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‘All My Puny Sorrows’ Trailer: Sarah Gadon & Alison Pill Play Sisters Grappling With Trauma & Death

March 30, 2022 9:12 am

Can a single moment shape an entire family? The film “All My Puny Sorrows” investigates how a painful incident imprints on those left behind. This adaptation of Miriam Toews’ critically acclaimed novel focuses...

‘All My Puny Sorrows’: A Familiar But Well-Acted Indie Family Trauma Drama [TIFF Review]

Jason Bailey

September 11, 2021 10:18 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Against a wide, white sky, with snow sprinkled across the ground, a man stands near the railroad tracks. He watches the train approach, takes off his glasses, sets them down gently on the ground, and steps in ...

‘Them’ Trailer: Lena Waithe’s Amazon Prime Series Tackles Racism & Otherworldy Evil In 1950s Los Angeles

Charles Barfield

March 23, 2021 9:26 am

News, Television, Trailers

With shows such as “American Horror Story,” we’ve seen the horror-themed anthology series success only get bigger and bigger in recent years. Amazon Prime Video is hoping to capitalize on that with the upcomin...

‘Them’: Amazon’s Social Horror Anthology Shows Early Promise [SXSW Review]

Jason Bailey

March 19, 2021 10:27 am

Festivals, News, Reviews, Television

Reviewing a TV series at a film festival is always a tricky bit of business, as it finds the film critic, used to appraising an entire work, engaging in a combination of critique and prediction – I think the r...

‘Devs’: Alex Garland Examines False Techno Prophets Via A Stunning Astral Algorithmic Intelligence [Review]

Rodrigo Perez

March 2, 2020 4:19 pm

Features, News, Reviews

Hear me out. FX's "Devs" brings both Nietzsche and Goethe to mind (stay with me). The polymath and poet behind Elective Affinities once famously wrote, “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely...

Gael Garcia Bernal & Alison Pill Power The Pop-Art Inspired ‘Zoom’ In New Trailer

Charles Barfield

August 18, 2016 2:07 pm

Trailers

Mix one part A-ha’s “Take on Me” with a little “Stranger Than Fiction,” and apparently out comes “Zoom,” starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Alison Pill. Directed by Pedro Morelli, the film looks like it could grab...