Now, More Than Ever: The Fight
By Elias Savada. Though filmed pre-pandemic, there is a shared sense of heroics here, be they legal or medical professions engaging an overwhelming enemy.” For most of you, The Fight starts off with […]
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Debuting with the Visceral: Nick Rowland’s The Shadow of Violence
By Ali Moosavi. Rowland and his cinematographer Piers McGrail provide some respite from the claustrophobic and washed-out colour scenes of violence….” It is something of a dichotomy that such a beautiful, picturesque […]
A Passionless Pageant: Bruno Dumont’s Joan of Arc (2019)
By Jeremy Carr. A film more arduous and cumbersome than it is deferential and imaginative.” Aside from Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 paragon, The Passion of Joan of Arc, the story of the […]
Portrait of a Singular Artist – Chantal Akerman Retrospective Handbook
A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. If the likes of Kubrick or Bergman have more or less been deified, surely she belongs in this secular pantheon.” If, like me, The Criterion Collection and Eclipse […]
Wuxia Majesty: King Hu’s The Fate of Lee Khan (Eureka Masters of Cinema)
By Tony Williams. Hu recognizes that victory is not just the end but also rather another tedious part of a successive number of moves leading to the same circular pattern.” King Hu’s &[…]
Sugary Serial: Dwight H. Little’s Bloodstone (Arrow Video)
1988’s Bloodstone comes off as pleasingly old-fashioned – fleeting side-boob excepted.” By Rod Lott. After 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark rolled over the competition and into the […]
Airbnb Done Wrong: The Rental
By Elias Savada. It’s another hung-out-to-dry whodunit…in which you never really learn whodunit.” Will The Rental do more damage to the home sharing business than the Covid-[…]
“Genetic Memory of War”: Elem Klimov’s Come and See (Criterion Collection)
The idea,” states Klimov’s brother and collaborator, German Klimov, “was to tell the truth.” By Jeremy Carr. Elem Klimov’s Come and See, an unremitting 1985 opus and one […]
Ghosts of War Gone Awry
If it feels like Final Destination at war, that’s because Bress was a writer on some of those popular films. By Elias Savada. I was hoping the new film from Eric Bress, his […]
Hello, Vietnam: Trinh Dinh Le Minh on Goodbye Mother
By Tom Ue. Trinh Dinh Le Minh’s new film Goodbye Mother tells a seemingly familiar story: Van (Lanh Thanh) returns to his home in Vietnam, having been away in the US for nine […]