2010s

TOMMASO: Just Going Through the Movements
TOMMASO: Just Going Through The Movements

The idea seemed like the perfect match up. Unfortunately, Tommaso does not live up to the expectation.

NFMLA Monthly Film Festival June 2020: Asian Cinema Shorts Part 2
NFMLA Monthly Film Festival June 2020: Asian Cinema Shorts Part 2

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles brings its NFMLA Monthly Film Festival online June 5 to 7. We cover 5 more of the short films in the Asian Cinema program.

KATE NASH: UNDERESTIMATE THE GIRL: An Artist Takes Control of Her Future
KATE NASH: UNDERESTIMATE THE GIRL: An Artist Takes Control of Her Future

The buoyant mood of Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl makes the documentary a joyous, inspirational ninety minutes.

BANANA SPLIT: Friendship Is the New Romance in This Hilarious & Sweet High School Comedy
BANANA SPLIT: Friendship Is the New Romance in This Hilarious & Sweet High School Comedy

This hilarious and poignant high school comedy is the perfect anecdote to soothe those quarantine woes and celebrate the arrival of summer.

Queerly Ever After #27: THE ACCOMPANIST (2019)
Queerly Ever After #27: THE ACCOMPANIST (2019)

There is so much going on in The Accompanist that none of the elements ever really come together to form a cohesive story.

GHOST TOWN ANTHOLOGY: A Movie about Unearthing Buried Secrets
GHOST TOWN ANTHOLOGY: A Movie About Unearthing Buried Secrets

Now available on Mubi, Ghost Town Anthology evokes the presence of a forgotten and bedeviled past buried underneath it.

NETFLIX VS. THE WORLD: FROM DVDS BY MAIL TO STREAMING EMPIRE
NETFLIX VS. THE WORLD: From DVDs By Mail To Streaming Empire

In  Shawn Cauthen’s Netflix vs. the World, we witness the rise of Netflix from a fledgling startup to a producer of original content that wins Academy Awards.

JADDOLAND: The Liminal Echoes Of The Displaced Soul
JADDOLAND: The Liminal Echoes Of The Displaced Soul

Jaddoland’s depiction of immigant life through imagery and meditations will echo throurh ghte hearts and minds of its audience.

BORIS AND THE BOMB: …Is A Bomb
BORIS AND THE BOMB:…Is A Bomb

Boris And The Bomb not only tries to be bigger than the sum of its parts but also seems to have a lot of heart put into it, yet it never reaches the heights envisioned by its creators.

CRSHD: Floundering Narrative Fails to Entice in College Comedy
CRSHD: Floundering Narrative Fails To Entice In College Comedy

While a narrative focusing on young women exploring their sexuality without judgment would usually be greeted with enthusiasm, CRSHD treads well-worn stereotypes.

MARTIN EDEN: Voyaging Through Politics, Space & Time
MARTIN EDEN: Voyaging Through Politics, Space & Time

Despite Martin Eden being only two hours, it is so densely packed with a cosmos’s volume of emotion and life, that it is as epic as any Sergio Leone or David Lean film.

CLOSENESS: Kantemir Balagov’s Controversial Debut
CLOSENESS: Kantemir Balagov’s Controversial Debut

Closeness is an intriguing debut film that is marred by one incredibly bad choice on the part of its director.

Berlinale 2020: SUK SUK
Berlinale 2020: SUK SUK

As Hong Kong cinema continues to evolve, a film like Suk Suk is both important and necessary in reshaping the industry’s overall identity.

Queerly Ever After #26: GOD'S OWN COUNTRY (2017)
Queerly Ever After #26: GOD’S OWN COUNTRY (2017)

Our latest in the Queerly After Series is about 2017’s God’s Own Country.

KILLING EVE (S3E6) "End Of Game": Everyone Is Off Their Games
KILLING EVE (S3E6) “End Of Game”: Everyone Is Off Their Games

With only two episodes left, and with everyone off their games, everything could turn into fireworks by the end of this season of Killing Eve.