Movies

The newest film from South Korean master Lee Chang-dong is just waiting to detonate. Instead, the plot of “Possible Love” simmers as a documentary project brings two families on different ends of a violent workers’ strike suppression together.  Director Lee’s films always have a slow burn (his most recent feature from 2018 was named “Burning,” […]

When the upper echelon of the filmgoing community convenes in the dog days of summer at the Telluride Film Festival, two questions are usually on everyone’s mind: Will the eventual Best Picture winner premiere here? And what is this year’s secret screening?  Telluride likes to keep the lineup under wraps until people start arriving in […]

Early on in Georgia Oakley’s “Sense and Sensibility,” the most recent adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved 1811 novel, Marianne Dashwood (played by Esmé Creed-Miles) finishes off a list of non-negotiables she’s looking for in a husband with the potent summation: “I require so much.” It’s played as a bit of joke — rightly, for even […]

During the reality TV boom of the aughts, many households likely heard the timbre of one man’s voice announcing his presence as he entered a room. “I’m Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC,” he would say, as he invited an unsuspecting child predator to take a seat at a kitchen counter. Shocked and surprised, the alleged […]

Grab your best slip skirt and fuzzy cardigan, because we are back, witches.  “Practical Magic,” the 1998 film directed by Griffin Dunne starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as Sally and Gillian Owens, sister witches burdened by a generational curse, was, like so many romantic comedies (then and now), a bit of a flop at […]

Jane Schoenbrun’s third feature, “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” is a fitting entrant in their filmography lineup. As a fairly new filmmaker who has begun to make a name for themself in the industry, Schoenbrun is interested in how gender and identity themes can be tied to the media we consume. Their first […]

American cheesemongers have a chip on their shoulders.  It’s not entirely unwarranted. American cheese (the category) is fairly young, all things considered, gaining traction only in the 1970s, and is often conflated with the giant bricks of yellowish-orange American cheese (the product) found in grocery stores across the country. “The Big Cheese,” a new documentary […]

Campgrounds have been a key location for horror movies throughout film history. There’s something about that specific type of location that brings teenagers — in the midst of their coming-of-age — together and allows whatever inhibitions they may have at that point in their lives to run free. But, of course, something is always lurking […]