Both of Richard Linklater’s films released in 2025 deal with critical inception points in 20th century culture. Nouvelle Vague is a period piece about the filming of [...]
Chan Park-Wook’s latest film is a direct adaptation of Costa-Gavras’ 2005 thriller The Ax, which revolves around a paper mill worker who is laid off from his job and then [...]
In the midst of Trump’s America, Hollywood has rediscovered the dystopian power of Stephen King’s Bachman novels. While King has used the Bachman pseudonym sporadically [...]
Marty Supreme is a tribute to the movie star – not as a figment of the past but as a vital and vibrant part of our future. In the face of Last Movie Star films like F1, [...]
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 [...]