Reviews REVIEW: Harbin (2024) dir. Woo Min-ho The opening foreshadows the scale of the task ahead: to assassinate their colonizer and the Prime Minister of Japan, Itō Hirobumi
Reviews Fritz on Fridays: Man Hunt (1941) What greater thrill could there be than killing the leader of the Third Reich?
Essays Year Ender: Joshua Polanski's Top Ten Films of 2024 In a year darkened by ethnic cleansing, global conflict, and hopeless elections, it’s beautiful that beauty, more than depravity, captivates the minds of our best artists.
Reviews 'The People's Joker' - Queer superhero parody blasts genres and genders Proof that miracles do happen.
Essays The top 10 dirtiest movies of 2024 [Nickel Boys] No mainstream film this year was more uniquely cinematic than RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys.
Reviews Fritz on Fridays: You and Me It’s also a film that takes place from Thanksgiving to Christmas, making it a fitting time to run for this month’s column.
12:12: The Day Interview: 12.12: The Day Director Kim Sung Soo "This is how history continues its ongoing dialogue with the present and reflects why I continue to make films based on history."
No Gods Left Exclusive Black Velvet A genre-defiant drama about depression with a formalist flare, the Latvian-Lithuanian co-production Black Velvet uses some killer editing and funky cinematography to zero in on the strangeness and alienating effect of that unique sadness.
No Gods Left Exclusive Anna LOL Anna may not feel anything, but any audience even half paying attention will. Anna LOL is a remarkable film, and it is one of the best Baltic films I have seen so far this year.
Reviews Heavier Trip — Juuso Laatio & Jukka Vidgren This is likely the kind of thing that Werner Herzog was talking about when he said, “I’m fascinated by trash TV. The poet must not avert his eyes.”
Reviews Contact Lens The contacts work as metaphors for both seeing the world differently and the imprisoning cycle of routine.
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin An Interview with Muneeb Hassan (dir. All The Men I Met But Never Dated) An interview with the queer American-Pakistani director of All The Men I Met But Never Dated.
Reviews Carole & Grey TikTok is going to change the way movies are watched and made. And Carole & Grey, a film conceived of in 45 clips meant for the easily digestible TikTok, is the first film to fully embrace the coming change.
Reviews All The Men I Met But Never Dated Mainstream English language cinema – in both the feature and short film variety – rarely centres on Muslim lives and stories. It’s even rarer to see a queer image of Muslim life uplifted on screen.
Reviews Life & Love A good film about the psychology of desire, enticing and toxic power dynamics, and the messy pain of love.
Reviews The Fix — Kelsey Egan The Fix, a new South African sci-fi film that takes place in a world where breathable air is a thing of Earth’s pastime, opens perfectly.
Bernhard Goetzke Fritz on Fridays: Death’s Domain in ‘Destiny’ with Daniel Gorman A conversation about what sets Destiny apart, the technological advances of the early silent-film years, Langian metanarratives related to destiny and much more.
Reviews Fritz on Fridays: House by the River It’s one of those films so pleasant to look at that it makes you regret the flatly lit junk made today for streaming services.
Essays The 28th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival BIFAN’s embrace of sexuality is one example of its willingness to reach for something extra.
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