In Very Semi-Serious, director Leah Wolchok takes us inside the Cartoon Department at The New Yorker to paint a portrait of the legendary cartoonists whose work has served as barometers for the mood of American society for decades. Central to the fil …Read more

Miguel Gomes’ Arabian Nights is one of the boldest films at the New York Film Festival, from its sheer size, its wide scope of subjects and tones, and its re-imagining of what it means to make a political film.  We sat down with Miguel to talk about …Read more

The most ignored minority in Europe and most abused victims of human trafficking/hate-crimes, are the Roma (gypsy) people. The majority live in Romania, but are not considered Romanian (an unfortunate etymological coincidence), in fact they are const …Read more

Paolo Sorrentino is a filmmaker maximalist who strings together grand images and fortifies them with powerhouse melodies. Youth, like The Great Beauty before it, tries to cash in on the big intangible ideals, sometimes captured by the old Italian mas …Read more

Director Steven C. Miller is constantly breathing life into genre films, by adhering to one simple rule: make films that are fun to watch. From his first film, Automaton Transfusion, which cost 30 thousand dollars and quickly became a cult hit, to hi …Read more

The suitably named Noel (Kentucker Audley) descends upon NYC every year to sell trees. His plaid jacket and colorful lights strung about the premises add a sprig of joy in an otherwise drab, mundane, and of course, cold environment: cement sidewalks …Read more

With his grizzled Humphrey Bogart looks and impressive acting abilities, actor Koji Yakusho built a 15-year career that’s made him the Tom Hanks of Japan. You’d never guess this from The World of Kanako, where he plays rage-on-tap ex-cop Akikazu Fuji …Read more

Visually and thematically, Hooroo Jackson’s increasingly claustrophobic directorial-debut, Aimy in a Cage, is in many ways a feature-length invocation of Terry Gilliam’s glory days. It also indubitably draws on Tim Burton’s suburban nightmares, the f …Read more

We caught up with Jonathan Bennett to talk about his new action movie Submerged, his favorite “mean girl”, working underwater and since he’s in Cake Wars he also helped us solve the problem regarding the most controversial cake of all time. In Submer …Read more

The semi-autobiographical mixes with modern social issues in Fellipe Barbosa’s impressive, critically acclaimed feature film Casa Grande. Newcomer Thales Cavalcanti stars as Jean, a seventeen-year-old student from a wealthy family in Rio whose home l …Read more