The road is best shared with an old friend. Be it a drinking buddy, a childhood companion, or an old lover—any trip down the dusty trail of memory is one that must be shared. For successful Bangkok architect Thana (Thaneth … Continue reading POP AYE
Depending on whom you talk to, anywhere between 75 and 90% of all silent film is lost forever. The vast majority of everything produced between the advent of moving images in 1894 to the proliferation of synchronized sound in 1929 … Continue reading DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME
Elsa Dorfman isn’t interested in your soul; your surface is more than enough. And since the 1960s, Dorfman has photographed those surfaces with love and care from her studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And in Errol Morris’ documentary, The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s … Continue reading THE B-SIDE: ELSA DORFMAN’S PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY
Diane (Emmanuelle Devos) is hurting. Her young son, Luc, was killed in a hit-and-run. And with no one to take responsibility, no one to blame, grief has driven her deep inside herself. Diane pulls back from the world, from her … Continue reading MOKA
There’s no hyperbole in calling War for the Planet of the Apes the best of the franchise, just as there is no overstating the series’ contribution to motion capture performance. With each Apes installment, the technology gets a little better, but what makes War special is … Continue reading WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
Scientific people know very well that time is only a kind of space. We can move forward and backward in time just as we can move forward and backward in space. —H.G. Wells, The Time Machine Like most, this story begins … Continue reading HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost Buster (Rami Malek) just looks like he was born tired. Stuck working nights at a last-option hotel … Continue reading BUSTER’S MAL HEART
Taken as a whole, 2017 at the movies has left me somewhat dismayed. This is at least partly due, I think, to the overlong award season. With each passing year, this toxic notion of competition clouds the waters and does … Continue reading 2017: The Best So Far…
A long time ago—May 25, 1977, to be precise—in a Hollywood far, far away, Star Wars took cinematic hearts and minds by storm. Later subtitled Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Wars was a ragtag space opera about a young farmer and two mercenaries trying … Continue reading Star Wars at 40: A Space Opera in Eight Films, Five Directors, and Two Studios
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