P Categories Features P.S.H. I Love You September 13, 2021 PSH I Love You: Punch-Drunk Love Punch-Drunk Love, PTA's Adam Sandler romance , sees the great Philip Seymour Hoffman play a louth, loathsome sleazebag.
K Categories Columns Features KinoKultur Movies September 5, 2021 KinoKultur: Deep Rising and The Strangeness’ Tentacular Tales Though decades and budgets apart, Stephen Sommers and Melanie Anne Phillips' creature features dig into the unique terror of the tentacle.
C Categories Columns Criterion Corner Features August 31, 2021 Criterion Corner: Ashes and Diamonds, Company, Beasts of No Nation Netflix original Beasts of No Nation, Sondheim musical doc Company, and Andrzej Wajda's postwar masterpiece dot August's Criterion releases.
T Categories Features TV August 28, 2021 The secret ingredient in Star Trek: Lower Decks is love The animated series, now in its second season, pays homage while also poking gentle fun at its predecessors.
P Categories Columns Features Movies P.S.H. I Love You August 16, 2021 P.S.H. I Love You: repairing the world in Magnolia One of Philip Seymour Hoffman's finest moments has him playing a beacon of comfort and compassion.
K Categories Columns KinoKultur August 16, 2021 KinoKultur: Lesbians and leather in Blood Sisters and Dirty Diaries Blood Sisters, a seminal documentary on Lesbian sadomasochism, converses with Feminist pornography anthology Dirty Diaries intriguingly.
K Categories Columns KinoKultur August 8, 2021 KinoKultur: Dino Metaphors in The Land Unknown and Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend The Land Unknown and Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend's sometimes awkward dinosaur suits are as textually fascinating as they are clumsy.
P Categories Columns Features P.S.H. I Love You July 16, 2021 P.S.H. I Love You: On Hoffman’s first great turn in PTA’s Boogie Nights PSH makes the most out of sparse screentime in Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 classic.
T Categories Anniversaries Features July 9, 2021 Two-Lane Blacktop at 50 (years, not miles) A half-century on, we look at the fast and furious American arthouse car flick that became, against all odds, a landmark of independent cinema.
K Categories Columns KinoKultur July 4, 2021 KinoKultur: Political Vaudeville in Sweet Liberty and F.T.A. Looking at the radical potential of vaudeville through its appearances in a farce and a long-suppressed documentary.
