Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Condemnation comes much easier in THE TEACHER where a seemingly passionate and kind teacher uses her pupils to manipulate their parents for her own personal benefit, whether for material gain or even the promise of a romantic affair. Concerned …
As a young boy I was besotted with the television show, The Samurai. I was eager to follow Shintaro, Tombe the Mist, and the adventures of the Iga ninjas. It was an entrée into an exotic and esoteric world …
A treasure map that is, in and of itself, a treasure trove, THE BOOK OF FORGOTTEN AUTHORS is a resurrectionist text of literary loot too long buried.
Christopher Fowler has given us a literary atlas which empowers us to become …
Sam Shepard said of Harry Dean Stanton, “His face is the story.”
Shepard sure as shit got that right. Just point the camera and shoot and the Harry Dean visage gives a narrative.
Logan Sparks and Drago Sumonja‘s …
If there are two kinds of truth in the realm of detective fiction, both kinds verify Michael Connelly as one of the pre-eminent practitioners of the genre in modern times.
TWO KINDS OF TRUTH is his latest novel, the twentieth …
What is it with Greg McLean?! Has he had a bad experience with backpackers and now wants them to suffer vicariously through his cinematic sadism.
What McLean did for Outback psychos in Wolf Creek, he duplicates for troppo tour guides …
There is homicide, for sure, in MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, but the hirsute splendour of the consulting detective could necessitate the renaming of the caper to Moustache on the Orient Express.
Taking his cue from his character’s creator, Kenneth …
“It’s a metaphor.” says one of the characters in THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER, writer/director/producer Yorgos Lanthimos, follow up film to the critical and commercial success, The Lobster. Lanthimos and his regular collaborator, Efthimis Filippou, co-wrote …
Huggable. This could be the most huggable film of the year.
BRIGSBY BEAR is arms around torso, head and shoulders above a mere embrace.
BRIGSBY BEAR is a true original, creating comfort from discomfort, cuddles out of curdles, humour out …
As fatuous as a Facebook page and the intellectual and emotional weight of an Instagram, the addiction and mental decay attributed to the servility of cyberspace is an insidious problem even with so-called normal people.
Saddled to a sufferer of …