Kristian Lin
Film Shorts // March 27 – April 2, 2024
OPENING
Aadujeevitham (NR) Prithviraj Sukumaran stars in this Indian drama as a Malayali day laborer who’s dragooned into slave labor in Saudi Arabia. Also with...
Immaculate, Late Night: Halloween in March
My mother thinks that horror movies only ever come out during Halloween and can’t fathom why anyone at any time of year would want...
Film Shorts // March 20-26, 2024
OPENING
The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) If this is the last anime film by Hayao Miyazaki, the master’s hallucinatory powers are undiminished. Set during...
Love Lies Bleeding: Girls & Guns
Shortly after I reviewed Saint Maud, I heard that its writer-director, Rose Glass, was working on a film with Kristen Stewart. Without knowing anything...
Odds and Ends
With this feature, I can truly put the movies of 2023 to one side (at least until I revisit them in early 2034). Here’s...
Film Shorts // March 13-19, 2024
OPENING
The American Society of Magical Negroes (PG-13) This satire stars Justice Smith as a recently deceased Black man who learns of the existence of...
Oscar’s Hidden Gold
To answer your question, I do think it’s weird that Barbie missed out on the Best Director and Best Actress categories. However, since the...
She Movies
On March 22, 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière held a private screening in Paris of a film they made of workers leaving their factory....
Film Shorts // March 6-12, 2024
OPENING
Accidental Texan (PG-13) Mark Lambert Bristol’s comedy is about an itinerant teen (Rudy Pankow) and an old wildcatter (Thomas Haden Church) who hatch a...
The Best Movies of 2013: A Look Back
As Howard Cosell once said, "Let us reflect back nostalgically upon the past." (Thus repeating himself four times in one sentence.) Awards season always...
