Movies
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In Sangeeta’s Society Girl, sex work is all work
In a flour mill, a young girl in pigtails winnows wheat when her manager drunkenly stumbles into frame. The camera cuts to…
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Inside Chronically Online: a big-screen…
The British Film Institute was following a similar trail of hyperlinks. Kitty Robertson, an assistant curator at the BFI National Archive,…
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Köln 75 review – hammers with propulsive,…
In the opening refrain of Ido Fluk’s Köln 75, music journalist Michael Watts (Michael Chernus) addresses the audience and compares…
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A T&M Cannes Film Festival Special #2
A T&M Cannes Film Festival Special #2 On Truth & Movies this week, Hannah Strong reports live from the Cannes…
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Erupcja review – a witty and tender adventure
In Olivia Laing’s ’The Lonely City’, they eloquently stated, ”I wanted very much not to be where I was… the feelings…
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Hacks was always a love story
Hacks contains multitudes; at once it’s a giddy comedy, an unpredictable drama, and an endlessly fruitful sitcom, but more than anything, Hacks…
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Power Ballad review – amiable musical comedy…
The name of the film is Power Ballad; the name of its lead character is Rick Power. Is there anything…
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Tuner review – woefully off-key
Cinema has the power to shape perceptions of entire groups of people. People with AIDS are Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (1993);…
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Backrooms review – sincerely disturbing and…
Western horror cinema tends to come in waves: 80s slashers, 90s meta-comedies, 2000s torture porn, 2010s found footage, and most…
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Andrzej Wajda’s Cinema of Complicated Defiance at…
The end of the war does not produce liberation, but merely transforms one unstable political condition into another. The final…
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