Calvin Reeder’s “The A-Frame” is chock-full of loaded ideas that don’t quite coalesce. A film about confronting death and a lurid fantasy of escaping its grasp, its story of terminal illness has the potential to be intensely personal.…
Actor and producer Griffin Dunne grew up in New York and Los Angeles with the glitterati all around. His father, Dominick Dunne, a television executive and film producer when Dunne was young, liked to hobnob with the rich and famous. His…
In Nnamdi Asomugha's film, co-written and executive produced by Mark Duplass, a man trying to protect his family becomes the suspect in a menacing police investigation.
It begins with a point of view shot from a car driving up to a remote country homestead. The frame is tight, perhaps even square, giving the image the appearance of an old, faded Kodachrome slide. It’s eerie. There’s a girl playing in her…
Director King Hu revolutionized the Hong Kong cinema with the release of Come Drink With Me in 1966. The wuxia film was a major hit locally and around the world. People couldn’t get enough of the dynamic swordfights. The film got the Shaw…
It’s heartening that we have now reached a point where transgender issues have risen to the level of awareness that a film like 20,000 Species of Bees can find an audience. In focus here is the process of self-discovery that many trans…
Mumbai: The much-anticipated pan-India movie, Kalki 2898 AD, starring Prabhas, is creating a lot of buzz online. Directed by Nag Ashwin, the film is set to premiere on June 27. The makers have kept fans excited with intriguing updates and…
Tuesday (2023) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Daina Oniunas-Pusic and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lola Petticrew, Arinzé Kene, Leah Harvey, Ellie James, Taru Devani, Jay Simpson, David Sibley, Nathan Amzi, Justin Edwards,…
McVeigh, in his letters and other writings, was quite articulate about what he thought was happening to America, and I have to assume that he sometimes voiced those thoughts, at length, in words. But that never happens in the film, because…
An ambitious amateur physicist makes some big promises to a desperate cancer patient in Calvin Lee Reeder’s latest feature, The A-Frame. Well known for his lo-fi avant garde nightmare features The Oregonian and The Rambler, Reeder steps…
When you’re done doing what I’m doing – humming the “Bad Boys” song in your head – take a trip to the local cinema and say hello to Lowery and Burnett. You won’t be disappointed.
Guillem Morales’ adaptation of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play The Wasp is an unsettling drama-thriller that delves into the complexities of its characters with precision in a way that is chilling and engrossing. The film stars Naomie Harris,…
In “Made in Ethiopia,” directors Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan take the macro issue of China’s influence in Africa and present it provocatively through the micro lens of its effect on a few Chinese and Ethiopian individuals striving for a…