volunteering
A personal appeal: Let's fight together
Do you live in a state that's NOT a swing state? Here's a chance to make a difference
Mark Pritchard
filmmaking
Review: My First Film (2024)
Metafictional meditation on a young filmmaker's failure and her way back in to filmmaking
Argentina
Essay: El affaire Miu Miu (2024)
A sort of coda to one of the best films of 2022
Argentina
On "La Flor"
This 14-hour epic from El Pampero Cine is a coup de cinema. It's also very watchable
Jupiter
Review: Slingshot (2024)
Four characters trapped together; some imaginary
private island
Review: Blink Twice (2024)
Everybody say 'Making memories!'
Istanbul
Review: Crossing (2024)
In this beautiful Mubi release, a Georgian auntie and a restless teenager search across Istanbul for her niece, aided by a trans activist
dying languages
Kneecap (2024)
Kneecap (2024) Written and directed by Rich Peppiatt Co-written by the members of Kneecap Excuse the weird-looking perspective in the image above, but the IMDB site where I usually find publicity stills that I can use in a review offers up a single image for “Kneecap.” A lot of these
Philadelphia
Review: Trap (2024)
Let's twist again, like you did last summer
movies of 2023
Review: The Good Half (2023)
Nick Jonas stars as a young writer who returns home for his mother's funeral
Jane Fonda
Essay: The Chase (1966)
Star-packed small-town potboiler that's part fugitive thriller, part Peyton Place, with some 1960s racial tensions included
drag
Review: National Anthem (2023)
A beautiful, if plotless, debut feature about a homestead of queer rodeo performers