In his latest film, director Riley Stearns takes on deceptive ideologies to shock audiences with humor and horror. In our modern age of fast information and lack of fact-checking, it has become easier than ever to indoctrinate and brainwash populations. This is...
Martin Scorsese once described his own adaptation of Edith Wharton’s classic 1920 novel, “The Age of Innocence” as the “…most violent film I’ve ever made”, and it is hard to counter this claim given the emotional stakes and the explored world around that. While this...
No film about adolescence has stood the test of time quite like John Hughes’ ode to forced school on a Saturday quite like “The Breakfast Club”. A quintessential 80’s flick, released slap dab in the middle of the decade, was a rounding success at the time of its...
Based in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia, the Virginia Film Festival has celebrated the art of film for over 30 years and this past weekend, it continued its tradition of highlighting new features and documentaries, fresh takes on timeless classics, and...
2017 has been the year David Lynch returned to our lives. After a decade-plus absence in making films, his signature series Twin Peaks resumed (after a seemingly foreseen 25-year hiatus), continuing to instill that special sense of enigmatic storytelling that’s often...