Environmental documentaries thrive on their ability to question who stands to benefit — and who is left behind — in the rush toward a green future. That’s certainly true for the new climate feature, After Oil. In the project, filmmaker Boima Tucker explores the uneven realities of the global transition away from fossil fuels. Moving between…
The gaze of second-generation immigrants captures the plight of its forbearers. This is what film director Karla Murthy projects in her documentary The Gas Station Attendant. Through the use of footage from home videos and old recorded tapes, the director and Emmy-nominated producer who began her career working for several news programs on PBS, finds…
© Still from the film by DoP: Rosa Hadit Hernández © Colectivo Colmena Sexual assault remains one of the most urgent and complex issues facing young people today. Despite increased awareness, it is still shrouded in silence, confusion, and contradiction. More troubling still, it often arises not from the outside, but within spaces meant to feel…
©Courtesy of Film Movement Renoir : Suburban Tokyo, 1987. Imaginative eleven-year-old Fuki begins her summer break lonely and adrift — her kind, terminally ill father has landed once again in the hospital and her mother, distracted by the inevitability of his diagnosis, hasn’t much time for her daughter. Fuki responds to the situation not with…
©Courtesy of Film Movement Kids always pick up on more than their parents realize. That is especially true of eleven-year-old Fuki Okita. She fully understands that her father Keiji is dying from cancer and that her mother Utako is dealing with it badly. In fact, she often rather awkwardly acknowledges these facts to her increasingly…
A new Michael Jackson film has become available for streaming. Titled “Michael Jackson: The Verdict,” it becomes a three-part docuseries exploring the contentious 2005 criminal trial of the legendary singer. This follows a month after the theatrical release of the “Michael” biopic starring Jaafar Jackson, a film that earned approximately $850 million. Today, Netflix subscribers…
Check out more of our YouTube Channel Matthew Schuchman : In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early age, he would turn…
©A24 Following its $118 million opening weekend against a modest $10 million budget, it comes as no surprise that a sequel to the movie that topped the box office this past weekend, “Backrooms,” is already underway. Deadline reports that director Kane Parsons is currently searching for a screenwriter to collaborate on the sequel. They have…
Photo by Courtesy of IFC/Shudder – © Courtesy of IFC/Shudder Versatile performers often portray characters who journey across distant worlds, exploring unfamiliar realms and encountering otherworldly beings. Acclaimed Spanish and British actress Dafne Keen has been garnering international acclaim since her breakout role at only 12-years-old in Logan. The Critics’ Choice Awards nominee has been bringing…
©Courtesy of Warner Brothers Warner Bros. Pictures has revealed the second trailer for “The End of Oak Street,” which stars Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway. Previously called “Flowervale Street,” the film starts when an enigmatic celestial occurrence splits Oak Street away from the suburbs and relocates its community to an unknown destination. The Platt family…
Check out more of our YouTube Channel Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo’s program called “Morning…
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