Kate Hallett and Herman Tømmeraas star in writer/director Emma Higgins’ completely unhinged, uniquely stylish, and intense thriller.
Imprint Films brings a Shaw Brothers double feature filled with sex and swordplay.
Perhaps the most cozy short film on the festival circuit this year, My Knitting Circle puts on the kettle for a cup of tea and surveys the fibrous wares and spinning equipment of Itsy-Bitsy Yarn Store. A small group of friends gather to make clothes, tell stories, share laughs, and bathe in the short-days of limited natural light from the shops big windows. Their hands move linear fabric across smooth needles with intention and grace. While I personally do not knit or crochet, in the same way I do not gamble or smoke, on screen, the craft (surprisingly) provides a similar tactile energy and visual rhythms as those more sinful activities so often take up space on the big screen. Precise, but not too showy,…
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A slice of weird, and fingers-crossed wonderful, for you today. This Friday, the web series Art Show! With Captain Skinner, launches on YouTube, and we thought you should know. At first glance it looks a little bit like the set up of Mystery Science Theater 3000, with premise taken from art icon Bob Ross and their show, with a dash of Pee Wee’s Playhouse thrown into the mix? The new trailer will be found below the official announcement. ART SHOW! WITH CAPTAIN SKINNER follows the misadventures of a doomed PBS-style television series. As Skinner and his tiny crew (including the stop motion animated Space Cowboy) attempt to produce a television series in outer space, their efforts are constantly thwarted by – well –…
Art-world satires come (The Square); art-world satires go (Velvet Buzzsaw). Few, if any, art-world satires leave any impression whatsoever beyond the transient or the ephemeral. Writer-director Cathy Yan’s (Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, Dead Pigs) latest film, The Gallerist, falls comfortably (or maybe uncomfortably) into this soon-to-be forgotten, memory-holed category. Undoubtedly slick, undeniably stylish, and almost as tedious, stale, and vapid as the self-serving, narcissistic art-world characters at its center, The Gallerist delivers an empty fistful of shocks, thrills, and distractions of the blackly comic, shallow, hollow kind. But for its frenetic, rapid-fire 94-minute running time, The Gallerist almost makes you forget it has nothing new, novel, or original to say about the art world denizens it…
A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join the crew, hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
On the morning of August 22nd, 2023, eight young men, six of them still in school, climbed into a cable car to traverse a valley 900 feet above the remote foothills of Pakistan, a trip the young men took at least twice a day. On that particular day, however, two of three cables snapped, leaving the tram, along with the eight young men inside, dangling precariously over the valley. Considering the remote location, scarcity of resources, and a fraying cable wire, rescue seemed, if not impossible, then highly improbable. Via archival footage, some drone-based cameras, videos captured on cellphones, and, among others, news footage, talking head interviews with the interested parties, and dramatic recreations, writer-director Mohammed Ali Naqvi (The Accused: Damned or Devoted?,…
On the occasion of receiving the European Lifetime Achievement Award at the 38th European Film Awards, Liv Ullmann reflects on cinema as legacy, moral responsibility and the enduring mystery of performance in a conversation that speaks directly to the ethical and artistic stakes of filmmaking today.
Chandler Levack’s latest, the Canadian romcom Mile End Kicks, hit cinemas on April 17th. It will have its long awaited US premiere at SXSW before that. The film’s distributor Sumerian Pictures has sent out a whopper of a gallery of BTS images today. Travel back fiteen years, to 2011 Montreal, down below. A 24-year-old music critic gets romantically involved with members of an indie band she decides to publicize, set against Montreal’s 2011 indie music scene. From Director/Writer Chandler Levack and starring Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick, Stanley Simons, and Juliette Gariépy, MILE END KICKS hits theaters April 17, 2026. From Chandler Levack, the acclaimed director of I Like Movies, comes her sophomore feature MILE END KICKS, which world premiered at TIFF and…
Nearly three decades after its release, The Matrix remains as relevant as ever, and likely always will be. It’s one of my all-time favorite action films. When I first watched it, though, I was captivated less by its philosophy and more by the spectacle: Neo’s long black coat, chunky boots, dark glasses, and the effortless way he bent backward to dodge bullets. As the years passed, I gradually grasped the real meaning of the movie. Especially, a very minute detail that caught my eye when I was rewatching this film after 27 years was the Latin phrase ‘temet nosce’ hung inside the Oracle’s kitchen. She was one of the wisest characters who did not explicitly let Neo know that he is The One. She was…