In Advantageous, writers Jennifer Phang and Jacqueline Kim imagine an intriguing near-future where rapid technological and economic advancement has left humanity in its wake. The middle-aged workforce find themselves redundant in a society where they …Read more

Life, death and folktales converge in Sarah Adina Smith’s dreamy mystery, The Midnight Swim. Water conservationist Dr. Amelia Brooks (Beth Grant) is presumed dead when she fails to resurface after a deep-water dive in Spirit Lake, a body of water so …Read more

Carol Reed’s The Third Man is a seminal piece of 1940s cinema and Film Forum is showing a new 4K restoration from June 26 to July 9.  Directed by Reed, executive co-produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Orson Welles, there shouldn’t be too much …Read more

Full of lush greenery and biodiversity, the Galapagos Islands have enchanted people for decades, but not everyone gets what they bargained for as it happens in Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, an intriguing …Read more

Silence in Dreamland earns the right to be nestled under “slow cinema” with its dearth of dialogue and longish takes, though not nearly as measured or ponderous as other subtropical climate-set films by Tsai Ming Liang or Aphichatphong Weerasethakul. …Read more

The charge against our culture of sequels is usually that it’s cravenly commercial and leads to derivative rehashes of popular films. But what if you took a film that wasn’t popular in the first place, gave it to another director, took little beyond …Read more

Iván Mora’s ensemble character study, Sin otoño, sin primavera (No Autumn, No Spring) is set in one of Ecuador’s largest and most densely populated cities, Guayaquil, which seams together the story of ten middle class lives, some directly connected, …Read more

Mark and Jay Duplass have a reputation for creating organic, character-driven dramedies that chart the often complex nature of everyday relationships, and Manson Family Vacation which they produced is no exception. Written and Directed by J Davis, a …Read more

Despite the pain and anguish relatives of the deceased will experience during a murder trial, our societal fascination with crime endures. Perhaps this is because the procedural aspects of solving a mystery are quite similar to telling a story. The n …Read more

Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party succeeds through paradoxes: it’s a coming of age story, but it all takes place in one day’s time, it’s mostly the story of one individual, Henry Gamble, but to tell that story truthfully it must use a large ensemble of c …Read more