The 21st century has seen any number of films about the stories people tell themselves in order to rationalize and reconfigure their trauma, but none have been more raw or powerfully true to life than ...

Gregg Araki is ready to bring “Mysterious Skin” into the 2020s: The writer/director will unveil the 4K restoration of the acclaimed 2004 indie at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on September 19 ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. Robert Redford died this week at age 89 at his home outside Provo, Utah. The actor, ...

Toward the end of my interview with Gregg Araki, I remind him of his scene from Michael Almereyda and Amy Hobby’s 1995 documentary At Sundance. Sitting on a couch next to Todd Haynes, Araki is at that ...

This week, the world mourns the tragic loss of 39-year-old film and television star Michelle Trachtenberg. Thanks to her spunky attitude, unique style, and her many roles that fell outside the realm ...

Spoiler Alert: This post contains major plot spoilers for Mysterious Skin. Scott Heim’s 1995 novel Mysterious Skin, which was later adapted into a film by Gregg Araki, tells the story of two Kansas ...