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Film, TV & Music • Independent • Rotten Tomatoes-Certified • Forming the Future • Est. 2014

IFFR Review: Harshad Nalawade’s ‘Follower’

By Dipankar Sarkar on February 7, 2023

Video Sleuths Press Rewind in ‘Kim’s Video’

By Greg Carlson on February 6, 2023

‘Millenium Mambo’ and the Four Elements of Mise-en-Scène

By Q.V. Hough on February 2, 2023

IFFR Review: Don Palathara’s ‘Family’

By Dipankar Sarkar on January 31, 2023

Book Review: Chris Palmer’s ‘The Fresh Prince Project: How the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Remixed America’

By Q.V. Hough on January 30, 2023

Review: Beth de Araújo’s Gripping ‘Soft & Quiet’

By Greg Carlson on January 30, 2023

Cannes Film Festival Review: Noah Baumbach’s ‘The Meyerowitz Stories’

By Benedict Seal on May 26, 2017

“Like a classic stand-up comedian, Baumbach is far more interested in observation than hot button provocation.”

Cannes Film Festival Review: Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Beguiled’

By Benedict Seal on May 25, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

“‘The Beguiled’ plays out exactly as one might expect and never really stretches beyond its contained premise.”

Cannes Film Festival Review: John Cameron Mitchell’s ‘How to Talk to Girls at Parties’

By Benedict Seal on May 24, 2017

“‘How to Talk to Girls at Parties’ is spirited but doesn’t have anything new to say.”

Cannes Film Festival Review: Laurent Cantet’s ‘The Workshop’

By Benedict Seal on May 23, 2017

“Like ‘Visages, villages’ and ‘Claire’s Camera,’ ‘The Workshop’ continues a Cannes 2017 trend for the unmatched power of creation and artistic expression, and this film reaches to darker depths than those tales.”

Cannes Film Festival Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘Before We Vanish’

By Benedict Seal on May 23, 2017

“More than a stage play, the high concept and tonal spasms make ‘Before We Vanish’ feel like an adaptation of a cult manga.”

Cannes Film Festival Review: Kaouther Ben Hania’s ‘Beauty and the Dogs’

By Benedict Seal on May 22, 2017

“The technical achievement here is considerable, though there is nothing that can match the surprise, and resultant thrill, of watching the opening scene play out.”

Cannes Film Festival Review: Agnès Varda and JR’s ‘Visages, villages’

By Benedict Seal on May 20, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

“Between the enlightened creators, the immensely intimate artwork and the fabulous people they meet, there is never a dull moment in this beautiful piece of cinema.”

Cannes Film Festival Review: Vanessa Redgrave’s ‘Sea Sorrow’

By Benedict Seal on May 19, 2017

“While ‘Sea Sorrow’ is cinematically stunted, it is clearly made with great passion and belief.”

Vague Visages Is FilmStruck: Bill Arceneaux on Woody Allen’s ‘Bananas’

By Bill Arceneaux on May 18, 2017

“Maybe the best way to counter ridiculousness is with ridiculousness.”

Review: Azazel Jacobs’ ‘The Lovers’

By Erica Peplin on May 18, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

“According to Jacobs, romantic love is a negative equation wherein passion plus time equals complacency.”

‘Twin Peaks’ and Beyond the Alphabet

By Niles Schwartz on May 17, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

“The failure of language permeates ‘Twin Peaks,’
an abundance of verbiage disintegrating under the looming and ageless presence in the woods.”

‘Stardust Memories’: Woody Allen’s Comic Catharsis

By Jeremy Carr on May 15, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

“He may be suggesting that emotional and social anxiety is widespread and prevalent, but the key distinction is that not everyone can translate these uncertainties into comedy gold.”

EP Review: Ultrviolence ‘Forty Knives’

By Leslie Hatton on May 12, 2017

“Throughout ‘Forty Knives,’ Jespersen’s voice betrays his emotions and listening to him sing often feels like sneaking peeks at his diary.”

The Joke Is on Us: Rick Alverson’s ‘The Comedy’

By Justin Micallef on May 12, 2017

“Audiences aren’t meant to hate Swanson, but to understand him and people like him, along with ourselves.”

Review: ‘Like Jagged Teeth’ – Betty Rocksteady’s Supernatural Bad Dream Novella

By Mike Thorn on May 11, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

“By constantly re-emphasizing Jacalyn’s inability to confront the undeniable horror of the unfolding scenario, Rocksteady achieves a powerfully oneiric tone throughout.”

Devious Dialogues: Anya Stanley and Mike Thorn on the ‘Alien’ Franchise

By Anya Stanley on May 10, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

Devious Dialogues: A Horror-Themed Column by A.M. Novak and Mike Thorn

Book Review: Gender and Genre in Aaron J. French’s ‘Festival’

By Mike Thorn on May 8, 2017 • ( 3 Comments )

“On the levels of craft and form, this is undoubtedly the work of a skilled writer.”

Album Review: Jen Gloeckner ‘VINE’

By Leslie Hatton on May 5, 2017

“Even though Gloeckner recorded ‘VINE’ in her Dubuque, Iowa bedroom, there is nothing bare bones or lo-fi about it; her passion for her art is obvious and impressive.”

Vague Visages Short Stories: Speaking of Ghosts by Mike Thorn

By Mike Thorn on May 5, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

Vague Visages Short Stories #6: Speaking of Ghosts by Mike Thorn (Calgary, Alberta)

Pain and Three Kinds of Death in Dustin LaValley’s ‘A Soundless Dawn’

By Mike Thorn on May 3, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

“Above all, it’s about style. LaValley plays fast and loose with grammar and punctuation, paying mind to cadence and tone.”

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