In many ways, Asteroid City feels like a direct clapback to the A.I generated still-life of Wes Anderson’s style. Anderson reveals in his new film that it’s a lot more complicated than that and he wrestles with very real human questions that an A.I would never bother...
Fresh out of prison, wandering English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward grave-robber group who live off looting Etruscan tombs and cemeteries buried with treasure. However, Arthur isn’t really interested in this life anymore. As a result, his search is...
Seeking escape and adventure, two friends find their travels stumped by a lack of funds and prospects. To pay off their foreign exchange fees, the two join a 'work-to-travel' program which lands them in a remote Australian community. At first, they take it as a chance...
What happens if you take the Broadway musical--what has often been considered America’s most wholesome and charming form of theatre--but it was raunchy and proudly queer? That’s what Dicks: The Musical tries to answer in its short but song-filled comedy. The film...
In a natural evolution from his Oscar-nominated feature Les Miserables (not the musical), Mali born French auteur Ladj Ly goes back to his own neighborhood to tell the story of Baitment 5 (or Les Indesirables), a group of housing units made up of deteriorating...
Spring Break in Malia! That’s what the main characters of How to Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature, have on their mind. Under the colored strobe lights, the brisk beachside sun and a little emotional coercion, the group are set them with a poolside room...
To say Miyazaki has a new classic seems both par for the course and wholly unexpected. Given his career full of films that will go down as some of the most influential and important works in art there has never been a doubt the man is a genius visionary. Still, at the...
Fitting In is one of the most honest coming-of-age movies to be made in recent memory. As Lindy (Maddie Ziegler) heads into her sophomore year of high school, social tensions are rising. She has a boy that she really likes, named Adam (D’Pharoh Woon-A-Tai) and is...
Living a humble life, Hirayama seems to have mastered his daily routine. He knows exactly how to do his work as the custodian of the Tokyo public toilets, enjoys his collection of music while he drives, showers at one of the public baths, has a small meal, and then...