February 12, 2024 I had high hopes for “Lisa Frankenstein,” whose trailers promised a lead performance from Kathryn Newton (of the gleefully twisted body-switch horror-comedy “Freaky”)...
Bloody Escape -Jigoku no Tōsōgeki- is a film of tremendous highs and lows on nearly every level. On the one hand, its world is wonderfully over-the-top....
Alexander Payne’s latest movie, The Holdovers, which opens throughout Israel on February 8, is getting major Oscar buzz and it’s the kind of character-driven, low-key...
Shingo Matsamura’s gripping drama “The Lump In My Heart” about a student who is challenged by a life-changing diagnosis is based on a script adapted from...
Beautiful, meaningful but also too arty Patiparn Boontarig studied film and photography at Thammasat University in Thailand and completed the Asian Film Academy at the Busan...
Whereas his early films such as “Pushing Hands” and “The Wedding Banquet” often touch upon the crossroads between modernity and tradition, Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee found...
The father, a mouthy, aggressive leader – determined to win, destined to fail – promises his boys the world. In return, they’ll do something he never...
Point of ChangeDirected by Rebecca Coley89 min – United Kingdom, United States, Australia and IndonesiaUS Premiere – Subtitled “Point of Change” is a documentary following two...
5 Stars By Joseph Beyer | Feb. 10, 2024 Reading society like a book and reflecting our collective discrimination back at us, American Fiction is a...
Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s best works offer tender, illuminating portraits of the many moods of childhood. He’s a master of capturing the mundane, the specific everyday-ness...