Upon exiting the press screening for the digital restoration of Andrei Tarkovsky‘s Andrei Rublev, I overheard a couple in front ...
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At first glance, it was pretty easy to think of Stranger Things when Summer of ‘84 appeared on the screen. The ...
Peppermint Soda (Diabolo Menthe) is more than just a typical coming of age film, it’s a film that highlights the vicissitudes ...
Crystal Moselle‘s best known film up until this point is probably The Wolfpack, the stranger than fiction documentary about the ...
An interview with Savannah Magruder on her latest short film Debbie Does Dilators.
Far too often women’s health issues, ...
Believe it or not, when Hocus Pocus was first released in 1993 (the year I was born?!) it was panned across the board by its critics. ...
Baba Beaton, Wanda Ballie-Hamilton and Lady Bridget Poulett photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1930, © The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive ...
Following in the candid footsteps of Amy and What Happened, Miss Simone?,Whitney is the latest documentary about a troubled star—but ...
It takes a lot to make me jump. Horror has been my go to genre for distraction since I was thirteen, but when I look back on it, maybe ...
It’s been four days since I saw the sneak preview screening of Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher’s feature-length documentary ...
French filmmaker, Coralie Fargeat’s debut feature Revenge makes Kill Bill look PG. Somehow, amidst the terrifyingly gruesome scenes ...
27: Gone Too Soon, the latest documentary to focus on the 27 Club, is shallow, exploitative and offensive. The first clue this film is ...
When I think of French film, I think of black and white, of jump cuts and stark symbolism in the lighting and framing of the shot. But ...
Nico, 1988 opens with an older woman getting ready for her morning in a quaint beach house off the coast of Ibiza. I knew I was ...
The plot of Scorsese’s After Hours consists almost entirely of a guy just trying to make it back home one night in New York City. I ...
It’s spring. Love and pollen are in the air and everyone is emerging from their dark and cold hibernation dens.
Even better, you ...
“They were wearing chaos, they were being chaos.”
The Slits weren’t punk. They weren’t musicians. They refused to let genres ...
Lucrecia Martel’s debut Film La Cienega (also known as The Swamp) begins with an invasion of sights and sounds. As the opening ...
So I guess a few weeks ago now I had a semi public meltdown which I used this increasingly bizarre ...
The problem with this epic documentary is that it takes six hours to reveal the insanely explosive conclusion, so let me just put it ...
I recently spent a weekend afternoon crying after I made a series of bad decisions that though I knew they were going to blow up in ...
Film column by Tamim Alnuweiri.
You know I forget that people read the shit that I put on the internet but every once in a while ...
I walked out of The Disaster Artist disappointed. While I’ve been a fan of The Room for years—I’ve even met Tommy Wiseau himself ...
With the awards season in full bloom, we thought it only proper to give praise to some of our favorite films left off the nomination ...
Quad Cinema has an impressive lineup of experimental animation programs for the coming weekend, called “Independent Frames: American ...
I have no idea why everyone’s getting hot and bothered by this little English manners romance. Unlike the mustached guy next to me, ...
When did my memory get so bad? In college it was actually a running “””joke””” among my friends ...
I want the right of life,
of the leopard at the spring, of the seed splitting open-
I want the right of the first ...
Queer folk have a tendency to bestow idol-hood on personas with bombastic glamour who are prone to antics; characters living out loud ...
You know what goes well with the holiday season? Cheese. Any kind: cheese balls, pub cheese, a big ol’ charcuterie and cheese board ...
Review by Sean Kennerly.
Nothing brings a room full of strangers together like a psychotic misanthrope. As I sat alone in the third ...
Film column by Tamim Alnuweiri.
Honestly sometimes this column feels like a postcard I’m writing to an abyss in the Internet ...
Minutes into Lady Bird and the rapid-fire change of scenario and location pulls you into the curiously innocent world of the 2002 ...
Film column by Tamim Alnuweiri.
Halloween aka THE PURGE is coming up. I never fully “got” Halloween (and still ...
Film column by Tamim Alnuweiri.
Most summers I can trace with some certainty—I spent a lot of time at Double Down Saloon or I ...
Mulholland Drive is a movie that I’m glad I waited to watch in theaters. It always loomed there on Netflix, temptingly accessible ...
The word fashion I don’t like because fashion means something that is over in six months – Dries Van Noten
Dries Van Noten is a ...
I got sucked into a whole on YouTube trying to find a video of a complete Richard Hell & the Voidoids performance at CBGB. ...
L’important c’est d’aimer is the story of an average person living outside the mainstream and the melodrama of ...
Ahhh 2007. The year we all had flip phones, and Kim Kardashian was still Paris Hilton’s assistant. The moving image I most ...
I remember going to see Avatar with my family on New Years Eve (I was really cool in high school!) and thinking what the fuck? ...
I love explaining the premise of The Wackness: Josh Peck exchanges weed for therapy sessions with Ben Kingsley. It really is as good ...
A few weeks ago I watched the Trainspotting sequel which left me with a few thoughts. First, out of every movie from the ...
I haven’t read Sartre’s No Exit since 11th grade when I discovered Hemingway and decided that existentialism was the most profound ...
#BRANDSTORMERS, a new web series somewhere between an all-out war on and a loving embrace of start-up visionaries & brand ...
In theory, a horror movie may seem like a stretch for Jordan Peele but with Get Out he’s brilliantly crafted a poignant social ...
A group of high schoolers avoid a catastrophic death by getting kicked off a plane when one has a vision of the plane exploding just ...
In the horror genre, burgeoning directors & big league names alike tamper with a format that allows for crisp, original shorts to ...
Oh man. Time for some unnecessary and bizarre insights into my psyche. When I was a child, I spent a lot of time visiting my ...
I spent a lot of time with my grandparents growing up, and on both sides there was a general adoration of scary movies. One ...