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Located in the Jalisco Highlands, like ‘Dos Estaciones,’ ‘Warm Water’ delivers another ‘love letter’ to the directors’ homeland.

Plus: Ukrainian seige doc 'The Earth Is As Blue As An Orange,' several good indie freakouts, and 'The Exorcism of God'

"Valley Of Souls" After getting cancelled thanks to last year’s coronavirus lockdowns, the San Francisco International Film Festival (hereafter SFFILM) returns this year with its 2021 edition.  Running from April 9-18, 2021, this year’s SFFILM mixes together online streaming and live events at the Fort Mason Center drive-in.  This year’s program presents 103 films from 41 different countries.  13 of these films are World Premieres. One of these World Premieres takes Opening Night honors at the Fort Mason Center venue.  Chase Palmer’s crime drama “Naked Singularity” stars John ...

'Fauna' Review: This Elliptical Mexican Film Is a Study in Identity and Performance 'Fauna' Review: This Elliptical Mexican Film Is a Study in Identity and Performance Nicolás Pereda's latest film finds him and his actors toying with cultural tropes all too common in shows like 'Narcos: Mexico.' Manuel Betancourt, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Running time: Running time: 70 MIN. Courtesy of Toronto Film Festival “Fauna” is a curious proposition. On the surface, the ninth feature from Mexican-Canadian independent filmmaker Nicolás Pereda consists of a series of dialogue-driven scenes...

Tweet Although not quite as avant-garde as one might expect from its opening and closing images, A Shape of Things to Come is a pleasant hangout movie. It begins with solarized black-and-white drone shots of the Sonoran Desert as ominous ticking fills the soundtrack. It ends with its subject, an extremely off-the-grid man who calls himself Sundog, smoking DMT extracted from toad venom. As his trip intensifies while he lies in the grass, the film abandons its representation of nature for hand-painted animation, segueing into the closing credits.    The new documentary from direc...