Damien Chazelle. The whole time that I was writing out this piece ‘Chazelle’ kept auto-correcting to ‘a gazelle’. Hmmmm. Not too far off. Damien Chazelle's aesthetic as a director is much like that of a gazelle. He brings a nimble tempo to dilute the weight of all the heavy emotions his characters bring to their story

Just 10 minutes into the 2020 coming-of-age film The Half of It (2020), director Alice Wu already gives away the ending. This isn’t a love story, and the characters don’t get what they want.

Throughout the course of modern civilization, where monarchies and strict social class structures prevailed, to achieve the upper echelons of society there was one prerequisite: a strong lineage that was wealthy as well.

Bishal Dutta is an up-and-coming director whose work has been celebrated at festivals across the globe. As a film student at UC Berkeley, his intimate drama Life in Color—currently available on Amazon Prime—was featured in the Emerging Filmmakers Showcase at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

The War Movie. The war movie has always been a revered medium, one of the most iconic genres in film. Time and time again we see the genre reinvented, with each director putting a new spin on what a war movie should accomplish.

Stripped of the constant flow of information that pervades daily life, how could you confirm that the world around you has perished? Dan Trachtenberg’s brilliant film 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) explores this phenomenon, assisted by the tropes of irrational conspiracy theories, captive and capturer, and conventional apocalyptic cinema.