There are some films that resist the urge to introduce themselves or announce their themes. Instead, they wait quietly and…
Browsing: Drama
Written by Brandon Newman and Directed by Clarito Zapanta, “Love & Other Crimes” (2025) is a crime/thriller that has a…
Watching “Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream” is the kind of experience that leaves you sitting with a knot in your stomach long…
Horor studios often don’t know how to market their better films. Year after year, genuinely bold, and unnerving films slip…
I’ve always been a sucker for stories about misfit teenagers, the kind who see the world pressing down on them…
“In the Mood for Love” in the Shadows of Postwar Saigon. It’s a title I offer with full awareness of…
We don’t talk enough about the women who spend their lives holding families together from afar—working in strangers’ homes, raising…
Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” is a fizzing, audacious remix of Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low,” part procedural thriller, part…
Filmmaker Alexander Seltzer crafts perfect horror, sacrificing big budget effects for exceptional writing and cinematography. I loved his previous film…
Through her latest short films, “The Stand” and “Little Bird,” Vietnamese-American filmmaker Oanh-Nhi Nguyen pulls focus to the hardships faced…