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The call-out controversy arising between Boots Riley, director of Sorry to Bother You, and director Spike Lee — whose new film, BlacKkKlansman, Riley accuses of … Continue reading
Jump inside the sticky sweet world of Masaaki Yuasa, director of Lu Over The Garden Wall and Devilman Crybaby, as he masterfully crafts a tale … Continue reading
For all the things that have changed about being a teen — apps and laptops, likes and subscribes, the endless awareness that everyone else really … Continue reading
Boots Riley’s debut movie is an outrageous and glorious mess. Its sympathies are intrinsically Marxist, but the aesthetics of Sorry to Bother You are a … Continue reading
The credits rolled by, and I looked around me. I was the lone male in the Springfield movie theater. But that’s okay, because this is … Continue reading
Director Debra Granik’s 2010 coming-of-age drama Winter’s Bone set a new highwater mark for American independent cinema. A work of anxious discovery, ancient entanglements and … Continue reading
If you as a child had even a passing familiarity with Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, you don’t need anyone to tell you to hop the trolley … Continue reading
In 1866, the legendary Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky released a vicious little novel called Crime and Punishment, about a poor college student, Raskolnikov, who brutally … Continue reading
There are a handful of movies I never tire of watching, and one of them is Rosemary’s Baby. That film, about the birth of Satan’s … Continue reading
Ronit (Rachel Weisz) works in a hip studio, photographing old men with Jesus tattoos in New York City when she finds out her father, a … Continue reading