Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

Mourners gather for a heartfelt burial ceremony in the Brazilian film Bacurau. The other day I went to a party and wound up talking to some millennials who are backing Bernie Sanders. The conversation ...

Paulo Leminksi, one of Brazil’s best and most cherished poets, said he learned everything from American cinema. The ethics of behavior, as he puts it, he learned from the shoot-outs in John Wayne ...

Last year’s Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner, “Bacurau,” is a provocative, bloody Brazilian genre mashup. It’s set in Western Pernambuco, “a few years from now,” in a realm of pulp fiction ...

Bacurau, the latest film by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles—which gets a US release this weekend—uses the motif of the night bird to tell the story of a small village in the Brazilian ...

One of the movies that the Magic Lantern is planning to stream on Friday (in coordination with Film Movement) is a strange little offering from Brazil titled “Bacurau.” Let’s just say that the film, ...

The incendiary Brazilian film “Bacurau” feels as though it’s teetering right on the edge of an oncoming apocalypse. As such, it’s exactly right for these times. (You can watch it in these times, too.

Blood gushes, heads roll, revelers dance and motorcycles roar in “Bacurau” and “The Wild Goose Lake,” two sensationally entertaining action thrillers that hail from two different countries — Brazil ...

Local art house theaters need your support during the coronavirus pandemic just as much as the major theater chains, and now there are several “virtual cinema” options for film lovers to support those ...

The other day I went to a party and wound up talking to some millennials who are backing Bernie Sanders. The conversation turned to the movies Parasite and Joker, and one of them wondered if the ...