The King’s Warden was released in February 2026 and has already become one of the most successful movies in Korean history. That’s possibly because it tells a story already known to most Korean schoolchildren, like how American kids know about George Washington and the cherry tree. A boy king in …
It’s 2014 and Nadia (Monia Chokri) and Céline (Ella Rumpf) were recently legally able to get married in France. Hooray! And anyone who’s ever heard a playground chant knows what comes after love and marriage. Nadia is pregnant thanks to IVF and a Danish sperm donor, but Céline will have …
To paraphrase a great actor, we need art. We live in a world where everything is increasingly financialized, and things are often valued only by what they can return to our pockets, but this fixation on the monetary ignores the richness of our souls and hinders our processing of difficult …
It makes no sense when a movie spoils itself through its own marketing. The central relationship in Washed Up has a twist that you probably haven’t been able to avoid! This is a giant mistake, because most of the humour and a great deal of the charm comes in how …
If you think Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo’s aesthetics will get more refined after his films have, over the years, preferred a more digitized (read: pixelated, desaturated, out-of-focus) aesthetic, think again! His latest film, within a corpus of slow cinema experiments, What Does That Nature Say to You, contains many of …
We first meet Rachel (Camila Morrone) and Nicky (Adam DiMarco) on their wedding day. The couple are meeting at the end of the aisle, but it hardly looks like a joyous day. She pulls up her veil, a look of terror on her face, something very bad is going to …
Someday a movie in which a group of teenagers throw a mock funeral for a hamster, complete with stone-faced pallbearers carrying a small coffin past hordes of wailing kids dressed up to the nines, will deserve a bad review, but today is not that day. Black Burns Fast has an …
Throughout the social formation of the Americas, religiosity is fundamental to understanding the rooted traditions of the multiple Latin cultures. In a sense, the moral compass, the ethics, and the comprehension of the world reflect the influences of the Portuguese and Spanish Catholics, who, through the genocidal project, spread the …
Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover arrives as Frankenstein tales are having a real cultural moment. With Guillermo del Toro’s film released last autumn (and picking up three Oscars) and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride currently in cinemas, Glowicki’s picture as director, co-writer (with Ben Petrie, who also stars) and star may not …
A clip has recently done the rounds of British social media of a well-known pundit asking a woman who she plans to vote for in an upcoming election. The woman says she doesn’t know, but she certainly won’t be voting for a particular candidate who she recently saw leaving a …
Whenever the names of 87North Productions or 87Eleven Entertainment are linked to a new project, my interest immediately spikes. After all, we’re talking about the teams that redefined modern action cinema with the John Wick franchise and continued to leave their mark on films like Nobody, Violent Night, or The …
Content warning: descriptions of incredibly graphic violence from the start Sometimes a movie makes it apparent why we do the work we do. For example, if someone stabbed me in the shoulder, twisted the knife, and then stomped on the knife while it was still in my body, I might …
Like a large portion of the audience, I walked into the theater without any familiarity with the literary work by Andy Weir that the film attempts to adapt — yes, the majority of viewers have never read, played, or known the source material on the vast majority of these occasions. …
Sometimes when you get good at keeping secrets, you can start to lose track of what the truth even is. In her new series Imperfect Women, Annie Weisman examines the story of three best friends confronting the secrets they kept that may have led to the murder of one of …
It has taken decades, but Patricia Cornwell’s iconic literary character, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, has finally been brought to life. Nicole Kidman takes on the role of the unrelenting chief medical examiner trying to prove that the case that made her career wasn’t based on misinformation. Scarpetta is more than your …
I went into the screening of Reminders of Him with a very specific curiosity: how would an actress like Maika Monroe (Longlegs), who has such a solid career in genre cinema — specifically horror — behave in a role of exposed vulnerability, typically molded to pull at the heartstrings of …
On a spaceship where human fertility has been artificially halted, nobody is expecting to find a human baby left on their doorstep. But that is exactly what happens in Olvia Waite’s Nobody’s Baby. Now it’s up to Dorothy Gentleman to find out who this baby is, who his parents are, …
“It’s a dating app for dead bodies”. Yep, that’s the main concept that drives Sarah G. Pierce’s debut novel, For Human Use. Basically, a charismatic (arguably) guy convinces the world that in order to prove you’re truly well adjusted, you need to enjoy spending time hanging out with dead bodies. For some reason, Tom …
Re-released for its 30th anniversary last year, Martin Campbell’s 1995 super spy movie GoldenEye looks and feels particularly vintage, like something you’d watch on a holiday. The seventeenth title in the James Bond franchise, the film introduced a new 007 in Pierce Brosnan, who would end up playing the part …
In the Brazilian cinema history, there are classic examples of road trip films. One of them is Iracema by Jorge Bodansky and Orlando Senna, a time capsule on the Northern region of the country during the military dictatorship. Regionally, a landmark of the sensorial cinema in the country is Viajo …