While drone warfare may play a central role in the contemporary military landscape, it’s proved remarkably resistant to representation within anything resembling a [...]
Alone in the Dark tends to get less attention than most of the other films to come out of the early 80s slasher craze. In part, that’s because it doesn’t quite have the [...]
From a distance, Jacques Audiard’s Palme d’Or-winning film looks like social realism. For one thing, it’s a film about immigration – in this case, from Sri Lanka to [...]
Sometimes the best horror films seem to elude the classification of horror altogether, or at least make you question exactly what it is that distinguishes horror from [...]
I almost didn’t see The Daughter, Simon Stone’s first feature as film director after a long stint at the Belvoir. From a distance, it looked like exactly the kind of [...]
Every year at the Cannes Film Festival there are a handful of French titles that seem to get less press and less distribution than the rest of the lineup. While there are [...]
Although Agatha Christie is famous the world over for Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, her most adapted work is And Then There Were None, originally released under the rather [...]
The premise of My Dinner With Andre is disarmingly simple: a pair of old friends meet at a restaurant in New York and spend the evening talking. With the exception of a very [...]
Although Abel Ferrara had released one or two features prior to Ms. 45, this rape-and-revenge extravaganza really feels like his first sustained transition from adult to [...]
Over the last couple of years, horror has become more and more prominent as a television genre. From the increasing critical acclaim of anthologies like American Horror Story [...]