Filters, editing apps, and AI selfie generators like Lensa, Remini, and Photo AI are altering our perception of ourselves and ...

Those familiar with indie artist Phil Elverum’s work in The Microphones and Mount Eerie might not consider him a fitting listen for Valentine’s Day. Whether he’s musing about breakups, using Zen ...

Hand-labeled VHS tapes line the shelves of the living room where Conor Marsh (Albert Birney), a 36-year-old man living alone with his dog Sandy in 1987 Baltimore, spends many hours watching late ...

This analog library of thrilling fictions and ephemeral images preserved on tape is part of the bevy of references in “Obex,” a miniature epic of melancholic whimsy endearingly conceived in ...

Heimann makes the most of limited resources, crafting a vibrant and alive world. The film’s lo-fi aesthetic is part of its charm, adding intimacy. Its influences from zany vintage Japanese ...

This broader comfort aesthetic uses the same body of tropes, like cats and cafés. An IMDB photo shows actor Kaoru Kobayashi in the Japanese television show Midnight Diner. The show is part of an ...

“Inheritance,” directed by Neil Burger and written by Burger and Olen Steinhauer, immediately plunges us into Maya’s world, captured with a gritty, grungy lo-fi aesthetic. Soundtracked to ...

“Inheritance” is lively in its nervous, handheld-camera aesthetic, but never terribly ... limited by her being a naive pawn in a bigger picture, but Dynevor easily demonstrates the screen ...

Within the first five minutes of “Inheritance,” Maya (Phoebe Dynevor) has stolen a bottle of tequila, gone home with a stranger from a rave and dangled her legs out his window while smoking.