Netflix’s musical romp has plenty of energy and catchy music, but falls short of doing its characters and story justice.…
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In two of her films, Sofia Coppola sparks discussion surrounding the male gaze.…
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John Crowley's adaptation of Donna Tartt's beloved novel is a lazy, pretentious slog.…
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The second season of the HBO show falls frustratingly flat despite some incredible performances.…
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20 years later, Eyes Wide Shut continues to entrance its audience.…
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Advertisements The Upside, a remake of the French film The Intouchables, is a typical drama in which the central characters fall easily into archetypes and archetypal emotions. Bryan Cranston is a wealthy businessman paralyzed from the neck down. He pours over his grief…
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Advertisements Jared, I want you to do well. I want you to have a great life. I love you, but we cannot see a way that you can live under this roof if you fundamentally go against the grain of our beliefs.…
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Advertisements Sofia Coppola’s take on Thomas Cullinan’s novel The Beguiled (or The Painted Devil)—and by association Don Siegel’s 1971 film adaptation—is a dusky, sensual and twisted sort of fairytale. Coppola’s version is vastly different tonally, as she attempts to share the same…
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Advertisements The rather well-known phrase “as above, so below“—as stated in the title of this piece— comes from the religious, philosophical and esoteric tradition of Hermeticism, which follows Hermes Trismegistus, or the thrice-great Hermes. More specifically, this phrase descends from a school…
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FilmEra is at TIFF from September 6th to 16th. In this dispatch, we review new films from Bi Gan, Karyn Kusama and Yury Bykov.…
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