Having its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, the Argentine film To Kill the Beast takes us into a surreal journey filled with evocative imagery under a gothic atmosphere....
In the Mexican documentary Comala, filmmaker Gian Cassini does a deep dive into his own past to investigate the life and death of a Tijuana hitman nicknamed ‘El Jimmy,’ a man who...
Have you ever been to Los Angeles? If you haven’t, director Carlos López Estrada will take you there with his new film Summertime, a slam poetry musical that celebrates the cultural and...
Late in 2020, I was able to get a screener for Heidi Ewing's I Carry You With Me. By the time the end credits rolled, I knew it was something special. The film...
Will Thorne's directorial debut Silent Night is that most unusual of genre mixes: a Christmas gangster thriller. It is a typically wry effort which takes some unexpected twists and turns and keeps...
With the London Film Festival now over, there has been ample time to digest its slate of movies and consider which were the best and which might fade quickly into the ether....
South Bend, Indiana, is a city known predominantly for two names – Notre Dame and Pete Buttigieg. Years ago, it was known as the headquarters for Studebaker. But, in between, there are...
