Honeymoon, the debut horror film from director Leigh Janiak, takes us to a cabin the woods – a locale so immediately familiar to anyone with a passing knowledge of the genre that it was even used as the title of a recent deconstruction of the genre. …Read more

The conflict between Israel and Palestine seems as entrenched as any on Earth – weighed down by implacable forces of history and religion, it’s harder to imagine a resolution than it is to imagine hostilities continuing for years to come. Yet Nadav S …Read more

Adventure tourism today suffers from a law of diminishing returns; Westerners travel to far-flung locales seeking a degree of “naturalness” and “authenticity” absent from their own homes, but those same elusive qualities fade away with every outside …Read more

BAM is embarking on a retrospective of one of cinema’s most elusive, idiosyncratic, and brilliant auteurs, Chris Marker, beginning with the U.S. theatrical premiere of one of Marker’s lesser seen works, Level Five. There’s a certain irony in calling …Read more

Mateo is a fascinating look at a culturally liminal figure, who slips back and forth between the culture he was born in and the culture he’s chosen. Mateo is the stage name of Matthew Stoneman, America’s most famous “gringo mariachi.” It almost sound …Read more

It’s a truism in Hollywood that you can’t make a movie with a passive protagonist. Movies thrive on the illusion that we can all take charge of the situations we find ourselves in and act to change them in meaningful ways in 120 minutes. But no matte …Read more

Mixing genres is all the rage these days, but it’s too often done in a haphazard, superficial way that improves the marketing pitch rather than the finished film. Too rarely do we see films mix genres at the structural level of the film, allowing the …Read more

As they sit in Union Square, watching the never-ending drama of New York City unfold before them on a summer night, Dan (Mark Ruffalo) tells Gretta (Keira Knightley) that what he loves most about music is its ability to take something banal and inves …Read more

This week saw the conclusion of Brooklyn’s Northside Festival, which is best known for its music but also hosts a growing film program. Now in its fifth year, the festival featured a wildly eclectic mix of films; like its host borough, the lineup was …Read more

“Homemakers” is a film so filled with destruction and chaos, both physical and emotional, that it’s possible to miss its deeper themes, which are lurking like something hidden behind the walls that its protagonist so ardently destroys. But it’s not t …Read more