Ryan is a lifestyle and culture journalist born and raised in the Philippines. He primarily covers film, television, music, and all things pop culture. Beyond writing, you can find him buried in ...

2003. The year that University spat me from its motherly vagina, kicking and screaming into the real world. Armed with a trusty 2.1 in Film Studies (impressed?), the world was my proverbial oyster.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/Alamy/WikiCommons It’s one of the most shocking ...

With one of his most acclaimed films, Climax, getting a U.S. release this year (and now on Amazon Prime) as well as a brand-new medium-length work, Lux Æterna, premiering at Cannes, Gaspar Noé is ...

Irreversible is a film that represents a certain quandary – it is a film that is so staggeringly difficult to watch that it casts a long shadow of doubt over recommending it to others, and indeed ...

A celluloid memento mori that unspools in reverse from gut-wrenching violence to sweetly observed moments of sublime tenderness, "Irreversible" is a demanding but rewarding emotional odyssey in a ...

Aki Kaurismaki’s deadpan meditation on human hope and misfortune “The Man Without a Past” (Finland) takes home the top honors in indieWIRE’s second-annual foreign-language film survey. In a year ...

The Society made its oral submission today to the nine-member Film and Literature Board of Review to have the R18 French film “Irreversible” banned or significantly cut. Board members had viewed the ...

It’s one of the most shocking scenes in cinema history: A woman named Alex (Monica Bellucci) walks through an underpass. While walking, she witnesses a man attacking another woman. The other woman ...