Magic Trip
Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters’ trip across America in the summer of 1964 is a keystone of the countercultural mythos.
Review by Mark Stafford
Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters’ trip across America in the summer of 1964 is a keystone of the countercultural mythos.
Review by Mark Stafford
Welcome to the stocky, pudgy face of evil.
Review by Mark Stafford
Na Hong-jin’s exhilarating film is a game of two halves, first a portrait of a desperate loser’s life, then a high-octane gore-flecked black comic shocker.
Review by Mark Stafford
In rain-drenched pre-millennium Shibuya, Tokyo, a grotesque discovery is made, the dissected corpse of a woman, her limbs and torso bizarrely mixed with parts of a shop dummy.
Review by Mark Stafford
Part horror movie, siege drama and political screed, Kevin Smith’s Red State is an unsubtle broadside blow at Kansas’s Westboro Baptist Church, federal incompetence and post-9/11 national security.
Review by Mark Stafford
It’s a film of bone-deep misanthropic anger whose targets are the sensationalist media and the careless exploitation of the Third World.
Review by Mark Stafford
Faye Jackson’s winningly offbeat vampire/zombie picture is a welcome addition to the genre.
Review by Mark Stafford
A bracing stroll through an emergent American Muslim punk sub-culture.
Review by Mark Stafford
Liz Garbus’s absorbing documentary tells the strange and tragic story of self-taught chess prodigy Bobby Fischer.
Review by Mark Stafford
Daniel Monzón’s Cell 211 is a terrific, angry piece of genre filmmaking.
Review by Mark Stafford