J Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month June 6, 2023 June’s Filmmaker of the Month: Gregg Araki The New Queer Cinema raconteur gets our focus for this year's Pride Month.
C Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies Reviews May 31, 2023 Come to the Moulin Rouge! where artifice reveals authenticity Baz Luhrmann’s mashup musical piles on the spectacle on its way to embracing true love.
T Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies May 29, 2023 Traversing Baz Lurhmann’s sonic landscapes Even when he's not making musical movies, the Aussie auteur's movies are always musical.
S Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month May 22, 2023 Strictly Ballroom introduces Luhrmann with stunning, messy style Baz Luhrmann's 1992 feature debut boasts stunning dancing, intriguing ideas, and muddled storytelling.
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month May 14, 2023 Two inimitable performances anchor Romeo + Juliet Baz Luhrmann’s hyper-stylized take on Shakespeare makes some odd choices, but not in the casting of some of its key characters
F Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies May 8, 2023 Filmmaker of the Month: Baz Luhrmann Australia's wild blockbuster king claims May as The Spool's Filmmaker of the Month. Join us all you, Children of the Revolution!
L Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies March 2, 2023 Life comes at you fast in M. Night Shyamalan’s Old The writer-director makes a horror film a metaphor for parenting with surprisingly resonant results.
S Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month February 28, 2023 Servant haunts through its isolating setting and stupendous cast M. Night Shyamalan produces an idiosyncratic ghost story whose reality is far from settled.
G Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month February 27, 2023 Glass shatters the modern superheroic mode to moving effect M. Night Shyamalan closes the Eastrail 117 trilogy with a deliberate anticlimax and deep empathy in place of spectacle, and the results are striking.
S Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month February 26, 2023 Split saw Shyamalan give James McAvoy the roles of a lifetime McAvoy approaches the superpowered Kevin Wendell Crumb and his alters with care and empathy, overcoming sketchy psychology.
