Eva Victor’s directorial debut, Sorry, Baby, tells the story of Agnes, a literature professor. Played by Victor, Agnes lives in a New England town and works at a small [...]
The Rip is the latest film to explore what is fast becoming a stronghold in the American popular consciousness: the suburban trap house. Written and directed by Joe Carnahan, [...]
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is the second film in the new trilogy imagining the aftermath of the Rage virus, written once again by Alex Garland but directed by Nia [...]
If I had to condense my taste in film to one mantra it would be this – there is a distinction between seriousness and profundity. Just because a film is unremittingly, [...]
Dan Trachtenberg is the Steve Miner of our time. Both directors have a speciality for taking franchises and inflecting them in new, eccentric directions. Steve Miner worked [...]
Over the last few years there’s been a wave of horror films that explore a nonhuman, human-adjacent or otherwise partial perspective to build a dispersed sense of [...]
Highest 2 Lowest is Spike Lee’s adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, which was itself an adaptation of Ed McBain’s novel King’s Ransom, set in a fictional [...]
Warfare is, in some ways, quite an improbable collaboration. On the one hand, we have Ray Mendoza, a veteran of the Iraq War who had never shot a film before. On the other [...]
Based on the bestselling novel by Freida McFadden and directed expertly by Paul Feig, The Housemaid is a promising sign for the multiplex – a return to what was once called [...]
Mary Bronstein’s second film, and her first in seventeen years, following 2008’s Yeast, is a vision of parenthood, especially motherhood, as a fugue state, a fever dream [...]