Hitchcock Toys with Filmgoers in ‘My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock’
Filmmaker Mark Cousins’ My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock uses provoking ideas to encourage expanding our understanding of the works of this 20th-century giant of cinema.
Filmmaker Mark Cousins’ My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock uses provoking ideas to encourage expanding our understanding of the works of this 20th-century giant of cinema.
Despite an egregious running time and padded plot, the (maybe) conclusion to Keanu Reeves’ series, John Wick: Chapter 4, still serves up some of the original’s delightful weirdness.
Like pride before a fall, the psychological drama God’s Creatures critiques the sentimentality of blood and the tribal mindset of loyalty above conscience.
The 95th Academy Awards laid bare a political contradiction, and an attempt to fix a lack of previous recognition for Jamie Lee Curtis was controversial. But is Hollywood still just flirting with the change it needs to make?
French true crime adaptation The Night of the 12th (La nuit du 12) is a response to the fraught relationship between men and women, and the detective as metaphor.
Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut Creed III escapes the shadow of Apollo, Rocky, and Drago and finds new ground for Donnie and the Creed spin-off series to build their own legacy.
Juleen Compton’s little-known ’60s films, Truffaut-effected Stranded and Mekas’-affirming The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean, have been lovingly restored thanks to her work ethic in a completely different field.
Premiering at Sundance 2023, horror-thriller Run Rabbit Run bridges the fantastical or imaginary and the horror of being human.
The 1954 Hollywood adventure film Secret of the Incas may have a whiff of Indiana Jones about it to contemporary viewers, but it’s better than expected for a film that’s almost been buried in a tomb.
At the dark heart of M3GAN is the loneliness we fill with things because we don’t know what else to do. It conjures the horror of anti-materialism.
French New Wave director Jean-Denis Bonan is among the cursed and damned filmmakers – revered by a few, reviled by most. His formerly shunned A Woman Kills (1968) slips out of the shadowy margins and appears for modern viewers.
In genre-busting sci-fi Everything Everywhere All At Once, the multiverse is not a genre but a metaphor that invites audiences to think about the complexities and politics of genres.