Like The Odyssey, Matt Johnson’s much anticipated biopic is an adaptation of a classic “manly man” text (Kitchen Confidential) that asks…
Film
The Los Angeles Woman’s Building was born out of a void, a vision … an urgency. It became a cultural…
This year’s theme for the 33rd New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) is “As the Stars Sow the Earth.” With…
Back in January, your intrepid Culture Vulture correspondent previewed the multi-genre 2026 South by Southwest film lineup — and then,…
The next best thing to springtime in Paris… as in the actual city, is Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New…
Activism and allyship can come in various forms and levels of effectiveness. The film, “White Man Walking” puts a spotlight…
The 32nd running of the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas recently announced its 2026 line-up of world…
1. WEAPONS It‘s not just the catchy hook and mystery of the premise (all but one of the students in…
Over the last few years the appetite for true-crime dramas seems insatiable. With the canvas for nefarious acts of all…
Although it has turned up at the backend of some top ten lists and honorable mention on a few others,…
Who wouldn’t want to be in Paris in 1959? The city is abuzz with creative energy. A revolution in art,…
In cinéma vérité, a style of documentary filmmaking popularized in the ’50s and ’60s by the Maysles Brothers (“Gimme Shelter,”…
Does the title “Nuremberg” summon a dust-coated memory of the 1961 film, “Judgement at Nuremberg,” that colors your predictions about…
Here’s a great example of a perfectly imperfect film imbued with cleverness, uniqueness, charm and poignancy delivered in an unexpected…