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I’ll say this much for CPH:DOX: it’s the only festival where I’ve attended a screening inside a disused reservoir. The building that used to house Copenhagen’s drinking water stocks has since become an underground arts venue – the perfect place for an atmospheric staging of Rob Petit’s Underland, adapted from Robert Macfarlane’s best-selling non-fiction book about the…
If you ever find yourself wandering the streets of east London on a Friday night, maybe a few virgin Sea Breezes into your evening, you’ll likely see someone unironically sporting the scorpion jacket that Ryan Gosling wore in Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2011 film, Drive. If you’re someone who would recognise that jacket in the wild, then this is…
The descriptor “Orwellian” has lapsed into parody with regard to its modern usage. The right use it (incorrectly) as a crass way to describe how their freedoms are somehow being stifled. The left, meanwhile, have a more nuanced understanding of the ironies inherent in Orwell’s mode of political critique, but still don’t quite get things completely right….
The finale of “Daredevil: Born Again’s” first season couldn’t have arrived at a more opportune moment. What began as a cat-and-mouse game between vigilante Daredevil/Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and drug-lord Wilson Fisk/Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio) has escalated into a full-fledged political thriller, with New York City descending into a fascist state under its criminal mayor—a development…
Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, widely known as Ebertfest, has announced additional programming, special guests, and updated film selections for its 27th and final edition, “The Last Dance,” taking place April 17–18, 2026, in Champaign, IL. Presented by Century Law Firm, this milestone year marks a poignant farewell to one of the most beloved film festivals in the country, celebrating a legacy…
There has been substantial ink spilled on the typical “Sundance” movie. Having attended SXSW for several years now, I’ve found that trying to typecast films emblematic of the Film and TV Festival is much harder. The three films in this dispatch are perhaps the best sample size of what I might call the typical “SXSW”…
A line I keep close to my heart, and one I’ve been asking talent on red carpets and junkets, revolves around Roger’s famous words that movies are empathy machines. When I’ve asked this question, I’m always fascinated by the array of responses I hear. Rarely is one answer the same, and the multiplicity has reminded…
A line I keep close to my heart, and one I’ve been asking talent on red carpets and junkets, revolves around Roger’s famous words that movies are empathy machines. When I’ve asked this question, I’m always fascinated by the array of responses I hear. Rarely is one answer the same, and the multiplicity has reminded…
From there, he goes into seclusion in the dry Southwestern landscapes that likely remind him most of home, inadvertently retreating further from his mission and his sense of self over months, then years, then decades. The film’s other characters decay alongside him: A college professor (a wonderful Rip Torn) staves off intellectual and ethical stagnation through…
As the effects of late-stage capitalism become not only more pervasive but also irreversible, it’s understandable that the art created will reflect a range of reactions to aspects of our crumbling reality. Whether they’re depicting alternate futures or presenting heightened versions of what we presently experience, it’s encouraging that these films in this dispatch road…