Train Dreams: The Quiet Poetry of an Ordinary Life
At its core, Train Dreams is about transformation. Not just personal change, but societal evolution.
Szilárd Podmaniczky
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: A High-Wire Motherhood Ride
Welcome to A24’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, the darkly funny, intensely human, sometimes harrowing new film from Mary Bronstein.
Bugonia: Long Live the Mother Honey Bee
Bugonia is, in the end, a chamber play wrapped in a dark comedy and a visual manifesto about our reckless stewardship of the world we inhabit.
Goodbye June: A Family Drama Drowned in Sentiment
Goodbye June, the 2025 drama marking Kate Winslet’s directorial debut, takes that scenario as its heart: gathering a fractured family around a dying matriarch and attempting to stitch together decades of tension.
The Lost Bus: This Isn’t Just Another Bush Fire
Released this past September, The Lost Bus is based on real events from November 2018, when the Camp Fire tore through Paradise, California.
Sentimental Value: Home, Heartstrings, and Hidden Histories
One of the most compelling aspects of Sentimental Value is its meditation on home and personal legacy.
Orphan Review: The Weight of Memory
Orphan doesn’t fully blossom the way it could. The script’s emotional restraint and occasional heavy-handed dialogue keep us at a distance.
Peter Hujar’s Day: Friendship, Photography, and the Grit of New York
Peter Hujar’s Day is now playing in cinemas, so if you can, grab a ticket and experience it on the big screen.
Dominik Szoboszlai is to get a statue
Dominik Szoboszlai, captain of the Hungarian national football team and star midfielder for Liverpool FC, will soon be immortalized in wax.
Hallow Road Review: No Parent Wants to Be Their Child’s Monster
Hallow Road isn’t just a clever genre exercise – it’s also about the everyday anxieties of parenting today.
A Fish Called Wanda: A Classic Comedy with Bite
A Fish Called Wanda (1988) is now considered a comedy classic, directed by Charles Crichton, who came out of semi-retirement at the age of seventy-eight to take it on.
Weapons Review: Gone Baby Gone
Despite its R rating, Weapons is not particularly frightening. What it offers instead is an uneasy mix of horror, folklore, dark comedy, and old-school small-town drama.
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Literature Prize
László Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: The Grand Feast of a Tyrant – Greenaway’s film
Greenaway trusts the audience to engage visually and emotionally rather than merely following plot points.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story: Beyond the Cape
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is a masterclass in humanizing an icon. It refuses to turn Reeve into a pristine, unreachable superhero.
Julie Keeps Quiet Review: Breaking the Cycle
Julie Keeps Quiet is not about sensational revelations. It’s about the slow internal process of recognizing harm.
Diamonds Review: Can Women Be Cut Like Gems?
He tells them he wants to center his new project around women – because, in his words, “women are my real diamonds.”
September 5 Review: Tragedy, Live From Munich
September 5 is a gripping, grounded, and unsettling new film about the 1972 Munich massacre, where eleven Israeli athletes, coaches…
Goebbels and the Führer Review: A Heavy-Handed Recount of the Propaganda Machinery
Still, Goebbels and the Führer never quite decide whether it wants to be a character study, a historical record, or a lecture in propaganda.
Disclaimer Review: The Fiction We Call Reality
Disclaimer is currently streaming on Apple TV+. Viewer discretion advised, especially if you’ve got a secret you thought you buried for good.