Walter Scott Murch is one of the most influential figures in film history that most people haven’t heard of. Now 83, Murch was born in New York City and was part of the newest generation in a mostly Canadian family of artists that also included his father, painter Walter Tandy Murch, and his grandmother, Louise

If you like your arthouse pornography with a heaping ladle of leftist agitprop (or “agitporn,” as he’d call it), Bruce LaBruce is a name that should be on your lips. As our very own Scout Tafoya once put it, Bruce is “one of the most fearless filmmakers alive,” a man who’s spent the last thirty

The newLucas Museum of Narrative Art is a dazzling collection of art that tells stories, featuring iconic images like Norman Rockwell’s painting of a runaway boy sharing a soda with a sympathetic cop at a diner. It hangs next to an updated display featuring Richard Williams’ modern reimagining of the scene: a young Black boy

Far from excessive, and not a copy-and-paste error, each “Your Mother” in director Bassam Tariq’s “Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother” carries pointed weight. It references the Islamic hadiths that recall the Prophet Muhammad’s answer to the question, “Who deserves the best of you?” To this, Muhammad answers, “Your mother,” three times, then “your father.” 

Three or four episodes into Mike Flanagan’s visceral, searing, and provocative eight-part adaptation of “Carrie,” something occurred to me: I had forgotten to be scared. Maybe it’s because we’ve seen so many adaptations and updates of Stephen King’s classic 1974 novel, from Brian De Palma’s masterful and terrifying 1976 film to the stage work “Carrie:

Kate Renshaw-Lewis’ “Busy Bodies” is the kind of film I love to program for a shorts block, but it’s not the easiest to write about. Six minutes long, abstract, and open to interpretation, the film is a compelling, weird delight that I have watched many times and still find something odd and new each time. (Unfortunately,

From the opening moments of director Reed Van Dyk’s “Atonement,” the film subverts tropes and expands what war films (and their harrowing aftermath) can be. Shot on a warm, 16mm film by cinematographer Jon Peter, the film opens with a family in Iraq going about their quotidian rhythms for an extended period of time before

As a hallmark of the Xbox 360 era, “Gears of War” was a franchise that really cemented the nitty gritty third-person cover shooter genre into the cultural video game zeitgeist. The muted earth tones of the first three games set the stage for a bloody and visceral world filled with war and monsters. When the

It’s funny, looking back on 2026, that we’ll have gotten two televisual glimpses into the mind of the late, great chef and food writer Anthony Bourdain. One, Matt Johnson’s wry, tender biopic “Tony,” gives us a glimpse of the man’s larval form, the insecure, manipulative boy before he became the Tony we all knew and

Created by George Kay, HBO’s new series “War” follows tech billionaire Morgan Henderson (Dominic West) and his movie-star wife, Carla Duval (Sienna Miller), whose marriage is colder than the dreary London weather. When we first meet him, he sleeps with a young woman who is clearly not his wife, but the morning after their tryst,