Six months have passed since this year’s iteration of Sundance kicked off the 2025 festival calendar, and though Cannes is only a few weeks behind cinephiles (and souls aplenty have still yet...
Clint Eastwood turns 95 this week. An almost unfathomable milestone for a career that feels as elemental as the Hollywood sign itself, and as raw and unforgiving as a high-noon standoff. To...
With the Palme d’Or win for his latest movie, It Was Just An Accident, Iranian director Jafar Panahi joins an elite class of directors who’ve won the big three festival prizes at...
I still remember the first time I saw Pam Grier in a movie.
It was my early cinephilia days, I was on a Quentin Tarantino marathon, a.k.a. keeping up with releases before "Inglorious...
She emerges from a coma with a single, burning purpose etched onto her soul: revenge, or as she says, “Kill Bill.”. Beatrix Kiddo, "The Bride," codename Black Mamba (Uma Thurman), cuts a...
When I made a comment about Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun on Twitter (I’m sorry, I will always call it that), I never dreamt that I would be here writing an actual essay on it. But...
For the 40 years prior to his retirement in 2004, Gene Hackman was a force of nature on film. No other actor, before or since, has had the ability to both be...
To whom it may concern,
Brazil is turning 40 this year! Can you believe it? It seemed it only came out yesterday - kooky kid.
Brazil, where hearts were entertaining June
We stood beneath an...
