The Beatles ‘Magical Mystery Tour’: Best Band, Worst Movie
The Beatles’ disaster of a pop musical, quirky, farce, road trip fantasy film that became Magical Mystery Tour begins with triumph.
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‘Route One/USA’ Drives Along History and Memory
In Robert Kramer’s documentary Route One/USA a fictional character rides shotgun in this road trip history and memory.
David Lynch Nailed and Skewered Us
On the passing of legendary director David Lynch, we share five films that nailed us in our hearts and guts and skewered us to our soft, squishy, emotional cores.
Sundance Film Festival 2025 Is at a Crossroads
While the Sundance Film Festival still uplifts under-the-radar films in an increasingly challenging market, its future may be in doubt.
The Best Film of 2024
Our Best Film of 2024 commemorates intriguing films, emerging voices and celebrated doyens searching for stranger narratives and new angles on existing legends.
‘Land of Gold’ Asks How Do You Raise a Brown Child in Today’s Hostile America?
Talking with Land of Gold director Nardeep Khurmi at Tribeca, he explains how his road trip drama serves as a badly needed “empathy machine” for divided America.
Sundance 2021: Poonpiriya’s ‘One for the Road’ Explores Brotherhood
Baz Poonpiriya's broken misfits in One for the Road are raw products of loneliness.
‘The Sisters Chase’ Gives Us a Protagonist Worth Taking the Journey With
Sarah Healy's The Sisters Chase introduces a flawed heroine for the ages in its breezy, affecting narrative.
David Lynch’s Exuberant Circus of Romance and Violence
Compared to David Lynch’s bleak take on fate and human nature in other films, Wild at Heart, is sunshine and sailboats, albeit with plenty of vivid sex, violence, and twisted humor.
Changing Lanes with John Waters
To most, hitchhiking is a terrifying risk taken by the desperate or insane. This makes it a perfect subject for John Waters’ latest book, Carsick.
The Great Depression-Era’s Forgotten Hollywood Man
Hollywood may have been deemed the “dream factory”, but the devastation of the Great Depression lurked just beneath the cinematic narrative.