Udo Kier is a living legend of cinema. Over the last 55 years, he has proved prolific and pioneering, appearing in more than 220 films and working with the likes of Lars von Trier, Gus van Sant, Dario Argento, and Andy Warhol. At the start, this German actor was proclaimed by the press as “the…

“Reservation Dogs,” the new slice-of-life dramedy from friends Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, is not just another FX series. The show is set in Indian Territory, the name for the northeastern part of Oklahoma, and focuses on four Indigenous teenagers who get into shenanigans in hopes of making a little cash. Each successful scheme adds…

Emma Dante’s “The Macaluso Sisters” opens on a playful note. Five sisters of various ages are running around their rooftop apartment in Palermo, Sicily, before their first customer of the day. The orphaned girls make their living by renting out doves for special events, which then faithfully fly back to them once released. Their home…

Have you ever noticed there’s no telling when David Lowery’s movies take place? Sure, there’s the occasional hint: a sleek Texas cityscape, a date on a newspaper. But they’re very rarely front and center. And a near-total absence of technology in his stories only goes so far to imply whether they’re set in the 1970s…

The Fall Festival Season is right around the corner with the tentative relaunches of TIFF, Telluride, and Venice into a world where movie-going has been more than a little uneasy. However, genre fans will tell you that the true start to the season comes when Montreal opens its doors to waves of films from around…

It is a delight to see the range of Joseph Gordon-Levitt onscreen again as he eases his way back into movies and TV, and a disappointment that it’s in a show as wayward, muddled, and misconceived as Apple TV+’s “Mr. Corman.”  Written, directed, produced by, and starring Gordon-Levitt, “Mr. Corman” is an unwieldy, inconsistent show…