film reviews
BAMcinemaFest Takeover: Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries) Talks Joanna Hogg’s Exhibition
Watching Joanna Hogg's new film, Exhibition, I was reminded of the pioneering landscape work of the artist Robert Irwin...
Actor/Screenwriter Randy Russell Talks Jan Ole Gerster’s A Coffee in Berlin
7:59 a.m. (All times are approximate.) (Soon-to-be-ex-) girlfriend’s place. Every day is like every other day, except for the ones that aren’t...
Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger) Talks Bobcat Goldthwait’s Willow Creek
A Generational Dispute Erupts Between Troma President Lloyd Kaufman and Troma Student Enterprise Observer Jaime Meyers...
David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) Talks David Michôd’s The Rover
I’ve been obsessing a bit over the fact that David Michôd’s new film, The Rover, takes place in the future. “10 Years After the Collapse”...
Amy Klein (Leda, Hilly Eye, Titus Andronicus) Talks Lukas Moodysson’s We Are the Best! and the Joy of Starting a Band
My first attempt to start a band ended in a group trip to TCBY. But before that, the four of us spent a nerve-wracking almost half-hour in my room...
Chad Hartigan (This is Martin Bonner) Talks Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s 22 Jump Street
I am, almost on principle, not interested in sequels. That wasn’t always the case, of course. When I was a teenager, I would dutifully go...
Jonathan Lisecki (Gayby) Talks Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past
X-Men: Days of Future Past has been out for less than three weeks and has already made over $600 million worldwide...
Screenwriter Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (Legally Blonde) Talks Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child
Where has Jenny Slate been all my life? Turns out, for the last few years she’s been doing great, steady work as a supporting actress on shows...
Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Ti West’s The Sacrament
The Sacrament can be described as a “found-footage” film. This term was popularized by The Blair Witch Project in 1999...
James Marsh (Man on Wire) Talks Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida
A couple of times in any given year, if I am lucky, I get to see a great film – best defined as a film alive with new possibilities for the medium...
Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Hollywood’s Prejudice Against the Western
When I read that A Million Ways to Die in the West was underperforming at the box office, my heart sank. Not because I liked the film...
Calvin Lee Reeder (The Rambler) on Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow
Fatalism is a funny thing, I know I wrestle with it. I feel a teaspoon of anger when someone tells me, “Everything happens for a reason.”











