Aaron Krasnov

Displacing Tom Bissell's short story "Expensive Trips Nowhere" to the verdant hills of Georgia, Julia Loktev re-imagines the somber, transient tale of love, fissured by a momentary, yet infinitely projecting incident. Set against the lush, ex-Soviet highland, The Loneliest Planet...

An oddly keeled journey through the subconscious passageways of 1980's SoHo, nourished with ancient Chinese spells and the vaguely hostile smell of almonds. The first feature by Sara Driver, Jim Jarmusch's spouse and occasional collaborator, explores the phosphorescent discharge of...

The billowy temper of reverberating metal hauntingly inhabits this tale of spiritual rehabilitation. An examination of second chance among the stars, the lustral soul of reparations in a world of potential divergence. A tale of loss, strife, forgiveness and amends...

Upon the outset, a coincidental bout of serendipity had struck; the smile inducing collision of events that feels slyly preternatural.  The book atop my to-be-read pile was W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, The New York Film Festival was announcing...

Displacing Tom Bissell's short story "Expensive Trips Nowhere" to the verdant hills of Georgia, Julia Loktev re-imagines the somber, transient tale of love, fissured by a momentary, yet infinitely projecting incident. Set against the lush, ex-soviet highland The Loneliest Planet...

[With Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur about to arrive in Toronto we revisit our earlier review.]An animal can only absorb so much punishment before it snaps back: the paraphrased narration an assessment of Tyrannosaur's brutality driven study. The feature debut of Paddy...

Turgid wastoids, beleaguered louseabouts and a muscle car built for the end-times, an image of pubescent despondency awash in the cultural purgatory of its youth, castaway and wandering. Bellflower asserts in bro-banter and failed relationships, roiled in the unending,...

Laced with slapstick and American action film influences, Troubleshooter owes as much to Tony Scott as it does producer Ryoo Seung-Wan. A frenetic-brained thriller with a deeply funny underbelly aiming to have fun with the genre, without skimping on serious-minded...

An animal can only absorb so much punishment before it snaps back: the paraphrased narration an assessment of Tyrannosaur's brutality driven study. The feature debut of Paddy Considine, and extension of his 2007 short, Dog Altogether. A portrait of self-destructive...

The billowy temper of reverberating metal hauntingly inhabits this tale of spiritual rehabilitation. An examination of second chance among the stars, the lustral soul of reparations in a world of potential divergence. A tale of loss, strife, forgiveness and...

From the intention of newly minted director Joe Cornish, Attack the Block is an homage to The Warriors, Predator, The Outsiders, E.T., Rumble Fish, and just about every other great monster and child-gang film you can think of. From Cornish's...

Over the past few years I continually heard the tellings of science fiction's resurgence in Duncan Jones' Moon, with practical effects, a small budget, stellar acting and an original premise, Jones' first feature was a blissful surprise. Science Fiction, not...

 "The goal for me--and I think it is most of the time, when I make a film, or whatever I make--is to make something that is very open. Even if there are other issues raised by the film, I never...

[With Meek's Cutoff now screening at Sundance we re-visit Aaron's earlier review from the New York Film Festival.]There is something deeply unsettling about Meek's Cutoff, a haunting feeling that grows with time, reaching back to the outset and tormenting the...