Tobin Bell returns as the twisted killer Jigsaw in this back-to-basics sequel, which sees him exact revenge on a group of medical scammers preying on the terminally ill. Twenty years ago, Australian filmmakers/sickos Leigh Whannell and James Wan struck gold when they came up with the shockingly simple concept of Saw. Two men with chained […]
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In what could be his final film, Ken Loach fixes his gaze on a pub landlord in a town reckoning with a new population of Syrian refugees. In Which Side Are You On?, his 1984 documentary on the miners’ strike, Ken Loach focuses on the public spaces, the clubs and halls, where the miners and […]
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Romanian director Cristian Mungiu returns with a superb social realist western with its finger on the erratic pulse of Europe. If Europe were a person, it would be in dire need of emergency medical attention. So says Romanian New Wave lynchpin Cristian Mungiu, whose quietly scathing and precision-tooled new work administers an extremely thorough examination […]
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Ten years ago at New York Fashion Week, Eden Miller anxiously stood backstage, her spirit stirring with excitement as six curvy women, including Precious Lee, prepared to strut down the runway in her designs. Not only was this Miller’s first time showing at the exclusive, semi-annual event, an accomplishment many designers dream of—she was also […]
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Nicolas Cage plays an otherwise unremarkable college professor who unexpectedly finds himself appearing in peoples’ dreams in Kristoffer Borgli’s latest satire. Already this decade Kristoffer Borgli has established himself as a satirist of the branded self. His calling card short Former Cult Member Hears Music for the First Time took a quite savage swing at […]
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The impish Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva returns with a sharp thriller about an influencer who turns detective after a filmmaker he’s involved with goes missing. It’s been too long since the Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva has been in our midst, and he returns with a palm-sweating satirical comedy in which the most heinous, grotesque social […]
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Neither Taylor Swift nor Selena Gomez are strangers to their drama making headlines, whether it’s due to a breakup or a public feud. But throughout their careers, they’ve never stopped publicly supporting each other. Since becoming friends while both dating Jonas brothers in 2008, they’ve danced at awards shows, performed onstage together, and most recently, […]
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Babak Jalali’s intimate dramedy strikes a delicate balance between melancholy and wryness in its reflection on the migrant experience. The city of Fremont in California has the largest Afghan population in the US – some 30,000 call the city home, leading to its affectionate nickname of Little Kabul. For Donya (Anaita Wali Zada), a twenty-something […]
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A rare, 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Morocco late Friday, becoming the most powerful quake to hit the Middle Eastern country in 120 years. The seismic event was centered in the High Atlas mountainous region south of the city of Marrakesh and was felt in coastal cities, such as Casablanca. Photos and videos show ancient structures collapsing […]
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Less a swansong and more a heronsong from the Japanese maestro Hayao Miyazaki, a mystical and ambitious message of hope for the future. The Boy and the Heron may or may not be Hayao Miyazaki’s last film. The 82-year-old Studio Ghibli head previously announced his retirement after completing Princess Mononoke in 1997, Spirited Away in […]
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