Welcome to LGBTQ+ Pride Month, the month of “hey, have you seen…?” and “did you ever read…?” Yes, we’ve all seen And the Band Played On and read The Celluloid Closet. My beef with a lot...
I have been a Guillermo del Toro fan for a long time. Not only are his movies intelligent and fantastic, but I feel like as a director he really gets me, me personally as an individual. Guillermo Del...
Good morning! In case you missed it, our most popular post last week was E. Young's exploration of the future of inclusive media. If you haven’t already, subscribe to the Global Comment podcast on...
As a piece of film, Deadpool represents a fascinating dichotomy. One entirely legitimate reading is that of a film by fifteen-year-olds, for fifteen-year-olds — filled with sex jokes, explosions,...
In May 1910 the funeral of King Edward VII drew together such a parade of European royalty that even the powerful Republican envoys of France and the United States had to suffer the indignity of...
Kitano Takeshi is back, movie lovers, and you better cover up that little pinky because he’s liable to chop it the f*ck right off. That’s right, he’s dusted down the black Mercedes and the...
Drive is slick. Spy Hunter slick. Every frame oozes class, bleeds cool. Newman cool, McQueen cool, O’Neal cool. Ryan Gosling is their heir apparent, a silent human machine, driving gloves and satin...
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" is out now in the UK, December in the US 1973. The opening scene of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” tastes like a can of ox-tail soup washed down with whiskey and 40 fags....
I tend to prefer reviewing documentary features to fiction, not because of any affinity for reality over fantasy, but because a bad doc just tends to be less painful to sit through than a mediocre...
I first encountered Michael Madsen’s “Into Eternity” at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam this past November. What struck me most about the film – a visually and...