Amanda Kramer’s created a thoroughly campy and celebratory ode to queerness that stands as both a timely political statement and a genuinely well-crafted piece of independent filmmaking.
Nicole Veneto
Film Review: “Pearl” — A Star is Born
Move over Patrick Bateman, there’s a new axe-wielding psychopath for impressionable young cinephiles to project themselves onto in town.
Film Review: “Babysitter” — The Teaches of Peaches
Babysitter tackles the ambiguities of misogyny head-on in a 35 mm sugar rush of magical suburban realism.
Film Review: “Bodies Bodies Bodies” — Seven Little Influencers
This horror comedy traps a cadre of privileged, narcissistic Zennials in a whodunit murder mystery and lets their internet-addled delusions of grandeur tear them apart in the paranoid fallout.
Film Review: “Nope” – Behold, the Great American Spectacle
Nope, Jordan Peele’s highly anticipated third feature, is an awe-inspiring marvel about our own unrelenting obsession with spectacle.
Film Review: “Medusa” — “She’s Beautiful and She’s Screaming”
Brazilian director Anita Rocha Da Silveira’s latest film is a genre-spliced howl of feminine fury in the face of right-wing Christian conservatism.
Film Review: “The Sadness” — They’re Coming to Get You, Karen
The Sadness is an especially brutal film about societal collapse and how public health crises like COVID-19 amplify whatever savage impulses lie dormant within us.
Film Review: “Crimes of the Future” — Let Them Eat Microplastics
If you find David Cronenberg’s cinematic philosophy on bodily abjection/assimilation and the artistic process intellectually stimulating, then you’re in for an intoxicating return to form from the man whose name is synonymous with the body horror genre.
Film Review: “Neptune Frost” – Power to the People
This Afrofuturist cyberpunk musical is a sprawling political manifesto poetically transcribed into a visual symphony of music and images.
Film Commentary: “Inland Empire” — The Dreamer Who Dreams
David Lynch’s Inland Empire is a provocative challenge to filmmaking as a medium of visual storytelling that’s largely gone unmatched in the sixteen years since its initial release.