Netflix's latest rom-com, Love. Wedding. Repeat, is an adaptation of a 2012 French film called Plan de table, a film that as far as I can gather never had much of a release outside of France and Italy and even then was not terribly well received. Writer/director Dean Craig adapts the story ...

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Though he's been a productive filmmaker for the last twenty years or so, I wasn't familiar with writer/director Corneliu Porumboiu's work until The Whistlers, a heist film that manages to entertain with plenty of originality even if it gets itself tied up in a few narrative knots here and ...

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Polish filmmaker Malgorzata Szumowska's dramatic feature In the Name Of... won the award for Best Feature Film at 2013's Berlin Film Festival and received a sufficiently warm welcome when it was release in the US later that year. Since then, she's directed a couple of other Polish-language titles ...

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Every week, all kinds of new content lands on Netflix without much fanfare. Like a tree falling in the woods, if there isn't a pandemic to keep us all home, does anyone notice? Now that we are home, the streaming service is serving up plenty worth checking out, from a trippy limited series about big ...

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If you know nothing at all about it, a film with the title Crip Camp might not immediately jump to the top of your Netflix queue. Rest assured, it should. An official selection at January’s Sundance Film Festival (back when there were such things as film festivals), the ...

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