Fantastic Beasts is a mostly satisfactory return to the world of Harry Potter, though it also suffers from confused and muddled plot-lines.
Dane DeHaan’s character will get more than he bargained for at the medical castle of A Cure For Wellness, and whether that causes a slick descent or a more methodical breakdown, the path does look intriguingly striking.
In Our “Nominated Film You May Have Missed”, we reflect on films that received Oscar nominations in the past, but have been forgotten, or little seen. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a classic, delving into themes of patriotism, government corruption, and the power of democracy.
Graduation, Mungiu’s fourth film as director, is yet another example of how he masterfully weaves an intimate character drama into an intelligent commentary on injustices in Romanian society.
Frank & Lola is the upcoming feature debut of Matthew Ross, starring Michael Shannon & Imogen Poots in a “psychosexual noir love story”.
Recall the last villainess you saw on screen. Did her power come at the price of her own womanhood? Was she an unpleasant outcast in a world brimmed with nice, agreeable women? I’d bet your answer to either of these questions might be yes.
Moonfaze Feminist Film Festival takes place on December 1 in LA . We caught up with Premstar Santana, founder and director of the festival.
Though Moonlight employs a stylistic, arthouse approach as opposed to a traditional narrative, it is nonetheless an important one to watch for people of all walks of life.
Opening this week: Things to Come; The Eyes of my Mother; Man Down; Incarnate; SiREN; Anonymous; Pet; Run the Tide; Pocket Listing. We’ve compiled the info & trailers!
In the latest of our cinematic ads series, here we describe the effectiveness of advertisements in the cinema for different types of films.
Cents is a film about a teenager attempting to find her identity; though not without its shortcomings, it is a refreshing and admirable film.
Whether the real-life zookeeper’s wife let her son nap with lion cubs is questionable, the menagerie of The Zookeeper’s Wife should make for lots of unusual encounters as the characters hide from and scheme against the Nazi regime.
Our relationship with extraterrestrials has been a bumpy ride to say the least, but why is Hollywood so fascinated with them? Who has contributed to this ever-changing portrayal of extraterrestrials? And what are the many faces of alien life?
Army of One could have been a lot of different things, with plenty of room to shock and titillate fans of Larry Charles’ usual propensity for visceral subversions of cultural norms. Instead, the movie falls flat as a conservative piece of biographical fiction.
I Am Not Madame Bovary is highly critical of Chinese bureaucracy, both using the plot to highlight its inability to care about anything other than their job position, as well as poking fun at the workings of officialdom with the conversations between the officials themselves.