When White Noise begins, a title indicates that Thomas Edison suggested in 1928 that the dead might communicate with the living by means of radio waves. A second title notes that such communications, known as the electronic voice phenomenon (EVP), have been observed from 1939 and that the phenomenon is increasingly being studied seriously. At the end, […]

  3-Iron, directed by Kim Ki-Duk, ends with a title proclaiming that sometimes reality and fantasy are indistinguishable. The film’s title refers to one of the clubs used in golf that plays a significant role in the film. Tae-Suk (played by Jae Hee), a college student with a motorcycle, evidently has nothing to do during

5×2: Cinq Fois Deux, directed by François Ozon, is a character study in which filmviewers are challenged to infer the reason for the divorce between Gilles (played by Stéphane Freiss) and Marion (played by Valérie Bruni-Tedeschi) after a marriage from 1999-2003. More subliminally, the perils of bisexuality are exposed in a five-act story that is

The Intended, directed by Kristian Levring, takes place at an ivory trading settlement in the jungle of Sarawak, Malaysia, on the Menkuang River during 1924. Twentysomething Hamish Winslow (played by JJ Feild) and his fortysomething fiancée Sarah Morris (played by Janet McTeer) are aboard a barge headed for the settlement, Ivory Bay. When they arrive,