by Kevin Allen | Dec 20, 2022
The silent era of Hollywood has never looked more like a glorious mess than it does in Damien Chazelle’s star-studded period epic. Damien Chazelle has been one of Hollywood’s favorite young filmmaking auteurs since winning the Best Director Oscar in 2017, and...
by Kevin Allen | Dec 13, 2022
The leader of a girl gang learns the horrifying truth about her environment in this genre-blending coming-of-age allegory from Brazil. Brazil is a country whose contributions to cinema have had sporadic gains in reaching American audiences over the decades,...
by Kevin Allen | Dec 7, 2022
Academy Award winner Olivia Colman manages the historic Empire Theatre during the rise of Margaret Thatcher in the newest film from Sam Mendes. Ever since making his directorial feature debut with American Beauty in 1999, Sam Mendes has established himself as a...
by Kevin Allen | Nov 18, 2022
Guillermo del Toro adapts Carlo Collodi’s classic tale about the wooden boy come to life with impeccable humanity in his newest film for Netflix. Stop motion animation has had a bit of a resurgence in this calendar year, from Phil Tippett’s macabre masterpiece...
by Kevin Allen | Nov 4, 2022
The Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are but a couple bands probed about their start in the Big Apple in this new music documentary from Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern. Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace are two documentarians who first broke into the independent film...
