Against a backdrop of civilisational collapse, John Krasinski’s passion project reflects upon the permanent things underlying our shared lives
Category: Essay
Crazy World, the newest film from Uganda’s Wakaliwood studio, entrenches them as one of the most exciting loci of contemporary cinema
Céline Sciamma’s film blends art and ecstasy and reaches towards utopia
A western that speaks to our current culture wars torn between the charismatic, problematic past and the ambitious, revisionist present
Sabotaged and overshadowed by a resurgent Disney Animation, this forgotten fairy-tale empowered at least one person
Technology and inner life collide—and unite—in Eugene Kotlyarenko’s Wobble Palace
Do the Old Guard of American filmmakers have anything left to say? More than most, it turns out
Faces tell us what we need to know in Ry Russo-Young’s Before I Fall (2017)
Delving deep into the hidden psychology, theology, and philosophy of a unique Southern Gothic serial
As moral panic around fantasy violence flares up, Quentin Tarantino argues for a philosophy of cathartic, ethical screen violence via the charisma of Brad Pitt