Review: La Chimera
Filmmakers have long understood cinema to be a magical form of art. From the technological and artistic innovations that allowed sound and image ...
Tag: Italy
Featured
Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: The Way of the Dragon
[Welcome to Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: a bi-weekly column dedicated to retrospectives on the martial arts films I grew up watching. We’ll be ...
Movies
Review: The Truffle Hunters
In the early morning, amidst the forests of Northern Italy, under gray skies and the fog of a day beginning, there unfolds the ...
Movies
Pixar and Disney announce Luca, a new coming of age story releasing next summer
Although we’re still waiting on the release of their next feature Soul, the prolific master animators at Pixar aren’t slowing down a breath, ...
News
Coronovirus precautions halt Mission: Impossible 7’s shoot
The spread of COVID-19, popularly known as coronavirus, is becoming a bit of a sideshow. Deadly serious in many cases, international fumbling of ...
Review: Dogman
Italian cinema is one of my biggest holes as a critic. When it comes to seeing movies from across the globe, I’ve seen ...
Reviews
Review: Fire at Sea
Sometimes I’ll see a movie and that makes me shake my head and say, “Okay, yeah, I get it”. These sorts of movies ...
Reviews
Review: Argento’s Dracula 3D
There was a time when “directed by Dario Argento” meant something wonderful. There’d be wild visual play, inventive deaths, remarkable set pieces, and ...
Reviews
Fantasia Review: Ritual: A Psychomagic Story
Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of my favorite filmmakers. A sure cult figure, there’s an undeniable pull to El Topo, Santa Sangre, or even ...
Features
Flixclusive Interview: Matteo Garrone (Reality)
One of Italy’s leading filmmakers, Matteo Garrone won the Cannes Grand Prix for his film Gomorrah in 2008, a towering look at organized crime ...
Review: Reality
The alternate reading of the Pandora’s box myth is that hope is the worst possible thing that could have been left in that ...
Reviews
Film Comment Selects Review: Dormant Beauty
[For the next week we’ll be looking at some of the movies playing at the Film Comment Selects series, featuring films hand selected ...