With films like Grizzly Man and Cave of Forgotten Dreams Werner Herzog has repeatedly proven the poetic capabilities of nonfiction filmmaking. A Herzog documentary often raises as many questions as it answers. It not only presents information on such …Read more

When journalist David Farrier discovered Competitive Endurance Tickling, he thought he had found a perfect subject for a piece on his bizarre stories segment. The more he researched the topic though, the more he realized there was something darker lu …Read more

Girls meet boys, girls ask boys to join them for a sex party, love and other dilemmas ensue. In Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story, Eva Husson’s deliciously confident feature debut, the traditional rules of film romance are swapped for something much mor …Read more

In 2015, Lorenzo Vigas became the first Latin American filmmaker to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for his astonishing feature length debut From Afar. An elegant, sparse tale which focuses on two men from very different worlds who be …Read more

In Margarita with a Straw, Kalki Koechlin delivers one of her most complex performances yet, as Laila, a teenage girl with cerebral palsy who leaves her native India to pursue a career in New York City. But the film is nothing like what that descript …Read more

Waiting to meet Michael Grandage at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City I took a moment to examine the strange artifacts that hung from the cavernous walls of the lobby. Everything from medicine bottles, to whale’s teeth, all of which seemed to …Read more

Nick Jonas makes his feature film debut in Careful What You Wish For, a steamy thriller that sees him play a young man who becomes involved in a tempestuous relationship with his neighbor’s (Dermot Mulroney) wife, Lena (Isabel Lucas) over the course …Read more

Inside the Chinese Closet The premise is intriguing enough— in Shanghai, young gay men and lesbians are willing to go through therapy, fake marriages, adoption clinics and thousands of dollars to honor and appease their mortified, hetero-loving paren …Read more

I strongly suspect that the premise of Therapy for a Vampire originated from an idle joke: What if Freud psychoanalyzed a vampire? Maybe it’s not ‘haha’ funny, but it at least affords a muffled, erudite chuckle if you consider how — well — Freudian …Read more

Flavia, the unlikely heroine of Laura Morante’s comedy Solo (Assolo), is a neurotic mess. Suffocatingly insecure, she’s at a crucial crossroads: newly single, job on the line, children all gown up. Perpetually stuck, and in an existential panic now t …Read more