In the wake of a blossoming society that tells the Donald Sterlings of yesteryear that mainstream bigotry is indeed a thing of the past, a trip...
Photo Credit: Universal Pictures and Focus Features To say that it’s been hard to escape any mention of EL James’ juggernaut hit 50 Shades of Grey...
In 2005 Andrew Bujalski’s “Mutual Appreciation,” and Jay and Mark Duplass’ “Puffy Chair” initiated a string of movies that embodied elements which would later become the...
What are we to make of events that reach us in the form of a video clip of a police shooting that is sandwiched by both...
Lars von Trier, the “enfant terrible” of contemporary cinema, has grown a reputation for putting his female protagonists in harms way. Half of von Trier’s films...
Through the dark and damp corridor she sneaks away, fearing and shivering, sweating and crying. Something is hunting her, a creature that knows how to move underground,...
I learned about the existence of Die Welle one morning in high school as I casually looked over the 2008 Sundance Film Festival catalogue, only slightly bitter that...
There are many ways to look at films, and to have conversations about what we as filmmakers do and ought to do. The conversation is usually...
well the phrase that signals the beginning of the end: “They’ve become self-aware.” Now I’m no John Connor, but I am here to warn you that...
The portrayal of people with disabilities in cinema has a surprisingly long and sordid story. One of the earliest, and in my mind the most interesting,...
