“The Cremator” is a re-release of Czech director Juraj Herz’s unsettling 1968 effort about a deeply macabre man who slowly becomes a monster. The film has been enjoying somewhat of a revival of late, having been screened at a number of festivals, and even though it is now nearly forty...

There is a very disturbing trend in cinema nowadays. I used to think it was just American cinema, but it appears that, with “Dark Blue World,” even the international community is getting into the act. That trend? What I like to call the Trivial Love Triangle During a Major Historical Event...