Independent wrestling has never been more popular and prevalent than it is now around the world. We start our multi-week look into how wrestling and its fans have changed in …
Annabelle: Creation is a major improvement over its dire, vaporous, laughably bad, but inexplicably profitable cash-in, spin-off predecessor. It’s made with more confidence and visual panache than the first film …
The Korean historical drama A Taxi Driver tries to balance melodrama, social consciousness, and a character study at the same time. Aside from some languid pacing (clocking in at an …
American visual artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel has been a controversial figure in fine art circles for decades now, and Italian director Pappi Corsicato’s fawning, laudatory, and frustratingly vague documentary …
The fantastical, childish Chinese romance Once Upon a Time is a great example of a campy work that takes things far more seriously than it should. One of two adaptations …
Ambitious filmmaker Joshua Z Weinstein certainly didn’t make things easy on himself for his first narrative feature, the religiously tinged family drama Menashe (opening in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal this …
You probably know actor Gil Birmingham as one of those performers with an immediately identifiable face and image. He’s definitely one of those “Oh, it’s that guy” types of character …
Replicating the dated style, tone, and pacing of a mid-90s indie comedy sounds like a recipe for disaster by today’s standards, but for her second feature, Landline, filmmaker Gillian Robespierre …
Brigsby Bear is a lovely film, but it didn’t immediately hit me how beautiful it is until a while after it ended. When this tale of a man coming to …
Oscar winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow has proven herself to be a master of suspense, with most of her films centering around characters trying desperately by any means necessary to survive …