Predators: Badlands works best when it’s dealing with the organic. In the soft, frictionless world of so many computer-generated tentpole spectacles, there’s a textured sensuality to the world crafted by director Dan Trachtenberg that’s undeniably appealing. The scaled, rippled skin of the...
A conflicted elegy for an America poisoned by manifest destiny, Denis Johnson’s captivating 2011 novella spans most of a century, from...
It was the Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised, and Harlem-championing photojournalist Kwame Brathwaite who came to popularise the phrase “Black is Beautiful,” which...
Radu Jude’s Hungarian protagonist Orsolya (Eszter Tompa) lives near the historic Transylvanian city of Cluj, which is being overrun by...
On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, and finally, for...
For a director’s project that would come in between an MCU sequel and the latest in the 28 Days… zombie horror...
Amidst this year’s grand line-up of London Film Festival galas, a treasure trove of titles awaited discovery: BFI restorations, archival interventions,...
In the back section…Jafar PanahiMarina Ashioti talks to the Iranian legend who discusses his deserving Palme d’Or-winner, It Was Just...
In Scott Derrickson’s 1978-set The Black Phone, ‘the Grabber’ (Ethan Hawke) was just a run-of-the-mill masked killer. His boy victims, however,...
Now and then it occurs to me that the future of my very existence, as well as that of the...
