Witnessing beauty stained with tragedy or innocence ripped away by loss is not the sort of experience that washes away instantaneously. In the harsh wilderness of Laos, a country in Southeast Asia tortured by decades...

“Take off your wig and stay awhile” might be an apt subtitle for director Matt Creed’s debut feature, Lily, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film, based on the real-life experiences of co-writer and...

A film about three peach-fuzzed, male 20-somethings road tripping through America’s heartland in search of one-night stands could surely raise a feminist eyebrow or two. If only because there’s already been...

Traveling carnival sideshows are as vintage nowadays as an Instagram filter. Stepping right up to sneak a peek at the bearded ladies, the sword swallowers and the fire breathers no longer amaze audiences seeking an...

Nature and death are, oftentimes in cinema, omnipresent, larger-than-life specters; as ubiquitous guiding forces, one could argue that these themes play roles almost as integral as a narrative’s principal...

What happens when a stray bluebird doesn’t leave the cold woods of Northern Maine for warmer climes? Plenty; according to writer-director Lance Edmands, that “little mistake of nature has enormous consequences”...

A blending of Americana flashes across the screen in edgy, sun-faded clips — picture Southern Bayou meets Wild West; urban shooting range meets rural deer hunt; gun shop meets military installation. The voice...

Home Alone brought us the comic holiday tale of the “Wet Bandits” (rejigged as the “Sticky Bandits” in the second installment), a duo of inept, small-time crooks who can’t seem to get the better of young...

“I’m just a little guy, I can’t do anything,” apes Dr. Mathilde Krim, the pioneering research scientist who was one of the first to tackle HIV/AIDS. Describing the thinking of the vast majority of the public...

Crawling inside the mind of an artist can be like crawling inside the thickets of a magical forest where fireflies flicker, owls screech and unrecognizable shadows taunt the imagination. Much like secrets of the...