Sometimes I’m torn between the thing itself and the idea of the thing. I may not enjoy a book, for instance, but I ...

I really enjoyed the free-wheeling philosophical monologue that was The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology with Slavoj Žižek. Directed by Sophie Fiennes’s, the film ...

The other week, Alec and I had a good discussion about extreme horror and disturbing cinema. Inevitably the best films that are disturbing, ...

Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of my favorite filmmakers. A sure cult figure, there’s an undeniable pull to El Topo, Santa Sangre, or even ...

Over the weekend I caught five short films at the Brooklyn Film Festival. One called Good Grief played before the feature-length documentary Furever ...

There was a point in the mid-to-late 1990s when a bunch of lesser filmmakers tried to make movies like Quentin Tarantino. It was ...

It was only two years ago that Alejandro Jodorowksy turned to crowfunding to complete The Dance of Reality (La Danza de la Realidad), ...

Aroused is an odd documentary. It’s essentially an advertisement for director Deborah Anderson’s art book (which she makes sure to plug in the ...

First let me get this out of the way: if you didn’t like Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, steer clear of To ...