This is an amusing short little film that graciously does not even tilt toward existential meandering. We have before us a road-trip, but there is little concern as to the destination, or even journey itself – but simply the reactivity of the filmmaker touring his film at every tiny hole-in-the-wall with a projector, a screen, and theatre seating.   The filmmaker, from....

  I admit, To the Wonder goes above my head. Terrence Malik appears to be fleshing out a technique he has adopted since The Thin Red Line, where he is transforming film into cinematic literature. Which is not to de-elevate cinema with this synergy – only that the style is very literary, which makes it more cryptic when digesting.   What do we know about what is being told....

Nightcrawlers is a more dramatic rendition of Anchorman 2. The latter’s unanticipated profound brilliance in satirizing the remediation of news, a product that is presented to convey truth about the world the audience viewer inhabits, is nothing more than another occupation in mindful distractions away from that same world, which is never always hospitable to the subject which inhabits it.....