One of America’s most revered American filmmakers, Richard Linklater returns with “Where’d You Go, Bernadette?”. Before then, here’s our guide to his filmography, from his experimental efforts like Slacker, to mainstream crowdpleasers like School of Rock.
Kay Cannon’s directorial debut Blockers is an unabashedly raunchy comedy with its heart in all the right places, giving the teen sex comedy a nice sprucing up through big laughs, a game cast and a lean script.
Love, Simon may be a cute addition to the romantic comedy genre, but Film Inquiry writer Tessa Bahoosh argues that despite its abundance of charm, the film is more concerned with appealing to straight audiences, rather than the closeted kids who need it.
Based on a real-life and serious disease, Midnight Sun, though with initial potential, is ultimately too heavy-handed and clichéd to be an effective romantic drama.
Failing to bring anything new the second time around, Pacific Rim: Uprising suffers from an identity crisis with little chance to rise up from its cinematic shortfalls to save itself.
Terminal follows two assassins with a sinister mission, a fatally ill teacher, an enigmatic janitor and a waitress with a double life. Murderous consequences unravel as their lives meet at the hands of a criminal mastermind wanting revenge.
We sat down with documentary producers Yvonne Huff Lee and Jason Delane Lee of the Lagralane Group and chatted about their journey into film finance, their favorite past productions, what they have coming up next.
Though with timely themes of inappropriate romance and sexuality, Submission sadly lacks the insight and perspective to become a movie that represents “now.”
It was absolutely inspiring to see so much strong female content at SXSW Conference and Festivals, and Family, the debut feature by Laura Steinel, was no exception.
Despite An Ordinary Man’s ultra slow pace, it contains a superb score, Silberings’s minimalistic story and grand direction, and Kingsley and Hilmar’s respective tour-de-forces, sharpening in tuning slowly towards a gripping climax.
In First Reformed, a former military chaplain is wracked by grief over the death of his son. Mary is a member of his church whose husband, a radical environmentalist, commits suicide, setting the plot in motion.
The Coming-of-Age film typically follows the story of confused, lonely and lost teens searching for their own identity as they weave their way through adolescence. In this Beginner’s Guide, we look back at some of the best examples of teen self discovery.