Film

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…

Donuts and secrets are on the menu this Christmas Eve in Hollywood. In its initial synopsis, Sean Baker’s Tangerine (2015) comes across a touch experimental and niche, “A working girl…

Even into the 21st Century the people of France continue their disdain for their last Queen, Marie Antoinette, more colloquially known as Madame Déficit. When Sofia Coppola’s contemporary rendering of…

Without affirmative calm or resolution, The Sweet Hereafter (1997) departs much in the same way as it arrives. Adapted from a book and based on true events, this multi-layered account…

There hasn’t been a time I was less at home in my own body than when I was a teenager. Breasts sprouted, full of possibility that would never be realized.…

In 1992, a twelve year old boy rented a movie from his local Blockbuster which featured a blonde cheerleader who also happened to be a vampire slayer. I had fantastic…

Brazenly setting the tone, the film opens with the words of Alfred de Musset, Romantic poet, writer and lover of Georges Sand, “The only truth is love beyond reason.” Indeed,…

  “Vengeance is her only reason for living…” An asura, in Buddhist mythology, is described as a vengeful demigod that can never know true happiness – their desires and longings…