Tuesday

20-05-2025 Vol 19

Category: Entertainment

The Unloved, Part 134: A Dandy in Aspic

Last month, I released my third book, “The Black Book: An Anthony Mann Reader.” (You can order your copy here.)…

Leonardo DiCaprio Will Lead Martin Scorsese’s Home; Apple and Todd Field to Produce

While it’s been very difficult of late to figure out what Martin Scorsese will follow Killers of the Flower Moon…

SXSW Review: The Threesome is an Ambitious, Flawed Rom-Com From Chad Hartigan

A big swing and nearly a miss, Chad Hartigan’s The Threesome is not without its charms even as it can…

SXSW Review: Rodney Ascher’s Ghost Boy is a Moving, Philosophical Documentary About Being Trapped

Directed by Rodney Ascher, best known for his horror-focused documentaries Room 237 and The Nightmare, Ghost Boy approaches its subject…

SXSW Film Festival 2025: Ghost Boy, The Secret of Me, Take No Prisoners

The doc program at SXSW reflects the left-of-center tone of both the festival and the city of Austin. Where else…

Red Meat: Steak ‘n Shake Goes Nazi

“Steak ‘n Shake has gone Nazi” isn’t a sentence I ever expected to see, much less type. But here we…

SXSW Film Festival 2025: It Ends, The Threesome, Caper

The SXSW Film Festival launched on Friday night with a star-studded premiere of the new Amazon Prime Video sequel “Another…

You Burn Me Review: Matías Piñeiro Muses on Sapphic Fragments and Unrequited Love

In You Burn Me, the Argentinian littérateur-filmmaker Matías Piñeiro uses his vintage Bolex camera like the iOS Notes app. Shooting…

More Than Rage: Rungano Nyoni and Susan Chardy on “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”

The absurdist drama “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” begins with one of the most indelible images to grace the silver…

Women Develop New Models of Heroism in Festival Docs

Everyone loves a hero. We’re awash with heroic stories in film and TV, decades into the comic-book-turned-movie blockbuster. In fact,…