Kiyoshi Kurosawa turns a 16th-century samurai siege into a whodunit and anti-war parable, using a murder mystery inside a besieged castle to ask what violence does to the people trapped inside systems built on it.
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Jane Schoenbrun’s “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” reimagines the slasher franchise as a sexy, strange, and deeply queer fever dream about desire, dysphoria, and transformation, led by standout performances from Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson.
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Director Rob Alicea’s thriller Serena uses AI less as a futuristic boogeyman and more as a vehicle for manipulation and our increasingly blurry relationship with reality, anchored by Andi Matichak and Steven Strait’s performances.
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At first glance, Ronny A. Sosa’s Bōru appears to be another sports documentary chronicling Dominican baseball players chasing professional careers around the world. While baseball certainly serves as the film’s entry point, Sosa’s documentary is more than that.
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In Ryan Dutter and John Dierre’s Meta Take One, an indie filmmaker is so consumed by finishing his film that a guerrilla shoot spirals into real violence — and he barely notices. Shot in stark 16mm black-and-white, it’s a Lynchian descent into artistic obsession.
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There is the foundation of an engaging neo-Western buried somewhere inside Adam Seidel’s Anywhere.
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As a 12-year-old, I somehow convinced my Dad to take me to see Set It Off. “Wait, how old are
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I’ve seen many movies over the last two years. Nothing I saw inspired me with enough words to express how
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While the details of Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Jesus Christ are debated, Judas goes down in history as one of
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I’ve had my many run-ins with cyberbullying. The thought has, and will probably continue to cross my mind, that if
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I participated in a sleep study six years ago. It was a claustrophobic experience. All sorts of tubes and wires
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Capitalism kills in the new Chino Moya apocalyptic film Undergods. In Moya’s universe, men and women are equally terrible because
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Separated from the Suicide Squad and dumped by the Joker, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), wants to move on but is
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Last week, The Nerds of Color was invited to join other journalists for a special intimate lunch with William Jackson
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Northern California is where the breakdown of American society begins in Jordan Peele’s second feature film Us. You can be
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There is no question the work of writer and activist James Baldwin is timeless and timely because no matter how
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Barry Jenkins’ new film If Beale Street Could Talk is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by
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New York City isn’t the diverse utopia many think it is. If there is any system that shows just how
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On February 28, 2017, I saw a 15-minute sneak peak of the Hollywood adaptation of Ghost in the Shell. From the announcement of the project to today, this has always been a bad idea.
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Originally posted at Black Girl Nerds All that is lacking in substance is made up for with gorgeous imagery in
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Doctor Strange, directed by Scott Derrickson (Sinister), tells the story of Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), a gifted neurosurgeon who is
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Nate Parker stars in the Nat Turner biopic film, Birth of a Nation. While most true story adaptations include a few….
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Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children is the YA/action adventure film directed by the master of macabre, Tim Burton. This
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