Johnny’s violent rampage leads him to a summer camp, just as a young, outcast camper is forced to spend the night with his counsellor sister and her friends at their annual end-of-season party.
Plus: ‘Dreams,’ ‘Micro Budget,’ ‘Bring the Law,’ ‘The Napa Boys,’ ‘EPiC,’ ‘A Better Tomorrow.’
In his animated feature debut, Zao Xu applies a production designer’s precision to a near future fable that examines precarious labor, mediated intimacy and the fragile architectures, both physical and digital, that shape contemporary isolation.
After an 18-year hiatus, Lance Hammer makes a remarkable return to the director’s chair following his Sundance Award–winning debut Ballast. For this long-awaited project, he assembled what he describes as his dream cast, led by Juliette Binoche and the outstanding Anna Calder-Marshall and Tom Courtenay, who jointly received the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance at this year’s Berlinale. The film also won the Silver Bear Jury Prize, marking recognition from Wim Wenders’ jury and audiences alike for its sensitive yet uncompromising exploration of Alzheimer’s disease. By depicting sexual behaviour involving an elderly person living with dementia, a subject many may find controversial, Queen at Sea confronts a profound ethical dilemma suspended between desire and vulnerability. The film raises urgent questions about autonomy, dignity, and…
As a writer or director of finley crafted, first-rate animated entertainments, Andrew Stanton (Finding Dory, WALL-E, Finding Nemo) has few, if any, equals. Stanton’s only foray into live-action filmmaking, however, John Carter, an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ titular character and his Martian-based adventures, met with critical disinterest and commercial disappointment more than a decade ago. Since then, Stanton returned to Pixar as part of its senior creative team, helping to mold and guide younger filmmakers to animated success. Aside from the long-mooted Toy Story 5, Stanton has remained in a behind-the-scenes role at Pixar, but time and an obvious interest in returning to live-action filmmaking led him to direct In the Blink of an Eye, an underwhelming science-fiction drama based on an original screenplay…
Neve Campbell returns. Kevin Williamson sits in the director’s chair.
Festival people are the best. At the International Film Festival Rotterdam, a filmmaker I met for the first time almost immediately recommended I should watch Cris Tapia Marchiori’s thriller Gatillero, released internationally as Gunman, and it turned out to be one of my favorite films at this year’s festival. Filmed entirely in the outskirts of the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires, and edited to look like one continuous shot, we get to follow petty gangster Pablo through one night which most definitely does not go according to plan. As protagonists go, Pablo is not exactly the most sympathetic one: Gatillero starts with him doing an armed robbery of a small supermarket. Just out of jail and low on cash, Pablo appears to have a stroke of…
After escaping her transphobic hometown, Anna meets goth tattoo artist Gen. They bond over shared supernatural abilities, but Gen’s tattoo work accidentally conjures a demon before their romance can bloom.
We were told we could have the green band trailer if we wanted, but why?
In 1955, Hungarian born Angolan rancher, businessman, and big game hunter, Josef J. Fénykövi, tracked down and killed the largest land animal on record. He was lauded by Sports Illustrated at the time for this sportsman prowess, although Fénykövi also told the story that there was another, much larger elephant that day that got away. Fénykövi diligently measured the proportions of the animal, took his “posed with corpse and guns” photos for the magazine, and donated the remains of this massive elephant (later nicknamed Henry) to the Smithsonian Museum, where it has been on display for over 50 years. Or, rather, parts of it. The two tonnes of skin was mounted over a scaffold, but the structure was not able to support the massive…