Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) Movie Review – A Meditative Poem on Cinema and a Type of Cinematic Experience
“Cinema is gone. The cinema I grew up with and that I’m making, it’s gone. The theater will always be…
For Your Consideration: Sita Sings The Blues [2008]
My favourite moment in Nina Paley’s audacious and wildly funny animated satire comes when the shadow puppets strip down mythical…
The Devil’s Backbone [2001]: Del Toro’s Gothic Allegory
“What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead…
The Eagle Huntress (2016) Documentary Review – A Feel-Good Documentary Led by an Incredibly Charismatic Girl
The vast, pristine location of the Mongolian Altai Mountains in Otto Bell’s inspirational documentary, The Eagle Huntress [2016), looks untouched…
Get Out (2017) Movie Review: Stay Woke or Sink to the Floor
The horror genre itself has suffered much in the last few decades, at the hands of badly written films and…
Top 25 Criminally Underrated Films Of 2016
Everyone saw films that surfaced well on whatever platform their boat sailed to. But there were some rather unfamiliar films that…
The President (2014) Movie Review – A Harrowing Drama on the Endless Cycle of Subjugation and Violence
Human rights activist and renowned Iranian film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s The President (2014) opens in highly fascinating manner. A dictator of…
[WATCH] Video Essay Explores The Generation Gap in Two Mike Nichols’s Classics
In his latest video Essay, Luís Azevedo of Beyond The Frame explores the generation gap between the two Mike Nichols…