by Kevin Allen | Dec 1, 2023
An actress plays with fire by studying the real life deviant she’s booked to portray in the newest drama from Todd Haynes. The best films of writer-director Todd Haynes see him tell stories about dysfunctional suburbia with provocative ideas about...
by Kevin Allen | Nov 3, 2023
A marathon swimmer seeks to become the oldest woman to swim non-stop from Cuba to Florida in Netflix’s newest biopic. If there’s one thing athletes have in common with artists regardless of what sport in which they compete, it’s that the most eccentric...
by Kevin Allen | Oct 6, 2023
Two market analysts have their secret romance put to the test when one of them is promoted over the other in this Sundance smash erotic thriller. Netflix has provided a home for several mid-budget dramas since taking the leap into producing original content in...
by Kevin Allen | Sep 15, 2023
In this alternate reality, ruthless dictator Augusto Pinoche is an aged, bloodsucking vampire with death on his mind in Pablo Larrain’s latest satire. Chilean filmmaking auteur Pablo Larrain has been politically charged throughout his career in cinema; first...
by Kevin Allen | Aug 8, 2023
A young woman yearns for emancipation in the decades between both world wars in this Italian-French co-production from Pietro Marcello. Kino Lorber is a film distributor that prides itself in providing physical copies of silent relics from the medium’s past as well as...
