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Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 9h

LOOKING THROUGH WATER uses fishing and fatherhood to stand as the final Michael Douglas role before his retirement. filmobsessive.com?p=295776

A young man and an elderly man talk on a rowboat in Looking Through Water.

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 1d

Film Obsessive has the exclusive first look at Sissy Spacek in Lynne Ramsey's highly anticipated upcoming film, DIE, MY LOVE. filmobsessive.com?p=295863

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 1d

Edward Berger's BALLAD IF A SMALL PLAYER is like a poker player who is satisfied with folding constantly at the blackjack table. filmobsessive.com?p=295835

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 1d

THE WEED HACKER MASSACRE is a satirical horror comedy that's more likely to earn laughs amusing folks who appreciate its cinematic missteps. filmobsessive.com?p=295828

Sean Reyna as Poker Face in The Weed Hacker Massacre. Buffalo 8. Screen capture off Amazon. Villainous masked slasher Poker Face holding his bladed weed hacker.

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 2d

Fifteen years after its release, THE SOCIAL NETWORK remains an exciting, prickly depiction of the rise of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. filmobsessive.com?p=295468

David Fincher's The Social Network (2010). Credit: Columbia Pictures.

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 3d

The 10th Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards have named their contenders for this year's prestigious awards. filmobsessive.com?p=295796

An imagined image of an indoor future in Orwell: 2+2=5, a nominee at the 10th Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards.

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 3d

Jay Glennie's new book, THE MAKING OF ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD, goes behind the scenes of Quentin Tarantino's 2019 hit. buff.ly/fwQXFbf

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Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 4d

THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED, Jacques Audiard's César-winning 2005 breakthrough, joins The Criterion Collection on Blu-ray. filmobsessive.com?p=295433

Raomain Duris as Thomas, wearing headphones while walking the streets.

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 5d

WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU shows the significant continued evolution of Hong Sang-soo's independent craft. filmobsessive.com?p=295761

A family eats dinner together in What Does That Nature Say To You

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 5d

Benson and Moorhead's The Endless is a slick indie sci-fi with deep themes about family and plenty of cosmic horror. filmobsessive.com?p=295466

Justin and Aaron visit a memorial on the side of the road.

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 6d

THE THREESOME is a touching portrait of people figuring out themselves in the messiness of the modern dating world. filmobsessive.com?p=294439

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Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 7d

Emily Mkrtichian discusses the highs and lows behind the making of her groundbreaking directorial debut, THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT. buff.ly/7G7A0rQ

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Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 7d

THE FRENCH ITALIAN is an offbeat comedy about city living, noisy neighbors, and petty revenge that feature knock out performances. filmobsessive.com?p=295685

Doug and Valarie are sitting together in The French Italian

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 7d

TRON: ARES has the inenviable task of trying to reignite excitement in a potential movie franchise 15 years later. filmobsessive.com?p=295693

A lightcycle blazes down a city street in Tron: Ares.

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 8d

ROOFMAN is a crime comedy that charmingly distracts from its peculiar core, a true story inspired romance about a thief stealing a heart. filmobsessive.com?p=295650

Channing Tatum stars in Paramount Pictures' "ROOFMAN." The titular thief plays in a Toys 'R' Us store, parading goofily down the aisles carrying a large stuffed teddy bear.

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 8d

THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT explores the lives of four Artsakh-born women fighting for their rights and, when war breaks out, fighting for their homes. filmobsessive.com?p=295642

A woman in a red floral shirt looks through a window down at a city.

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Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 9d

Executive director of Black Public Media, Leslie Fields-Cruz, talks loss of federal funding and fight for Black stories. buff.ly/NDjhq70

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 9d

Kathryn Bigelow crafts a powder keg of modern anxieties in Netflix's A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE but forgets to light the fuse. buff.ly/BqLRvNC

Olivia answers a call in the situation room

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 10d

JOHN CANDY: I LIKE Me is a rare documentary that can justify its lionization and idolization of its subject. filmobsessive.com?p=295622

A man imitates the look of a baby carried on his back in John Candy: I Like Me.

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 10d

DEATH OF A LADIES' MAN chooses two stellar vibes between Leonard Cohen's music and Gabriel Byrne's charisma. buff.ly/K1aIQJC

A man lifts a drink to his mouth in Death of a Ladies' Man

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 10d

AFFECTION looks at the pain nostalgia can inflict on the present day and at how chasing the past will never bode well for the future. filmobsessive.com?p=295617

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 11d

I ONLY REST IN THE STORM, which recently premiered at the 63rd New York Film Festival, digs into the grey areas of neocolonialism. filmobsessive.com?p=295556

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 11d

Criterion's presentation of Lizzie Borden's late-second-wave feminist manifesto BORN IN FLAMES does its subject justice. filmobsessive.com?p=295362

Honey (played by Honey, center) addresses her radio audience in Born in Flames.

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Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 12d

THE ROCK has been in 39 feature films as an actor. Most of his roles are quite poor, but reveal an insecurity and inner pain in the star. buff.ly/UyGDQAC

A still from THE SMASHING MACHINE, where Mark Kerr (The Rock) sits exhaustedly against a pillar in a gym.

Film Obsessive @filmobsessive.com · 13d

Denis' The Fence feels like a late work from the auteur, but it's undeniably compelling in its strengths and weaknesses. filmobsessive.com?p=295507