Slant Magazine

One of the great pioneers of the early Czech film industry, director and writer Jan S. Kolár (1896 – 1973) worked in a number of genres: supernatural fantasy, medieval epics, romantic melodrama, sci-fi and more. Deaf Crocodile is thrilled to collaborate with the Národní filmový archív, Prague and Comeback Company on this first-ever Blu-ray release of two of Kolár’s fin...

In Harry Lighton’s Pillion, adapted from Adam Mars-Jones’s novel Box Hill: A Story of Low Self Esteem, a timid man, Colin (Harry Melling), is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker, Ray (Alexander Skarsgård), takes...

After a seven-year absence, Oscar-winning director Miloš Forman returned with the epic tale of Larry Flynt: hillbilly underdog, eccentric entrepreneur, and founder of Hustler magazine. A cinematic tour de force that follows the tribulations of one of America’s most unapologetic iconoclasts, The People vs. Larry Flynt is a wild ride, screaming at the t...

Don’t call it a comeback, call it a resurrection. Nicolas Winding Refn returns to feature filmmaking with Her Private Hell for the first time in a decade after working on multiple streaming series that left him feeling creatively depleted. Also, thanks...

“We’re so inspired/Basically all of the time,” Charli XCX sings on “Rock Music,” the opening track of her new album, Music, Fashion, Film. She’s talking about herself and her friends, but the conspicuous pause between the lines is telling, and what initially sounds like a playfully cocky flex becomes a kind of question.

That assertion of selfhood and i...