Film

What is it about the water that invites change? Is it the clearing of our minds, paving the way for something new? Maybe it’s the depth. The knowledge that if…

The M.I.A. documentary reminds me so much of why making art is the most healing work we can do. Also, a million other things:⁣ ⁣The first time I heard M.I.A.…

In one room, a mother lies in bed holding her infant, and a woman with silver hair stands beside her, bare breast cupped in her hand, an offer.   In another,…

I have a childhood memory of watching the Korean actor Bak Yongsik on television, playing a hapless buffoon on a comedy show. He was only in his thirties at the…

  To get to the theater where The Shape of Water is playing I have to take a subway to a mall. Once inside the mall, I have to find…

Rarely does a film come along that polarizes audiences immediately and intensely. But Mother! most certainly accomplishes that. The Jennifer Lawrence starring film has been labeled “divisive,” which puts it…

In no particular order, our top 25 movies released in 2017 as curated by the CCM-Entropy community as well as nominations from our readers. 1) Get Out (Dir. Jordan Peele)…

Image credit: Oh My Disney Twenty years ago, in the summer of 1997, McDonalds released a series of plastic plates to go with their Happy Meals, plates with the likes…

Emotion pulls you in every direction in this apocalyptic fantasy of breathtaking destruction. Israeli artist Yael Bartana dares with high theatrics and lush symmetrics in the hellish utopia Inferno (2013).…

In the 1930’s, filmmakers were provided with a set of rules that dictated “acceptable public discourse”, that is, a way of defining and evaluating obscenity and vulgarity on screen. By…

Rachel McLeod Kaminer: Monice! So there’s this movie coming out, Detroit, and I’m immediately hearing criticism from my little corner of the internet. I haven’t seen it. Neither have you.…

I’d told myself that it would be different, moving to New York. For so long, its idealized specter was my saving grace – in theory, of course – as I…

  Unlike the wildly popular post-apocalyptic film genre, whose tales take place after the end of the world, Michael Mann’s 2004 film Collateral paints us a surreal portrait of Los…

As a filmmaker, journalist, and film programmer, I attend festivals all the time. Sometimes one of my films is playing; sometimes I’m there to review films. The most recent festival…