April Klein, Arts & Life Editor
/ October 31, 2024
Flashes of the past and present are overlaid on top of one another throughout “Grand Tour.” A dance of motorcycles swirling around a roundabout is played simultaneously with footage of the Chinese...
Jake Panek, Film & TV Beat Writer
/ October 30, 2024
A post-apocalyptic anti-musical overwhelmed with guilt and grief, Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The End” follows a billionaire family and the cracks that start to form when a young woman shows up in the...
April Klein, Arts & Life Editor
/ October 30, 2024
The rarity of something like Jules Rosskam’s “Desire Lines” is reason enough for its existence. Woven in-between talking heads interviews with gay trans men speaking frankly about their experiences...
Jake Panek, Film & TV Beat Writer
/ October 30, 2024
The first narrative film from Indian director Payal Kapadia, “All We Imagine as Light” is a spellbinding story of two nurses who share an apartment in Mumbai and a sisterhood forged amidst their respective...
Claire Tweedie, Former Editor in Chief
/ October 30, 2024
When did we lose the art of subtlety? Somewhere buried in the hour-and-a-half run time of “Nightbitch” is a truly fascinating story about motherhood, but the film’s reality is a sad case of no show...
April Klein, Arts & Life Editor
/ October 21, 2024
The screening for Jeff Daniel Phillips’ horror film “Cursed in Baja” was supposed to begin at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 15. As 8:03 p.m. rolled around, the director and star was still in the...
April Klein, Arts & Life Editor
/ October 14, 2024
Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man” is about its own creation. Around halfway through the film, the character of Ingrid Vold (Renate Reinsve) discusses the ethics of casting her theater production...
The end of the 2010s were the apex of superhero popularity: everything from “Avengers: Endgame” to “Shazam!” were at the forefront of pop culture’s interaction with cinema.
The first “Joker”...
DreamWorks Animation has had a mixed output of quality since their inception. Its hit-or-miss tendency hasn't stacked up against the competition within the animation industry, with Pixar and Disney swiping...
Jake Panek, Film & TV Beat Writer
/ September 30, 2024
Let’s cut to the chase: there has never been anything like “Megalopolis,” and there will never be anything like it. Maybe there shouldn’t be. After all, no Hollywood filmmaker has ever set the...
Jake Panek, Arts & Life Beat Writer
/ September 23, 2024
From the sight of a glowing canopy marquee, the smell of popcorn with real butter and the sound of an organ playing before the lights go down, one thing is immediately clear: going to the Music Box Theatre...
Jake Panek, Arts & Life Beat Writer
/ September 23, 2024
Activate only once. Stabilize every day. Switch every seven days, without exception. The one and only thing not to forget: you are one. You can’t escape from yourself.
These are the instructions given...