Category: Movie

Through a Native Lens is a column from film critic and citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Shea Vassar, who will dive into the nuance of cinema’s best and worst cases of Indigenous representation. This entry looks at the truth about scalping and how that’s

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Alan Clarke’s relationship with the BBC arguably produced one of the most important bodies of work in British cinema. A man whose filmmaking courted controversy at almost every turn, the so-called Bresson of Birkenhead, as Andrew Collins once named him in The Guardian, dealt

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Most filmmakers feel content working within easily identifiable genres, but some prefer to color outside the lines. Steven Kostanski’s latest feature sees him move wildly, ridiculously, and smoothly into that latter group as he delivers a fun family film overflowing

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Few show business families fit the bill of Hollywood royalty like the Hustons. Siblings Anjelica Huston and Danny Huston are not shy about recognizing the talent that has been a part of their family since the dawn of Hollywood with their grandfather Walter Huston and

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WandaVision Explained is our ongoing series that keeps tabs on Marvel Studios’ sitcom saga about TV’s happiest tragic couple. In this entry, we turn our channel to WandaVision Episode 3 and consider the invaders who occupy their domestic dream. Yes, prepare for spoilers.

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Sam Levinson has been upfront in revealing that the genesis for Malcolm & Marie – a minimalist two-hander tracking a couple’s nightlong shouting match, produced on the fly and under the radar during lockdown – was an incident from his own life, in which he forgot to

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Welcome to The Queue — your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we’re watching a video essay about the gentle editing of Kelly Reichardt‘s First Cow. When I hear the phrase “movies by women are so

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The Edinburgh International Film Festival may have once been the foremost event on the Scottish film calendar, but it has had strong competition in recent years. Depending on the form and shape you prefer your moving images to take, Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow Short Film

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When you sit down to discuss an acting career that’s spanned 50 years and more than 200 films, it’s hard to know where to begin. Franco Nero, though, wears his status as a screen legend casually – he loves to tell a good yarn, whether it’s about bumping into Andy Warhol or

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Welcome to Commentary Commentary, where we sit and listen to filmmakers talk about their work, then share the most interesting parts. In this edition, Rob Hunter revisits Kenneth Branagh’s Hollywood debut, Dead Again! Kenneth Branagh‘s shift from indie

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