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Review: The Watchers (2024) dir. Ishana Night Shyamalan

Review: The Watchers (2024) dir. Ishana Night Shyamalan

Ishana Night Shyamalan’s The Watchers was one of my most anticipated films of 2024.

Fritz on Fridays: American Guerrilla in the Philippines

Fritz on Fridays: American Guerrilla in the Philippines

Don’t lie: You didn’t know Fritz Lang directed a film set in the Philippines during World War II.

Review: Road to Boston (2023) dir. Kang Je-kyu

Review: Road to Boston (2023) dir. Kang Je-kyu

Road to Boston tells the story of marathoner Suh Yun-bok (Im Si-wan) and his senior coach turned surprise teammate Sohn Kee-chung (Ha Jung-woo) as they compete in the 1947 Boston International Marathon.

Silent Land — Aga Woszczyńska

Silent Land — Aga Woszczyńska

Silent Land bores by reveling too much in its own insincere cleverness, even if Woszczyńska and her filmmaking team show promise as visual thinkers.

The Sales Girl — Sengedorj Janchivdorj

The Sales Girl — Sengedorj Janchivdorj

“The thing in the corner is a vagina tightener."

Review: Pandemonium (2023) dir. Quarxx

Review: Pandemonium (2023) dir. Quarxx

The first 20 minutes are excellent. And the final ten minutes work well enough. It’s the middle hour or so that just squashes all of the other good ideas.

All We Imagine As Light

All We Imagine As Light

Dirty gem from India bludgeons the beauty standards of both Bollywood and Hollywood, while refreshingly allowing women to find pleasure in sex - Grand Prix winner at the 77th Cannes International Film Festival

Ruminations on A Taxi Driver

Ruminations on A Taxi Driver

Interview: The War Between's Deborah Correa and Ron Yungul

Interview: The War Between's Deborah Correa and Ron Yungul

The director and the writer/exec producer of The War Between, a brand new Civil War drama about two frenemy soldiers from opposing sides, discuss the origins and the challenges of the project.

The Musicality of The Beast

The Musicality of The Beast

Jeanne du Barry — Maïwenn

Jeanne du Barry — Maïwenn

After acknowledging all of these insurmountable asterisks ... one can admit that Jeanne du Barry still succeeds in many respects.

Interview: Rebel Moon VFX Supervisor Marcus Taormina

Interview: Rebel Moon VFX Supervisor Marcus Taormina

Enjoy this glimpse into the creation of Rebel Moon.

The Roundup: Punishment — Heo Myeong-haeng

The Roundup: Punishment — Heo Myeong-haeng

The copaganda finally outruns the action choreography.

REVIEW: The Brazen (2023) dir. Aik Karapetian

REVIEW: The Brazen (2023) dir. Aik Karapetian

Creepy-crawlies

Review: Crimson Snout (2023) dir. Luu Thanh Luan

Review: Crimson Snout (2023) dir. Luu Thanh Luan

A perplexing quasi-pro-vegan horror film about a crazed demon dog.

GO TO: Train to Busan (2016) dir. Yeon Sang-ho

GO TO: Train to Busan (2016) dir. Yeon Sang-ho

Among the Korean Wave's heavyweights.

REVIEW: Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver (2024) dir. Zack Snyder

REVIEW: Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver (2024) dir. Zack Snyder

Love sometimes demands such a heavy burden of self-sacrifice that one can even call the outpouring of that love violent.

The Three Musketeers: Part II – Milady — Martin Bourboulon

The Three Musketeers: Part II – Milady — Martin Bourboulon

A specter is haunting cinema — that of commercial modernity.

Sweet Dreams — Ena Sendijarevic

Sweet Dreams — Ena Sendijarevic

A pregnant woman nearing delivery self-pleasures by rubbing her privates against a bedpost.

Housekeeping for Beginners — Goran Stolevski

Housekeeping for Beginners — Goran Stolevski

Although Goran Stolevski’s third film only features one gay sex scene and next to no same-sex romantic intimacy, Housekeeping for Beginners has a claim as one of the queerest films of the 2020s so far. That his first two films, You Won’t Be Alone and Of An Age,

Netflix's 'Ripley' — Caravaggio, queer glances, and pictorial piazzas

Netflix's 'Ripley' — Caravaggio, queer glances, and pictorial piazzas

Patricia Highsmith's confounding Tom Ripley is no stranger to screen adaptations. The mysterious and perhaps repressed bisexual con man has been front and center of several interpretations. From the great French actor Alain Delon's libertine Tom in 1960's "High Noon" to Matt

Review: Neandria (2023) dir. Reha Erdem

Review: Neandria (2023) dir. Reha Erdem

Turkish writer-director Reha Erdem isn’t a name many North American cineastes will recognize. Even those familiar with Turkish cinema would be forgiven for not having Erdem on their new release radar. That doesn’t stop Erdem with each new film from declaring his own relevance to the larger project

Fritz on Fridays: Hangmen Also Die!

Fritz on Fridays: Hangmen Also Die!

Fritz Lang and Bertolt Brecht were a match designed by the gods of cinema even if the apocalyptic circumstances uniting them were nothing short of godless.

Review: Mai (2024) dir. Trấn Thành

Review: Mai (2024) dir. Trấn Thành

Vietnam’s box office appears to be one of the fastest growing audiences in Southeast Asia. Almost every year the country produces a new all-time box-office regent and the country’s newly minted highest-grossing film of all time, Mai, has also become Vietnam’s greatest success abroad. Director Trấn Thành

Buff Review: Infested (2023) dir. Sébastien Vaniček

Buff Review: Infested (2023) dir. Sébastien Vaniček

We don’t have enough spider movies. For how widespread arachnophobia is, there is a relative dearth of actually watchable spider horror. Beginning as early as 1955’s Tarantula, the few spider films we get center jumbo-sized arachnids — the sort you’re very unlikely to ever encounter in your bathroom.