On January 5th, Bad Bunny released his sixth studio album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (I should have taken more photos). By now, you will find no shortage of reviews and/or social media posts about the album, which at the time of writing this, is number one on …
After creating a spreadsheet that listed every Criterion-related movie (initially through their disc releases and later on via the various streaming services they've offered), I began the series with Nanook of the North (1922) and I've been plugging away at it ever since! I covered a lot …
Released the year before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Karen Shakhnazarov’s absurdist satire Zerograd captures the disorientation and terror of gradually coming to realize that you live in a reality you no longer recognize. Arriving in a remote city in order to get a replacement for …
The 1969 Czech anthology film Prague Nightsconsists of a trio of tales of lust, revenge, and feminine wiles, each infused with a singular combination of the macabre, the grotesque, and the comically sensual in depicting some of the darkest and most mysterious aspects of Czech culture. Between …