantasy stories, but do we have anything really like it in real life? How does it work?
Harpoon never gets deep enough to attain full authenticity, but it’s still a fittingly tense and amusingly deranged romp, poking fun at how low these people are drowning into moral abyss.
It would be unsurprising to see Making Waves used for educational purposes in film sound classes for years to come, but even your average film buff will enjoy it.
As much as Yang Chao’s film Crosscurrent has the look of a beautiful mystery, its quietness remains quiet and unnoticed and doesn’t manage to lead anywhere.
In this week’s Queerly Ever After, Amanda Jane Stern considers the 1997 film All Over Me, a coming-of-age story about the relationship between two girls.