It’s about time American audiences feasted on a sex comedy with more than just a shallow heartbeat. Unlike American Pie, which was too sanitized, too clean, too “Hollywood”, Duccio Chiarini’s Short Skin has dared to go where its predecessor only hint …Read more

To many, the music of The Beach Boys is a foundational boulder set in the California cliffside upon which the entire culture rests. To remove it, is to ignore one of the most integral components of life in Southern California during the 1960s. Summer …Read more

Sara Serraiocco stars as seventeen-year-old Jenny in Chlorine (Cloro), a lovely and melancholic portrait of a girl’s struggle to fulfill her purpose and make sense of the world in the midst of familial dysfunction and tragedy. A devoted synchronized …Read more

In a career that spanned more than five decades and over two hundred films, cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa became one of the true poets of cinema. He became interested in painting from a very early age and as a teenager, his passion for images led …Read more

Ted Geoghegan’s We Are Still Here, a throwback to the haunted house films of the late 1970s and early 1980s, is the longtime writer/producer’s feature directorial debut. The film, about a mourning couple (Barbara Crampton and Andrew Sensenig) being t …Read more

Screenwriter turned director Ted Geoghegan has delivered a confident feature debut with his haunted house tale, We Are Still Here. Following the tragic death of their son, Anne (Barbara Crampton) and Paul (Andrew Sensenig) move to a small and quiet t …Read more

While most summer movies sink under the weight of expectations they can rarely fulfill, some others show up almost unassumingly and prove to be truly delightful experiences, such is the case with Walking on Sunshine, an unexpectedly enjoyable musical …Read more

Stéphane Lafleur’s Tu dors Nicole first played in New York City at New Directors New Films, and it felt like a breath of fresh air. The vibrant film stars Julianne Côté as the title character, an insomniac young woman caught in a limbo between adulth …Read more

Andrew Bujalski’s  Results fixes his unflinching gaze on the trainers and trainees of Power4Life, a gym in suburban Austin, TX. The gym as a sphere of human activity occupies more prominence in peoples’ lives than ever, but has remained more or less …Read more

Set against the backdrop of a massive student strike, Alonso Ruizpalacios’ coming-of-age film Güeros is a playful and lyrical love letter to his native Mexico City. Embarking on a road trip in search of a fabled folk singer, two brothers, Sombra and …Read more