Category: Film

The Deepest Breath rivals Free Solo as one of the most anxiety-inducing extreme sports documentaries ever.

Talk to Me is a by-the-numbers genre horror exercise which could as easily have found a home at Blumhouse. It’s elevated, though, by its attention to building sympathetic characters and by its remarkably ruthless willingness to tear those same characters apart. 

In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Tom Cruise is back with the seventh installment of a series that somehow manages to increase the stakes yet again. The narrative of the film is relatively simple: Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is tasked with capturing a key that allows the control of a sentient AI system […]

When West Germany began to invite guest workers from Turkey to fill the lower echelon positions in the country’s growing economy in 1955, the newcomers brought along their own music to remind them of the home they left behind. Seamlessly blending archival footage with talking heads and pithy informational intertitles, director Cem Kaya tells the […]

In the fall of 1990, the Madrid-based realist painter Antonio López García set himself the seemingly humble task of painting the quince tree in his yard that he’d planted four years before. Known for his exacting fidelity in depicting the seen world, he uses a plumb line, puts posts in the ground to make sure […]

Overall, The League is well worth watching if you’re an avid fan of sports and history.