…I was making a film called Play that was about really young boys robbing other young boys in the city where I lived. These robberies were kind of special because…
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Bright Young Things: Geraldine Viswanathan’s intelligent young women
…plays Becky, a kind of straight-man teenage girl whose comedic force derives from clever digs and sarcastic comebacks. In her first scene, when Becky crashes her brother’s all-boys camping trip,…
Best of TIFF14: Lone Scherfig’s The Riot Club explores the darker side of privilege
…a hotel before sleeping with his barely consenting step-sister. Like Chuck Bass, these boys were raised in the lap of luxury and privilege. As they say in Britain, they’re posh,…
Ferit Karahan revisited his time at a Turkish boarding school for the chilling Brother’s Keeper
…help you do just that. → Send me the guide In Brother’s Keeper, eleven-year-old Kurdish boys are treated more like prisoners than students at an Eastern Anatolian boarding school. They’re…
The 30 best films of 2021
…The initiation process starts on the train to the training facility, where the boys preemptively get drunk, and take out their aggression on any target they can. One such target…
Danis Goulet on her Indigenous sci-fi thriller Night Raiders
…Send me the guide The logline for Cree filmmaker Danis Goulet’s sci-fi feature debut, Night Raiders, sounds eerily familiar: “In a post-apocalyptic future, children are considered state property. Separated from…