Napoleon: Not Dynamite!
Forty-six years and more than two dozen films ago, British filmmaking legend Ridley Scott made his feature debut with The Duellists, a thrifty but gorgeous account of a violent rivalry between two officers in Napoleon Bonaparte’s army. To their credit, his dueling American leads, the Brooklyn-reared Harvey Keitel and the Northern Californian Keith Carradine, made…
May December Interrogates Truth and the Lies We Tell Ourselves
Todd Haynes’ May December confronts our obsession with true crime, neat endings, and lurid headlines that become fodder for late night TV.
Comedy and Horror Collide in The ‘Burbs’ Critique of ‘80s America
Perhaps better suited for today’s audiences, Joe Dante’s oft-overlooked 1989 film starring Tom Hanks makes monsters of men.
Sorry/Not Sorry Uses the Fall and Rise of Louis C.K. to Prove Cancel Culture Isn’t Real
Sorry/Not Sorry, showing this weekend at Double Exposure, focuses on the women C.K. violated, and comedy’s inability to hold him accountable.
When Evil Lurks is the Grisliest Movie of the Year
Nobody is safe from the unnamed, unseen evil that wreaks havoc on a rural Argentine town in this buzzy new horror film.