Not much has been heard from Jacques Audiard's Dheepan since it won the Palme d'Or at last year's Cannes Film Festival, beating out pictures like Todd Haynes' Carol,
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Even by the standards of Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster's premise is a doozy: Colin Farrell plays a recently single schlub forced to report to the Hotel, where he
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In an appreciation published in The Guardian a few days after the death of J.G. Ballard, in April 2009, Martin Amis noted that the paragon of New Wave science fictio
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At long last, Whit Stillman has adapted a Jane Austen book. To be sure, he has touched on her work numerous times ? particularly in his 1990 directorial debut Metrop
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Although adult films are a signature cultural product of Southern California, there are a lot of misconceptions about how those films are made.Two weeks ago, Bree Mi
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In his archly empathetic comedies, Whit Stillman has long chronicled the uncertain ways in which young people of privilege launch themselves into worlds too in decli
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Las Vegas is home to ordinary people who take the bus to work like everyone else. In The Trust, the stylish new heist film from Alex and Benjamin Brewer, we get a br
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In his mid-late novel Galapagos, Kurt Vonnegut posited that, after millions of years of evolution, all that our simple, seal-like descendants will have in common wit
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Even when working from source material crafted by others, Terence Davies, like all singular filmmakers, imprints it with his DNA. At once solemn and lusty, Davies
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There's a scene during the first half of Bryan Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse that is so emotionally resonant, so well-put-together and so quiet that you might briefly f
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Watching first-time feature director Ben Chace's Sin Alas is like a stroll through the streets of Havana. You weave through crowds in a pedicab, hang out on stre
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