EXCLUSIVE: The problem with animation is that it just takes so long. So long, in fact, that Liberty Films issued a wrap announcement on their new film in December of 2023, and, when this interview […]
Damon Wise
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Annemarie Jacir’s period drama arrives in the US a month after the Baftas, effectively Britain’s Oscars, where I Swear star Robert Aramayo beat Leonardo DiCaprio and Michael B. Jordan to the Best Actor award. Any […]
A bad break-up leads to a full-blown breakdown and a near-death experience in Oliver Bernsen’s hallucinatory feature debut. Some are calling it a body-horror movie, a label it largely earns because of the director’s predilection […]
After making a film about an obsessive teenage wannabe Hollywood director, Gabriel LaBelle went from The Fabelmans (2022) — in which he starred as a thinly veiled version of its co-writer-director Steven Spielberg — to […]
During a convivial but surprisingly political Oscars, Norway’s Joachim Trier accepted his International Film Oscar for Sentimental Value — a film about a film director (played by Stellan Skarsgård) and his dysfunctional family — while […]
By rights, The Shaggs shouldn’t even be a footnote in the history of rock, pop or jazz. Their first and only real album, Philosophy of the World, came out in 1969 in an edition of […]
Rachel Mason’s excellent 2019 documentary feature Circus of Books took us inside an ordinary mom and pop business with a difference. Starring her own mother and father, Barry and Karen, it told the story of […]
The Shaggs — an all-girl band featuring the three suburban Wiggin sisters from Fremont, New Hampshire — were always an acquired taste. Formed in 1965, they released one album, Philosophy of the World, in 1969, […]
The evils of late-stage capitalism have been addressed at every film festival ever in recent years, but hardly ever in the midnight strand. This ingenious horror-comedy anthology achieves the almost unthinkable; while it delivers the […]
Born in the Transvaal in 1931, Archbishop Desmond Tutu died nearly five years ago, in the last week of 2021, but this documentary arrives as a timely reminder of his legacy and the great strides […]
There’s a very big reminder of “him” — Scotty Landry (Rudy Pankow), killed in a car accident — right at the start of this dreary tearjerker, but Kenna (Maika Monroe) jumps out of her ride, […]