CannibalBy Patrick Larkin Director Manuel Martín Cuenca’s Cannibal won the 2013 Goya Award (the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars) for best cinematography. It’s not hard to see why. Pau Esteve Birba’s cinematography...
FKA twigs – LP1By Max Freedman Is FKA twigs human, or is she dancer? “I can’t recognize me”, she sighs at the end of “Video Girl”, a song that expresses her disdain towards sometimes being...
Miss ViolenceBy Dustin Jansick The term Greek New Wave (sometimes called Weird Wave) has been floating around ever since Giorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth screened at Cannes in 2009. The film instantly won over critics...
At the Devil’s DoorBy Michael Nazarewycz The long road between the small screen and the silver screen is littered with the corpses of wonderfully talented individuals who knew nothing but success when beamed into millions...
Palo AltoBy Bernard Boo Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto wades through the malaise of modern teen life as well as any movie has in years, reminding us of how dirty and distressing high school life can truly...
Alive InsideBy Michael Nazarewycz If you listen to enough random music on the radio or the internet, you are likely to hear a song you haven’t heard in a long time. The opening...
Rich HillBy C.J. Prince “We’re not trash. We’re good people.” These are some of the first words we hear in Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo’s Rich Hill. The film, a Grand...
Guardians of the GalaxyBy Bernard Boo Most people–hell, most comic book readers–have little to no knowledge of the Guardians of the Galaxy, a team of misfit, cosmic Marvel superheroes introduced in print in 1969. James...
A Five Star LifeBy Pavi Ramani I don’t subscribe to the notion that a film must have a destination – that it must arrive at a conclusion – but I do believe that some form...
Child of GodBy Dustin Jansick James Franco continues his efforts of adapting classic literature into films, first with William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and now Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God. This is not...
Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine StoryBy Bernard Boo First-time filmmaker Michael Lee Nirenberg interviews his father, Bill Nirenberg, in his new documentary, but fuzzy sentimentality and paternal adoration plays little to no part in their on-camera conversation....
Magic in the MoonlightBy Bernard Boo Woody Allen returns to his touristic tendencies in Magic in the Moonlight a film set in the gorgeous natural surroundings of the south of France circa 1928. This is a decidedly light...
LucyBy Bernard Boo In a film like Lucy, Luc Besson’s new existential action flick starring Scarlett Johansson, the stakes are everything. High stakes, forged through effective storytelling, can imbue even the sleepiest action...
A Master BuilderBy C.J. Prince At the start of A Master Builder, successful architect Halvard Solness (Wallace Shawn) is on his death bed. He looks weak, until a conversation with fellow architect Knut (André...
