Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf is the story of a marriage crumbling in a void. Read More
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Ethan Warren is the writer-director of the independent feature film West of Her, and the recipient of the 2018 Boston Project playwriting fellowship at SpeakEasy stage company. A graduate of the MFA program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, his writing has been featured at New Limestone Review, Furious Gazelle, and the Stage-It! 10-Minute play anthology. He lives in the Boston area with his wife, Caitlin, and their children, Nora and Liam.
Lots of comedies are funny because they’re goofy, but Step Brothers is funny for the liminality of the world in which it takes place, a world hovering between live-action cartoon and kitchen-sink reality so precariously that it almost seems to violate the laws of comedy physics. Read More
In the world of Jarmusch’s film, the purpose of work lies not in external achievement, but in the personal satisfaction of doing. Read More
Pet Sematary is not a movie that cares about your sensitivities. What it does care about, to the point of obsession, is bodies—and the horrors that can befall them. Read More
Fahrenheit 451 is often hailed as a dire vision that’s only become more relevant with time. And yet there is so little in this story that I recognize from the world around me. Read More
Punch-Drunk Love—Paul Thomas Anderson’s fourth film, released when he was just 32 years old—puts you on uncertain footing from the very first frame. Read More
don’t often remember my dreams. But I often wake up uneasy. And the stronger that unease, the better I can... Read More
The 10 Best Supporting Performances in The Informant! Read More
"For all its whimsy, the core of Brigsby Bear is one of simmering hurt—the story of someone forced, at the gentle but firm insistence of people who can’t understand him, to try and move beyond a lifelong trauma that he can only barely recognize as such." Read More
There’s sorrow and pain all around us, but in Guy Maddin’s movies, there’s no way to live on except to recognize it, accept it, and build a life that fits alongside. Read More
A quartet of true "Acid Westerns" (El Topo, Zachariah, Greaser's Palace, and Dead Man) wrestle with and adapt religious traditions, synthesizing the spirit of the Wild West with the spirit of 1960s psychedelic culture. Read More