Director: Dash Shaw Stars: Zoe Kazan, Lake Bell, Angeliki Papoulia In the hand-drawn fantasia of Jane Samborski and Dash Shaw's Cryptozoo, mythical animals, chimeras and bestial hybrids - Cryptids - exist, gathered by humans to the titular sanctuary in the American MidWest; a kind of amusement park that creates revenue to help rescue more of …
Ranked: Kelly Reichardt
The work of Kelly Reichardt is considered immortal here at The Lost Highway Hotel. She is, without a doubt, one of the premiere filmmakers working in the United States at the moment. Her work is parred down, particular and poetic in its affinity to the Midwest, its people and history. Her oeuvre is a landlocked …
Review: The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Stars: Zoe Kazan, Tom Waits, Liam Neeson The Coen Brothers have made Westerns before, and more than just the two 'obvious ones'; the Texan noir of No Country For Old Men and their adventurous remake of True Grit. In truth the West has scored through much of their cinema which is resplendent …
Review: Wildlife
Director: Paul Dano Stars: Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould, Jake Gyllenhaal In the third act of Paul Dano's exceptional directorial debut Wildlife, the headlights of the Brinson family car illuminate a worn down fascia of an old building. It looks as though it might've once said 'Davidson' on it. Perhaps Harley? Clarity is gone. Lost in the …