Directed by Clint Eastwood, the film stars Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris Messina, Gabriel Basso, Zoey Deutch, Cedric Yarbrough, Leslie Bibb, Amy Aquino, and Adrienne C. Moore.
James Duval, is an American actor who rose to prominence in the 1990s as a key figure in the New Queer Cinema movement. Duval is perhaps best known for his collaborations with independent filmmaker Gregg Araki, particularly in Araki’s “Teenage […]
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The strange, rollercoaster of a career for Michel Gondry continues in 2025. His recent feature The Book of Solutions will finally get a U.S. release, while his Pharrell Williams-inspired Atlantis, starring the epic cast of Kelvin Harrison Jr., Halle Bailey, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Brian Tyree Henry, Quinta Brunson, Janelle Monáe, Jaboukie Young-White, Tim Meadows, Anderson […]
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After terrifying audiences at this year’s Sundance and TIFF, Steven Soderbergh’s haunted house experiment Presence will finally make its way to U.S. theaters to kick off the new year. NEON picked up the movie following its Sundance premiere, adding it […]
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Steven Soderbergh is gearing up for a busy early 2025. Before his thriller Black Bag, starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender, arrives in March, we’ll finally get the release of his formally inventive ghost tale Presence. Coming from NEON a year after its Sundance premiere, the supernatural thriller starring Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang, […]
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Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin star in a film written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg.
Revisiting cinematic legacies has become a genre unto itself. In 2021, the Tribeca Film Festival showcased Eddie Martin’s documentary The Kids, a behind-the-scenes expose of Larry Clark’s cult classic, revealing a web of collective trauma, exploitation, and victimhood. This year’s edition shines a similar spotlight on Kevin Smith’s cherished yet problematic rom-com Chasing Amy, all through the lens of director Sav Rodgers. Rodgers gained viral attention following a TED talk where he credited the film with saving his life as a queer kid. His talk resonated widely, even prompting Kevin Smith to reach out. The same film, however, has been criticized for presenting a cishet white man’s conception of queer life that lacks genuine representation. Elizabeth Sankey’s docu-essay Romantic Comedy critiques the…
A review of the HBO series adaptation of “Like Water for Chocolate.”
A pair of Mormon missionary sisters find themselves in a dangerous battle of wills with a charming but sinister spiritual seeker in Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’s religious themed horror puzzle box, Heretic. Sisters Paxton (Chloe East) and Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) are a pair of young, ambitious missionaries eager to make their next conversion, if they can just get in the door. Paxton is a neophyte, raised in the church but without a single baptism under her belt, she’s starting to get discouraged at her perceived failure. By her side is Sister Barnes, a more rough-and-tumble vet of the missionary game, who seems just as comfortable with success as failure but also very ready for a win. Checking off names on their list of curious…
I don’t want to discount the possibility of the supernatural, since there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy, but most ‘monsters; do turn out to be human. And more often than not, a human with very specific characteristics. But there is no doubt that a theory of monsters, perhaps, can be helpful – or at least, there is a healthy fear that can come from that fear, that would hopefully drive some to action. Part coming of age story, part supernatural capture, part romance, Spirit in the Blood follows a somewwhat familiar path, though with a different eye, asking us to rethink how we might view certain characters that are often presented without depth in horror films….