Luke Sabis’ feature film, Missing Child, is a small gem of a thriller that is definitely worth your time. Missing Child focuses on an aspiring fashion designer named Gia (Kristen Ruhlin) – a young lady whose life has been shrouded in mystery for as long as she can remember. Possibly abducted at the age of […]
This review contains spoilers. Larry Clark’s Bully is one of the greatest films of 2001. It is the best film that Clark has ever made, and it features a career-defining and heartbreaking performance from the late actor, Brad Renfro. Bully tells a true story that is as horrifying as it is pathetic. This is the […]
When their mother arrives home after reconstructive surgery, twins Elias and Lukas immediately notice that something is not quite right. With her face completely wrapped in bandages, their mother has become short-tempered and emotionally distant. Soon, the boys begin to suspect that the woman behind the bandages may not be their mother at all, but […]
Robert Eggers’ The Witch is the type of horror film that I have been anxiously awaiting for quite some time. It is, simply put, one of the best films of the year – maybe even the decade. Perhaps the century. That is not hyperbole, it is merely the truth. The film opens in the 1600s, […]
Keyhole is a wonder of a film from Guy Maddin – a gleefully psychedelic head trip that tells the tale of a man named Ulysses, who comes home one night after attempting to rescue a young woman from drowning. He walks into the house, carrying her over his shoulder. She’s still alive – barely so […]
The Beast is one of the most controversial foreign films to come out of the seventies, and now the people at Arrow have given us a chance to view it in all of its shocking glory. Walerian Borowczyk made a name for himself in the seventies by making artistically and technically accomplished erotic films, beginning […]
Till Kleinert’s Der Samurai has finally arrived on Blu-ray, courtesy of Artsploitation Films. In my opinion, it is one of the best films I have seen in quite some time. Der Samurai unfolds like a fairy tale, as a young officer named Jakob quietly carries a bag of bloody, raw meat through the forest with […]
Based on the short story by John Cheever, Frank Perry’s acclaimed cult classic, The Swimmer, is the very definition of a film that was way ahead of its time. Released in 1968, it is a haunting and dream-like experience that lingers in the mind. When we first meet middle-aged Ned Merrill (the legendary Burt Lancaster), […]
“In life, the borderline between fiction and reality is blurred.” Henry Jaglom’s Venice/Venice opens, as many of his films often do, with several diverse women talking straight into the camera. They speak candidly about the movies, the great love stories of cinema, and how many of those films shaped their perceptions of reality. Within each […]
Bad Education (or La Mala Educación) is Almodovar’s masterpiece. It is also one of his most personal films, because elements within the film are autobiographical in nature. This film is told in a noirish fragmented narrative structure that will demand your attention throughout. When Enrique and Ignacio fall in love with one another at a […]
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