As an electric guitar spits out the first chords of “America the Beautiful,” a name appears on the big screen at LPAC:…
Bong Joon-ho is one of Korea’s most prolific and accomplished filmmakers. He is most well known for his big-budget English-language films, e.g.,…
Early on in “Us,” Jordan Peele’s second directorial effort, a young girl on the Santa Cruz boardwalk passes a beach bum carrying…
Like many sports movies before it, “High Flying Bird” is about changing the game. It is a classic example of an underdog…
Recently available on Netflix, “Dear Ex” (2018) tells a story of a Taiwanese teenage boy who drifts apart from his mother after…
If you watched the snoozefest that was this year’s Oscars, you might believe that 2018 was a terrible year for movies. The…
“Shoplifters” (万引き家族) is the 2018 Palme d’Or-winning masterwork of celebrated Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda. The film tells the story of a family…
“The Wailing,” written and directed by Na Hong-jin, was a huge hit in South Korea when it was originally released in May…
“Burning” is a South Korean film by Lee Chang-dong that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this May. It is currently in…
A 1960s Montana family burns to the ground in Paul Dano’s masterful directorial debut. Dano is best known as an actor (“There…