As Controversial as he is Celebrated, the Spanish Auteur Continues to Live up to his Reputation
One of my favorite facts about Pedro Almodóvar, aside from his ...
Three Companions for Your Summer Listening
Happy Summer! ‘Tis the season of popsicles, outdoor movie nights, and afternoons swimming in the pool. It’s also the...
ZekeFilm Writers Share Their Midyear Film Picks
Once again, we present our humble collective listand individual lists of our picks for ourannual “Best Films of...
Myth Maker. Film Noir Pioneer. Expressionist Prophet?
Fritz Lang. The monocoled genius of the screen.
I first encountered Lang in a beat-up copy of Metropol...
Spend Some Time With a Hodgepodge of Sophisticated Savages
DIRECTED BY SALLY POTTER/2018
Sally Potter’s new film, The Party, starts with a door opening. It ...
2017 was a Good Time at the Movies
This was a pretty incredible year for film, so narrowing down a top ten, much less a number one, was a pretty hard task. Thi...
Shining a Light on the Greatest Cinematographer Working Today.
Roger Deakins is widely considered to be the best cinematographer working today. He is an artis...
Some Heavy Gore and Violence, and Some Heavy Subjects, For the Christmastime
DIRECTED BY CRAIG ANDERSON/2016
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 17, 2017/ARTSPLOITATION FI...
The miracle of the movies has long been said to be not the way they wrangle and conform all preexisting means of artistic expression into one mass medium, b...
A Sloppy But Informative Documentary About a Worthy Subject
Directed by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana/ 2017
Street Date: October 24, 2017/Kino L...
Paul has written about politics and baseball for other outlets in the past. Besides cinema, he cites baseball, music and fitness as other key passions in his life. His reviews are humorous and sometimes cutting, aiming to get at central themes of any given movie. For him, the value of film lies in the way the art form can use plot, vision and sound to create stories of flawed, relatable people that are riveting and allegories for deeper things.
