There are few things more unsettling than watching an unsupervised young boy find a handgun while playing on a rooftop in New York City. On one hot summer day in Brooklyn, with various targets to train his angelic eyes on, no one is safe in director …Read more
Over 23,000 individuals have gone missing since 2007 as a result of drug-related violence in the Mexico-US border, and while the statistics are impressive in themselves, they’re even more powerful when we see the faces that go along with them. In Kin …Read more
Daniel Raim’s Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story is a delightful film about two of the most influential figures in cinema history, most people have never heard about. Throughout the studio system era, Harold Michelson’s storyboards helped env …Read more
When people must blanket their rooftops with photos of their children so that drones don’t attack them, something is wrong with our vision, our objectives, and the instruments of those objectives. Drone is a must-see documentary: a sobering, disturbi …Read more
Within the occupied land of Palestine, under the constant threat of violence and uncertainty, an emerging community of racing drivers is flourishing. Since its introduction in 2005, the relatively new sport has become an activity that has not only br …Read more
Ingrid Bergman was undoubtedly one of the brightest stars in film history. From her three Oscar winning performances, to her work in Europe, she was a woman living very much ahead of her time, something that becomes even more obvious upon real …Read more
The idea that comedians are the unhappiest people on earth has never proved truer than in Rick Alverson’s fourth feature, Entertainment. Behold The Comedian, a middle-aged man who dons a ruffled shirt under an ill-fitting tux and oversize plastic gla …Read more
Co-directors Holly Morris and Anne Bogart’s Kickstarter-backed film shows none of the horrific deformations that mainstream media covered following 1986’s Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion. Rather, The Babushkas of Chernobyl is an important and ins …Read more
Amidst the rich tapestry of archival footage and home movies from which the documentary Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words is composed, there is a screen-test of the silver screen icon that she did for David O. Selznick upon first arriving in Hollywood …Read more
Starting out from a farm in Missouri, Steve McQueen rose through the ranks of Hollywood to become the King of Cool. Hugely popular flicks like The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Bullitt, and The Thomas Crown Affair served to make McQueen an ico …Read more