Movies
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The Diary Of A Chambermaid – first-look review
“Capitalism,” the writer Rayne Fisher-Quann recently semi-joked, “makes women of us all.” That is, subsumes our own agency, expropriates our labor,…
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A Girl’s Story – first-look review
French filmmaker Judith Godrèche sadly has unique insight when it comes to the lifelong trauma of sexual violence and your…
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Colony – first-look review | Little White Lies
In the post-Romero era of zombie horror filmmaking, there are only a handful of titles that truly stand out, and one…
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Atonement – first-look review | Little White Lies
In 2012, just under a year after the end of the Second Gulf War, New Yorker staff writer Dexter Filkins wrote…
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Paper Tiger – first-look review
When Uncle Gary (Adam Driver) arrives at his brother’s family home in Queens, it’s in a shiny black Mercedes with a fleet…
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Club Kid – first-look review
In the remix of club comedown banger ‘Everything Is Romantic’, Charli xcx transformed her original ode to an transcendent Italian…
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La Libertad Doble – first-look review
In the year 2001, the Argentinean filmmaker Lisandro Alonso kinda created a blueprint for a new form of hybrid cinema with his…
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Shana – first-look review | Little White Lies
In the modern pantheon of movie protagonists who are simultaneously virtuous and vile, Shana (Eva Huault) is up there with…
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All of a Sudden – first-look review
When we talk about “set pieces” in relationship to cinema, we often think of a jaw-dropping, computer-assisted visual sugar rush that…
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Paint the Legend: Behind the scenes on The…
How can you tell that a painting is the work of a great artist? In Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers, art restorer Lori Butler…
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