Martin Scorsese has been a topic of debate recently for his harsh opinion of the Marvel Universe. In an interview with Empire, the acclaimed director/filmmaker stated, “I don’t see them. I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema”.

Of all North American countries, Mexico is the only one that doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving. So I, a Mexican, couldn’t understand what the fuss was about.

There are great moments here—the electronic laughter in the lantern, Pattinson's cartoonish run across the rocks on the shore, Dafoe's lighthouse face, the difference between Dafoe's eloquent barrage of insults and Pattinson's pitiful one—and the second half fitfully finds a manic energy, but Eggers is too self-conscious and gets in…

Based on an actual prison rehabilitation program in Carson City, Nevada, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s The Mustang (2019) is an intense, heartfelt film full of surprises. Following the story of Roman Coleman, played by Matthias Schoenaerts, audiences are given a glimpse into the life of a convict.

Written and directed by Andrea Arnold, Fish Tank (2009) thrusts its audience into a world of feral feminine physicality. In doing so, the film offers an unflinching, tactile meditation on the claustrophobia of aimless adolescent ambition.

Stories We Tell is a 2012 documentary film directed by Sarah Polley and the film follows Sarah Polley as she learns about herself, her paternal father, and her relationship to her family.

What would happen if the underclasses, the underrepresented and the underprivileged rose up against the upper class in an act of revenge? This is what filmmaker Jordan Peele describes as “The American Nightmare” and it serves as one of several underlying messages in his new film, Us (Peele, 2019).

Molly Bagnall on Shirkers and Self-Portrait: Birth at 47 KM from True/False 2018.

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by Jack Howard Earlier this month, The Bijou Film Board put on a showing of David Lynch’s enigmatic classic Eraserhead (1977) to a packed house, and with its 11 P. M.