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When Jean-Paul Sartre wrote “hell is other people,” he wasn’t talking specifically about the insidious experience of being a teenage girl, but any survivor of high school will likely tell you, he might as well have...

Tomorrow marks the start of the 22nd Fantasia International Film Festival, Montreal’s genre fest that runs from July 12-August 2. In the past years, I’ve been following the coverage of Fantasia by the likes of Brian...

Kayla puts videos on YouTube. In them, she stutters, and smiles, and makes her clumsy way through good, if well worn, advice, shared with the nameless, faceless void. She’s animated and flustered, waiting to be found,...

In 1891, French painter Paul Gauguin, disgusted with European civilization, and the lack of appreciation for his work, set off for French Polynesia to get his groove back, as an artist and a man. He had...

Think of a 22-year-old you know. Now imagine that person starts an enterprise and runs it successfully for 55 years. Can’t imagine that? I can. Michael Kutza founded the Chicago International Film Festival when he was...

“Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” seems designed to answer the question: “Can a movie be hyperactive and dull at the same time?” Genndy Tartakovsky brings back all the fan favorites from the previous two films and...

It’s been four months since I first saw it at SXSW, but one of the performances that has stuck with me this year is that of Charlie Plummer in Andrew Haigh’s gorgeous and moving “Lean on...

When Tab Hunter was at the apex of his stardom in the Fifties, virtually every aspect of his career and life was under the control of a Hollywood studio system that determined everything from the roles...

The New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) turned 17 this year, a not-insignificant age if you, like me, have been attending the festival with regularity (like, say, the last 15 years). I’ve seen this film series grow over time, and would like...

A cultural hit ever since its first showing at last January’s Sundance Film Festival, Boots Riley’s enigmatic “Sorry to Bother You” is now a blockbuster for those who crave explosive ideas, as articulated by off-the-wall filmmaking....