‘Blue Film’ Review: An L.A. Camboy Gets a Blast From the Past in Elliot Tuttle’s Intense Queer Chamber Drama
Tuttle’s striking feature debut channels the boldest provocateurs of European cinema to deliver a work hellbent on excavating the moral and sexual boundaries of Queerness in ways rarely seen onscreen, culminating in a film both viscerally demanding and endlessly fascinating in its ideas.
‘The School Duel’ Review: A Sobering and Satirical Vision of the U.S. Gun Crisis
An unapologetically in-your-face condemnation of pro-gun politics and the nationalist sentiments that support them, The School Duel is a stylish work that startles in just how closely its satirical vision resembles the Trumpian America we are increasingly confronted with.
‘Life After’ Review: Sundance-Winning Documentary Investigates the System’s Sinister Grip on the Disabled Community
A long-forgotten account from a disabled Californian woman is reborn in Life After, serving as the North Star in documentarian Reid Davenport’s latest socio-political exploration of the disabled community’s experiences within the modern world and the legal and healthcare system’s authority over their autonomy.
‘Redlands’ Review: John Brian King's Feature Debut is Flawed and Unfeeling
While Redlands may scratch the surface of intriguing ideas surrounding alienation, masculinity, and creativity, its form and performances are unable to support these notions in ways that are particularly engaging.
‘Vulcanizadora’ Review: A Wild, Weird-Out Buddy Film That Travels in Shocking Directions
The latest movie from Michigan-based auteur Joel Potrykus, Vulcanizadora initially operates as an off-kilter and increasingly uneasy buddy film before recasting into another form altogether, with its two distinctive sections united by ideas built around a duo of fallen men and their disempowerment in the face of the modern world.