Rebecca Pahle

One of the standout films at the 2018 Fantasia International Film Festival, Yoko Yamanaka’s debut feature Amiko (review here) tells of a teenage girl who runs off to Tokyo in pursuit of the object of her affections, a “he’s a popular soccer player, but he’s deeper than he looks, really” type who...

Japanese ghouls come to live in this inventive, chilling horror offering.

David Robert Mitchell becomes the latest director to take on Hollywood--in the metaphorical sense, that is--in the wild, wooly, riveting 'Under the Silver Lake.'

Ask film historian Shelley Stamp, UC Santa Cruz professor and founding editor of Feminist Media Histories, about misconceptions people have concerning early female filmmakers, and her immediate answer is this: “That there weren’t any.” The names most people know from the first decades of film...