Us, Naked: Trixie & Monkey is a film that lives up to its promises. The feature documentary follows husband and wife burlesque performers Trixie Little and The Evil Hate Monkey over the course of several years as they build their career. As two l …Read more

Do I Sound Gay is a fascinating foray into the linguistics of “gay intonation” and its cultural implications. After going through a break-up with a long-time boyfriend, director and subject David Thorpe takes a trip to Fire Island and begins to feel …Read more

The Yes Men Are Revolting is the third charming installment in a trilogy of films about, and in-part directed by, activist pranksters The Yes Men. This time around, the film explores two main themes: global warming and Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum …Read more

“I’m a person just like you But I’ve got better things to do Than sit around and fuck my head Hang out with the living dead” – Straight Edge, Minor Threat (1980) These lyrics started what is now known as the straight edge movement. It all began with …Read more

Banksy Does New York, from director Chris Moukarbel, is not a film about Banksy. If you are looking for the answers to all of your burning questions about his (or her) private life, favorite meal, or biggest fear, keep looking. What this film is, is …Read more

Stonehearst Asylum, directed by Brad Anderson and written by Joe Gangemi, is adapted from Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether” about patients in an insane asylum who overthrow and imprison the hospital staff …Read more

Norwegian filmmaker Erik Poppe switches up gender roles in his film 1,000 Times Goodnight. In yet another striking and powerful performance, Juliette Binoche stars as Rebecca Thomas, a highly respected war photographer who, after a near-death car bom …Read more

“I was conscious in my mother’s womb,” a wise Indian voice opens the film to abstract images of light and water and the tune of Hindu music, “feeling the movements in her body, aware of my own helpless state, this body bundle of bones is not I…On o …Read more

When The Little Bedroom directors Véronique Reymond and Stéphanie Chuat walked into the room, they were instantly warm. Véronique and I chatted about her scarf (with little yellow owls on it) while Stéphanie told their publicist about the new flat (t …Read more

It is easy to be fascinated by a Nazi movie. It is easy to talk about a Nazi profile as an analysis of evil. But at this point, with already such an exhaustive film history (Schindler’s List, Sophie’s Choice, Shoah coming in at just over 10 hours), i …Read more