I found a lot to get lost in in Peter Hujar's Day , a film that gets exponentially richer the more times you see it.

  Over the course of three weeks up north and with a few more days using virtual access to some things, I dove deep into the amazing opportu...

 The big kahuna, wherein I recount the joys of the 2023 New York Film Festival and NewFest .  Films included are a lot, and you should just ...

  Since I first saw this one at last fall's New York Film Festival, Enys Men (Uh-NEEZ MANE) has occupied a significant part of my subcon...

 This year's NYFF was a whole new bundle of experiences for me. After last year's fully virtual fest, this year went back to in per...

What all have I done since the last big update? Well... A review of PASSENGERS . A review of SING . A review of LA-LA LAND . ...

One of the neatest experiences I had at this year's New York Film Festival was finding my photography a source of assistance to some col...

Teorema (Italy-Pier Paolo PASOLINI) *** Patrick (Australia-Richard FRANKLIN) ** Zombie Nightmare (Canada-Jack BRAVMAN) 1/2 Min Ye/Tell Me Wh...

Picture it. A pleasantly divey bar in the east village. The personae: John Lichman, Vadim Rizov, Matt Prigge, and me. It was an absolute hon...

Der Baader-Meinhof Complex/The Baader-Meinhof Complex (Germany-Uli EDEL) **** Le Silence de Lorna/Lorna’s Silence (Belgium/France-Jean-Pierr...

Dog lovers who found Marley and Me too sappy and Hotel for Dogs too unrealistic now have their prayers answered. This is a film about how on...

So here are some New York Film Festival flashbacks, when I got to talk to Steven Soderbergh and Mickey Rourke as part of the Festival's...

Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is a primary school teacher in South London possessed of a truly sunny disposition. A firm believer in looking on the ...

In this moody reconstruction of his 1994 wu xia (think Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, or Curse of the Golden Flower) epic, Wong Kar-Wai (In...

For years, the quintessential Angelina Jolie performance was in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow; an interesting but somewhat inert fil...

Here's my handy-dandy overview of the 46th Annual New York Film Festival. As these films receive some form of Nashville (for All The Rag...

CREATURE (d. William MALONE) * 1/2 C'EST DUR D'ETRE AIME PAR DES CONS/IT'S HARD BEING LOVED BY JERKS (d. Daniel LECONTE) *** 1...

In the past few days, I saw the following: IT'S ALIVE 3: ISLAND OF THE ALIVE (d. Larry COHEN) *** AHENDU NDE SAPUKAI (I Hear Your Screa...

I genuinely love it it when my friends become successful. That's not faux-modesty, or in the slightest sarcastic. It makes me incredibly...

NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (d. Fred DEKKER) *** THE ARGENTINE (d. Steven SODERBERGH) ** 1/2 GUERILLA (d. Steven SODERBERGH) *** 1/2