Movies

The Busan International Film Festival is upon us. The South Korean cinematic celebration, which was founded in 1995, arrives with a new wrinkle this year. A few months ago, the Academy Awards announced that winners from a select few...

What’s more human than yearning? Not much, as the prescient British series “Small Prophets” illustrates across its tight six-episode first season.The premise goes like this: Michael Sleep (a sardonic and kind Pearce Quigley) is waiting for his partner Clea...

From the opening moments of director Reed Van Dyk’s “Atonement,” the film subverts tropes and expands what war films (and their harrowing aftermath) can be. Shot on a warm, 16mm film by cinematographer Jon Peter, the film opens with...

From the creatives behind “Killing Eve,” Catherine Zeta-Jones lands on AMC+ with an assassin show that feels like it was Mad Libs-ed into existence.In “Kill Jackie,” Jackie Price (Zeta-Jones) has spent the past 20 years living in luxury,...

This year’s New York Film Festival has, for my money, had one of the strongest festival lineups in ages. Granted, I’ve only been able to sample a handful of titles from the week I spent huddling outside Walter Reade...

Documentarian John Wilson, known for his HBO show How To with John Wilson, is out with his first feature length documentary on what might seem like a rather dense subject: The History of Concrete. Source link

10 NEW TO NETFLIX“Boyhood““The Breadwinner““The End of the Tour““Knock at the Cabin““Oculus““On Chesil Beach““The Room Next Door““The Squid and the Whale““Sundown““Top Gun: Maverick“12 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD“12 Angry Men” (Criterion)People often ask me which classic films they could use to...

Blurring–or rather smudging–the lines between hunter and hunted, predator and prey, exploiter and exploited, director Lance Oppenheim’s “Primetime” derives its deliciously devilish thrills through emphasizing contrast. Whether it is imbuing spiritual weight to the earthiness of its story, oversaturating...