Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The Star Destroyer is poised over the holy city of Jedha like a dagger through the heart of the Force. The Empire needs Kyber crystals to power the newly constructed Death Star to, “Commence...
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Train to Busan is a zombie action film with a social bite
Zombies are the allegorical gift to global cinema that keeps on giving. They are in perpetual motion, always shambling or racing forward, the unread children of progress heralding the new world order...
Director Eve Marson Discusses Dr. Feelgood: Dealer or Healer?
Premiering at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival – and screening the upcoming Austin Film Festival on October 15th and 19th – Dr. Feelgood: Dealer or Healer? couldn’t be making the...
Queen Sugar is The Healing You Didn’t Know You Needed
Sawubona. Ngikhona. This is a South African greeting from the Zulu tribe, which roughly translated means “I see you” (Sawubona), I am here (Ngikhona). A deeper meaning to this greeting however,...
Robert Kenner and Eric Schlosser on Command and Control
Based on Eric Schlosser’s book of the same name, Command and Control marks the second time Peabody and Emmy-winning director Robert Kenner has worked with the NY Times bestselling author – the...
Scared thin: The obesity autopsy
At some point in the recent past, a roughly 60-year-old woman died in Southern California, and generously donated her body to science. 5,000 miles away, her body is about to be cut open for the...
Imperium explores racial politics in a new America
Imperium not only sideswipes you with its opening liberal quotation, but then sits you in the back of a car with Harry Potter dressed as an FBI agent. He waits nervously for a white van to deliver a...
Binding Truth: Revisiting Antidote Films vs. Laura Albert (aka JT LeRoy)
Jeff Feuerzeig’s Sundance-premiering documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story delves into the strange and winding tale of how a San Francisco musician and phone sex operator by the name of Laura...
Take Me Back: Why are we so obsessed with time travel?
Last year, the future arrived. At least, the future as predicted by Back to the Future Part II. And for the most part, it was pretty accurate. We now have video messaging, high quality pocket-sized...
The rise of female-driven porn: Pioneer Angie Rowntree on Sssh.com
Though Susan Sarandon likely has never heard of Angie Rowntree, for fans of female-focused porn she’s a household name. A longtime adult filmmaker (as is her husband Colin), Rowntree is the mind...