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"The Magician's Elephant" Review: An Elephant-Sized Misfire for Netflix
Chatbots and algorithmically created art are the hot topics of the day, so it feels only natural that Netflix's latest animated film would feel like its been created by a computer system thats been fed...
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DING, an animation by Malte Stein, is not your typical horror story
DING, a wonderful animation by Malte Stein, is not your typical horror film. This animated short is about a dude who gets stalked by a cute but blood-thirsty little creature who enjoys chomping on his...
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John Boyega's resentment towards Star Wars is beginning to soften
If there's one thing that most people can agree on when it comes to Disney Star Wars sequels is that they kept consistently making the wrong choice. Instead of having all of the original cast members-...
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"Boston Strangler" offers genre delights over political truths
Loretta McLaughlin (Keira Knightley) has it rough. She's a woman journalist in the early 1960s, in smoke-filled rooms with clattering keyboards, where her gender covers the fluffier topics like...
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The Scared is Scared: a film where a kid tells the director what the film...
The Scared is Scared is a film by Bianca Giaever that revolves around a kid's honest answer to Giaever's question "what should the film be about?" The entire narration of the film is a recording of the...
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Experimental stop-motion short takes viewers on a whimsical journey through...
When I was growing up, I was obsessed with stop-motion films! I was so curious about the process and patience required that my first years of college study focused on puppet making and video art–an...
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From underground comix to Oscar nominations: Terry Zwigoff's career...
The amazing Drew Friedman, author and illustrator of many of my favorite books, including Old Jewish Comedians, Heroes of the Comics, More Heroes of the Comics, and Maverix and Lunatix: Icons of...
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"DOSED: The Trip of a Lifetime" follows microdosing mom with cancer; North...
DOSED 2: The Trip of a Lifetime tells the story of Laurie, a mother of four and terminally ill cancer patient who was granted legal access to psilocybin "magic" mushrooms, to alleviate her end-of-life...
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Experimental documentary "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" is a cinematic rarity
Back in 1970, documentarian extraordinaire Frederick Wiseman offered a glimpse into the wiring and stitching of the Metropolitan Hospital in New York City in the simply titled Hospital. A rare glimpse...
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Decadent montage of silver-screen sweets
Let them eat cake…on film. Feast your eyes on this sweet supercut of sweets in the movies. That's it, just three minutes of on-film desserts. It was edited by Madzia Zalewa for Little White Lies. (The...
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Interview: legendary Japanese director Mamoru Oshii
Through deeply philosophical questions, brilliant character design and fluidly-animated action sequences, Ghost in the Shell has become synonymous with anime's storytelling potential. And no scene in...
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Cocaine Shark is apparently a thing
Following in the intoxicated footsteps made by Elizabeth Bank's film Cocaine Bear comes the trailer for the upcoming Cocaine Shark. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Throughout...
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Vox explains how A24 became one of the most consistent studios in Hollywood
When did you first start to take notice of A24? Even if you're not a massive buff or the type to focus on production houses before watching a film, odds are there's at least one A24 film you're either...
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Christopher Nolan on why some scenes in Oppenheimer are in black & white
Blockbuster director Christopher Nolan is opening up about why segments of his upcoming film Oppenheimer are in black and white. Christopher Nolan is one of a kind. Through his love of filmmaking,...
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Criterion Channel under fire for unexplained edit in "The French Connection"
Movie enthusiasts are sounding their frustration over the censorship and "clunky edit" of a particular scene in William Friedkin's 1971 movie The French Connection film on the Criterion Channel...
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Michael Shannon shares his Criterion Closet picks
Certain guys just have that look. No matter how hard they try to conceal it with smiles and positive energy, some guys have an inherently menacing appearance. Take Willem Dafoe, for example. Although...
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The curious erotic connection between Twin Peaks and Betty Boop's Snow White
Over at HiLoBrow, writer Colin Dickey has a fascinating three-part essay examining a filmic phenomenon that he dubs the Mystery Cave — a mystical dreamworld, oozing with erotic energy, that threatens...
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The first trailer for Dumb Money captures the insanity of the Gamestop stock...
Now that we're heading into summer, dads nationwide can finally bust out their favorite fact about the seasonal weather. "You know," they'll say with a wry grin, "it's not the heat that gets ya; it's...
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Netflix's "The Perfect Find" Is a Delightful Black Ode to Old Hollywood
In The Perfect Find, Netflix's new romantic comedy from Numa Perrier, Jenna (Gabrielle Union) feels positively plucked from the type of pre-code romance typically helmed by an Ernst Lubitsch or William...
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Everything comes full circle in the trailer for Dune Part Two
Denis Villeneuve had a lot to live up to when he took the reigns of the Dune's future in cinema. Aside from being one of the most beloved novels in the history of science fiction, Dune's legacy in the...
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Pedro Pascal inspired the design of a character in Spider-Man: Across the...
According to Comic Book Resources, actor Pedro Pascal was the visual base for one of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse's characters. Hollywood provides us with an actor that becomes America's dad...
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Coen Brothers reuniting on mystery film project after five years working apart
Big cinema news! After a five-year hiatus, Joel and Ethan Coen, better known as the Coen Brothers, are reuniting for a new film project. The brothers have been working on individual projects, but now...
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Talking Heads are reuniting for one day only, David Byrne "regrets" being a...
On Monday, September 11, the 4K restoration of Jonathan Demme's classic Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense will premier at the Toronto International Film Festival. Trailer below. In...
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Coming soon from filmmaker Case Esparros: "The Absence of Milk in the Mouths...
The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost is the new feature length film by artist and filmmaker Case Esparros, director of King Baby (2019) – IMDb. You can watch the trailer here. The film stars...
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Here is the first trailer for Hayao Miyazaki's final film
Below is the first trailer for The Boy and the Heron, Studio Ghibli auteur Hayao Miyazaki's first feature film since The Wind Rises in 2013. He says it will also be his final film. The Boy and the...
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Japanese auteurs Miyazaki and Kurosawa chatting it up about art and life (video)
Two of the greatest Japanese filmmakers in history—Hayao Miyazaki and Akira Kurosawa—talk about life and art in this 1993 footage. Below is a brief clip with subtitles followed by much more of the...
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Ridley Scott's "Napoleon" gets a full-length trailer
After a series of rumors and teaser, legendary director Ridley Scott's next movie, a biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte (the second-most controversial Frenchman) has been released. Joaquin Phoenix in the...
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Visit Brian Eno's imaginary landscapes and explore his creative process in...
In the 1980s and 1990s, Mystic Fire was a New York-based producer of direct-to-VHS videos at the intersection of art, music, consciousness, and the counterculture. They released films by and about...
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"Titicut Follies" (1967) is a once-banned documentary about the horrific...
Titicut Follies is a documentary released in 1967 that exposed the horrific and cruel treatment of prisoners in 1966 at the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Bridgewater,...
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Ethereal mermaid lagoon scene from 1924 live action silent film adaptation of...
Here's an ethereal mermaid lagoon scene from the 1924 live-action, silent film adaptation of J.M. Barrie's play and novel Peter Pan. I've never seen the film, but based on this scene alone I'm...
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