A biographical film often runs the risk of self-sabotage. The success of its actors in becoming their subjects could hijack…
Author: Kevin Parks
Kevin Parks
Kevin is a freelance writer and film critic who lives in New York. His favorite director is Robert Altman and he dearly misses Netflix's delivery DVD service.
Before a potentially perilous moment captured in Les Blank’s “Burden of Dreams,” Werner Herzog rallies the cast and crew of…
Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is a dizzying, electric maze which attacks an epic scale with an…
Ah, the musical. A relic of the past. For a time, directors couldn’t fight the impulse to make a musical:…
At an “Oh, Canada” post-screening Q&A, Uma Thurman spoke about her nervous anticipation ahead of meeting acclaimed Writer/Director Paul Schrader…
Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), the confrontational, cantankerous and miserable spitfire in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths” is so relentlessly combative that many…
David Cronenberg loves twins. In “Dead Ringers” (1988), an adaptation of Bari Wood’s novel “Twins” (remade into a 2023 miniseries…
James Baldwin (1924-1987) would’ve turned one-hundred this year, and in honor of his centennial, museum exhibits abound for the iconic…
The potential for dread and disaster looms over Neo Sora’s “Happyend,” which made its US premiere at this year’s iteration…
A couple decades ago, my friends and I played in a men’s baseball league. We had the youngest team (name:…