Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023

"Close" is a crushing story of grief told with grace by Belgian director Lukas Dhont. At its heart is a friendship, loving and deep, between two 13-year-old boys, Leo (Eden Dambrine) and Remi (Gustav De Waele), in the countryside.

It is summertime when we meet them, playing and dreaming...

Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022

Elegance Bratton is certainly not the first person to turn to the military to fill a hole in his life. But the filmmaker also knew he had a boot camp story that hadn't been told a dozen times before. His feature debut, " The Inspection," is an intensely personal and truthful, if not entirely...

Sunday, Sep. 4, 2022

Brendan Fraser is having a moment at the Venice International Film Festival.

The once ubiquitous movie star of "The Mummy" franchise and "George of the Jungle" had, in the last decade, backed away from the spotlight. But Fraser is charting what could be a major comeback starting with his...

Friday, Jun. 24, 2022

Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp were at a bit of a career crossroads when they manifested Marcel, a one-inch-tall seashell with a tiny voice and a big heart.

Slate had recently been let go from "Saturday Night Live" after one season and wasn't sure if she'd get another chance to do...

Tuesday, May. 17, 2022

It wasn't Jessie Buckley's audition but an observation she made that got her the leading role in " Men."

When speaking to filmmaker Alex Garland about his heady idea to grapple with masculinity and its foundational myths and virulent cycles within a folk horror construct, Buckley caught...

Monday, Jun. 28, 2021

It's not easy to put a finger on Janicza Bravo's cinema. In describing her work, which now encompasses nine shorts and two feature films, including the new film "Zola,"  you want to use words like surreal, disturbing, satirical, absurd, otherworldly. 

"These are all very good, sexy words...

Monday, Feb. 22, 2021

The riverbed, more than anything else, needed to be exactly right. 

In Lee Isaac Chung's Arkansas-set family drama, "Minari," land is something more than a setting. It's a future. It's a dream. Jacob Yi (Steven Yeun) has moved his family to a wide-open Arkansas plot to farm the land and,...

Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020

Even mock elections require wall-to-wall coverage, so when Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine set out to document Texas' Boys State, the week-long summer camp of civics simulation run by the American Legion since 1935, they hired seven cinematographers to stay close to a handful of the 1,100...

Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020

Teenage political junkies at a leadership conference doesn't seem like the most riveting subject matter for a documentary. As a product of teenage leadership conferences, I assumed that at best, maybe, it could be fodder for a black comedy. But the new documentary " Boys State " convinced me...

Friday, Jul. 17, 2020

Twenty-five indie entertainment industry companies have come together to form the American Coalition for Independent Content Production which is calling on government to provide support and relief during the pandemic, making it more feasible for business to properly resume. The coalition is...

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