The straight-to-streaming rom-com market provides something for every circle of hell. Whatever cloying cliché you can imagine has been imagined ad infinitum in varying levels of incompetent, illogically predictable scripts populated by humanoid figurines ... See more
Is it true, as the animated fable that opens The Last Viking asserts, that, “if everyone is broken, no one is broken?” That’s the timely premise of Anders Thomas Jensen’s latest black comedy. Written and directed by Jensen, the basic conceit, on some leve... See more
Opens Friday: The House with Laughing Windows at AFI Silver AFI’s Bleak Week programming doesn’t officially begin until June 12, but this grimly atmospheric giallo from 1976 qualifies as a head start. Lino Capolicchio (best known for The Garden of the Fin... See more
Forget about the uncut version of The Magnificent Ambersons; for a certain grade of cinephile, the holy grails of cinema are the eight — count- ‘em — eight features Andy Milligan made in the 1960s that were once thought completely lost. In the past severa... See more
How can one chronicle Filipino band Eraserheads without noting that they took their name from the David Lynch film? Director Maria Diane Ventura, ex-wife of frontman Ely Buendia and producer of the act’s 2022 reunion concert in the Philippines, has assemb... See more
