MOVIE
-
Mare’s Nest review – a burnished gem from a…
Although their budgets and cinematic ethos are markedly different, there really aren’t that many degrees of separation between British experimental…
Read More » -
Scary Movie review – belated return of the…
Like an irksome stinging insect nonetheless vital to controlling excess animal population, the Scary Movie franchise serves a worthy function in…
Read More » -
A T&M Cannes Film Festival Special #2
A T&M Cannes Film Festival Special #2 On Truth & Movies this week, Hannah Strong reports live from the Cannes…
Read More » -
Inside Chronically Online: a big-screen…
The British Film Institute was following a similar trail of hyperlinks. Kitty Robertson, an assistant curator at the BFI National Archive,…
Read More » -
Backrooms review – sincerely disturbing and…
Western horror cinema tends to come in waves: 80s slashers, 90s meta-comedies, 2000s torture porn, 2010s found footage, and most…
Read More » -
Hacks was always a love story
Hacks contains multitudes; at once it’s a giddy comedy, an unpredictable drama, and an endlessly fruitful sitcom, but more than anything, Hacks…
Read More » -
Power Ballad review – amiable musical comedy…
The name of the film is Power Ballad; the name of its lead character is Rick Power. Is there anything…
Read More » -
Tuner review – woefully off-key
Cinema has the power to shape perceptions of entire groups of people. People with AIDS are Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (1993);…
Read More » -
The End of It – first-look review
Despite an intriguing sci-fi premise, Maria Martínez Bayona’s feature debut is a tonally mismatched and unintentionally comedic slog. As tradition…
Read More » -
The Dreamed Adventure – first-look review
In Valeska Grisebach’s last film, from 2017, a German laborer in Bulgaria to work on an infrastructure project explores the hillsides…
Read More »