Tag: romance
ROMERÍA Revew: Family Secrets Are Revealed
In Carla Simón's autobiographical film, visual beauty undercuts its serious subjects.
LEVITICUS Review: Queer Horror Becomes Frighteningly Literal
Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen star in Adrian Chiarella's startling debut feature.
CHARADE Blu-ray Review: Spies, Danger, Laughs and Fashion an Eclectic Criterion Mix
'Comedy' and 'thriller' are not genres that often go together; or if they do, the emphasis is generally on the comedy aspect and not the thrills. If there are thrills, they are usually brushed off as unserious enough to relax...
BY HOOK OR BY CROOK Interview: Harry Dodge and Silas Howard Look Back on Their Landmark Film in Advance of Restoration Tour
In the time since By Hook or by Crook premiered at the 2001 Frameline Film Festival and established itself as a landmark of queer cinema, the two writer/director/stars behind the film have gone in very different directions. Silas Howard has...
Now Streaming: MY TWO CENTS, MURDER MINDFULLY, THE FOUR SEASONS Take Aim at Comedy Around the World
Quick thoughts on 3 new series -- animated Italian, and live-action German and U.S. -- all debuting on Netflix.
VAMPIRE CIRCUS and SPELLBINDER Get Slick New 4K Releases from Imprint Films
Some fools call them "lesser" films, but Imprint gives them all the love anyway.
SPEED RACER on 4K UHD Is Your New Favorite Home Video Reference Disc
Plus three new 4K releases from the Criterion Collection.
Now Playing: OBSESSION, IS GOD IS, IN THE GREY
Plus: 'Decorado,' 'LifeHack,' 'Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe,' 'Been Here Stay Here,' 'The Wizard of the Kremlin,' 'Magic Hour.'
MY DEAREST ASSASSIN Review: Blood, Romance, and Heroes
Taweewat Wantha's zesty new action thriller is heroic bloodshed through an abused Thai romantic lens.
LEVITICUS Official Trailer: Adrian Chiarella's Queer Horror Flick in Cinemas This June
Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most - each other.
Calgary Underground 2026 Review: LITTLE DOORS, A Tentative Dance Around Trust
“Things never got so bleak that I took up a hobby.” This sums up the world of Little Doors. The country is in a kind of ‘soft apocalypse’ where the big city may be on fire, and things are...
THE FORBIDDEN CITY's Wildly Entertaining and Affecting Thrills Come Home on 4K UHD
Well Go USA brings three new genre films to home video.
KINUYO TANAKA DIRECTS Blu-ray Review: A Beguiling 6-Film Career
The Japanese actress' transition behind the camera is explored in a new Eclipse series boxed set from The Criterion Collection.
Criterion in July 2026: CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH, THE CRYING GAME, Mike Mills Trilogy
Plus: 'The Elephant Man,' 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,' 'Hud,' 'The Love That Remains.'
AMRUM Exclusive Clip: Coming-of-Age at The End of WWII in Nazi Germany
In 1945 Amrum Island, 12-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and farms to help feed his family. Life feels idyllic on this windswept isle until peace reveals an unexpected danger closer to home.
CHAO Review: Joyful and Hilarious Comic Adventure
Director Yasuhiro Aoki's stellar debut feature explodes on the screen with controlled chaos.
GILDA Blu-ray Review: The Atypical Noir Gets a Fresh Restoration
Probably like many people of my and slightly older generations, I was first introduced to Gilda from a scene in The Shawshank Redemption, during which the prisoners are watching the film and one insists that his friend pause in asking a request until...
Diagonale 2026 Review: WHITE SNAIL Subverts Girl-Meets-Boy Into Anti-Romance
Austrian-German filmmakers Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter's fiction debut reworks social drama conventions into a psychologically driven, docu-fiction hybrid centred on an unstable relationship shaped by loneliness, death and an implied autocratic backdrop.
Now on Digital: THE BRIDE! Comes Home
Maggie Gyllenhaal's divisive horror-romance stars Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, and Annette Bening.
THE DRAMA Review: Viscerally Affecting Comedy?
Kristoffer Borgli's The Drama sits somewhere between much of Lars von Trier's output and Sean Price Williams's The Sweet East on the artful edgelord spectrum; albeit closer to the latter's live action South Park than the sometimes incisive work of...
