Asheville Movies

3 weeks ago | ashevillemovies.com | Edwin Arnaudin

The Duplass Brothers and their peers continue to make quality films. But for me, Joel Potrykus is the standard-bearer for true independent cinema. “Burst on the scene” is maybe not quite applicable for what the writer/director/editor/actor does, so let’s say he idiosyncratically wandered onto cinephiles’ radars just over a decade ago with his second feature, Buzzard, which introduced the world to mismatched buddies Marty Jackitansky (Joshua Burge) and Derek Skiba (Potrykus).

4 weeks ago | ashevillemovies.com | Edwin Arnaudin

Director Jeremy Workman has made a career documenting such unique personalities as Barbie doll photographer Al Carbee (Magical Universe), champion domino toppler Lily Hevesh (Lily Topples the World), and Matt Green (The World Before Your Feet), who walked every block of every NYC street over the course of six years.

1 month ago | ashevillemovies.com | Edwin Arnaudin

Whenever a narrative film comes along that’s critical of war, some critic is bound to trot out this oft-misquoted 1973 soundbite from Francois Truffaut: “I find that violence is very ambiguous in movies. For example, some films claim to be anti-war, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen an anti-war film. Every film about war ends up being pro-war.”This time, in response to Ray Mendoza’s and Alex Garland’s harrowing Warfare, that critic — among others — is me.

1 month ago | ashevillemovies.com | Edwin Arnaudin

If The Shrouds winds up being the last film David Cronenberg directs, it will go down as a fitting end to a legendary career. The story of GraveTech CEO Karsh (Vincent Cassel) and the fallout that occurs when his tomb-viewing invention is compromised packs all the existential musing, technological ick, body horror, and sex that one could ask for from the maker of The Fly, Videodrome, and Scanners.

2 months ago | ashevillemovies.com | Edwin Arnaudin

Residing somewhere below the double feature prestige of Barbenheimer and ConclaVenom is Snow Knights, the completely inappropriate and not recommended twofer of Disney’s live-action Snow White and — speaking of double trouble — The Alto Knights, a mob drama featuring Robert De Niro playing two characters.