On May 16th, 2024, at the Cannes Film Festival, audiences waited with baited breath for the premiere of Francis Ford Coppola's epic sci-fi feature: Megalopolis . A film that had been in production for nearly half a century, Megalopolis was one of the most ambitious cinematic projects of all time and marked the return of arguably the most revered director in the world. With a generation-spanning, star-studded cast, a gargantuan budget, and a script forty years in the making,

I can totally understand why someone may at first glance brush off Luca Guadagnino's After The Hunt,  or even find it insufferable. From the moment the trailer dropped, it was rife with odd camera angles, actors reading pretentious dialogue, and a literal ticking clock of a score that feels like it should be in the new Blumhouse horror flick. Considering that I saw the film much later than everybody else did, I was fully expecting to be just as, if not more annoyed by the who

This past January, the talk of the Sundance Film Festival was Geeta Gandbhir's The Perfect Neighbor , an American documentary about the murder of Ajike Owens. Murder documentaries are dime-a-dozen, but what makes Gandbhir's film so unique is that it's told almost exclusively via raw police bodycam footage over the course of two years. The film captured the attention of millions upon its arrival to Netflix on Friday, quickly shooting to the #1 spot on the platform. So let's ta

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