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Supergirl review – a mid-field superhero affair

For generations, Superman has been the poster boy of polished, all-American heroism. He meets his antithesis in Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl,

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Johnny Knoxville: ‘Jackass was born among friends…

If you’re gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough, and Jackass has been tough enough to endure over 25 years of

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500 Miles review – wall-to-wall soppiness

If your cinematic disposition only allows your body to process base levels of background sentimentality, then you may want to

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The Last Viking review – Danish dark comedy is a…

The latest feature from the Danish screenwriter and filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen follows Anker (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) as he returns

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Sophy Romvari: ‘I tried to infuse my love of…

Blue Heron is only the first feature film from Sophy Romvari, but through a formally inventive examination of familial trauma, childhood

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Black Swan at the A.R.T: an unearthly medley of…

The Swan Lake theme really is something. Was another such tune ever crafted that could be simultaneously applied to scenarios

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Blue Heron review – wonderful, emotionally…

The films of Sophy Romvari are slippery things. The Canadian filmmaker already has something of a cult following among very-online cinephiles,

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Toy Story 5 + Thomas Jordan | Cactus Pears | The Brave Little Toaster (1987)

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Pixar’s Toy Story 5 and spoke to Pixar’s Thomas Jordan. We then

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Nino review – pulls its punches

While at the GP collecting some routine test results, Nino (Théodore Pellerin) is suddenly asked if he has his cancer-care

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Porous Encounters: A Queer East Correspondence

This is the first of three pieces published in collaboration with Queer East Film Festival, whose Emerging Critics project brought together