The National Gallery in London’s Trafalgar Square is home to more than two thousand paintings and receives more than six million visitors each year (it’s the fourth most visited museum in the world!), but in Frederick Wiseman’s pragmatically-titled d …Read more
Heaven Knows What opens with the slow burn of a fuse leading to an explosion. In a public library, Harley (Arielle Holmes) tries to get the attention of her boyfriend Ilya (Caleb Landry Jones), but he’s disinterested and rude. Harley has an ineffable …Read more
In Grind writer/director Zachary Halley poses the question: do we ever really know who we’re talking to? Using a Grindr-like app to frame his story, he introduces us to the awkward, but brilliant Vincent (Anthony Rapp) and model Thane (Pasha Pellosie …Read more
When The Little Bedroom directors Véronique Reymond and Stéphanie Chuat walked into the room, they were instantly warm. Véronique and I chatted about her scarf (with little yellow owls on it) while Stéphanie told their publicist about the new flat (t …Read more
It is easy to be fascinated by a Nazi movie. It is easy to talk about a Nazi profile as an analysis of evil. But at this point, with already such an exhaustive film history (Schindler’s List, Sophie’s Choice, Shoah coming in at just over 10 hours), i …Read more
Bitcoin started out as an amusing experiment for the tech-savvy, but its scope soon widened. It is now on its way to becoming a serious player in world economics; not only that, Bitcoin has humanitarian potential, especially for the large majority of …Read more
“I believe in the people. I believe in all the people. And I believe in truth. And believing in truth means seeing things from another person’s point of view”, It was inspiring words like these that led the Nigerian people to democratically elect M.K …Read more
The New York Film Festival kicked off tonight with the world premiere of David Fincher’s Gone Girl (read all of our festival coverage here). Based on the bestseller by Gillian Flynn, the film focuses on the mysterious disappearance of Amy Dunne (Rosa …Read more
Simply put, Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank, cannot be simply put. It’s ridiculous, puckishly funny, a paper mache filled paradise. Jon Burroughs, played sweetly by Domhnall Gleeson, is a keyboardist and struggling songwriter who’s stumbled on the coolest …Read more
Yann Demange’s ’71 depicts what are so wildly euphemistically called “the troubles,” the decades of death and violence waged over the British presence in Ireland, but this film differs from most on the subject by featuring a young English soldier on …Read more
