Well-acted and confidently crafted, the indie thriller “Scrap” explores messy family dynamics with low-key but taut intensity, eschewing the usual pillars of dysfunctional clan comedy or high drama driven by screaming matches and shocking revelations. Since its debut at the 2022 Deauville Film Festival, American writer-director Vivian Kerr’s debut feature has been circling the festival … Read more
Margaret Atwood is best known as the author of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and more than a dozen other novels, but she decided to expand with her latest release. “Paper Boat” is a 60-year-old collection of poems, written over the course of her career. Michelle Miller has more.
When Oscar Katakura’s “Wiñaypacha” (“Immortality”) was released in 2017, it was the first feature film to be made entirely in Aymara, the language of the Aymara people in the Andean region. A poetic exploration of a changing world grounded in the beautiful views of that often inhospitable landscape, heralded the young Peruvian writer-director (barely 30 … Read more