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 ...

Marking the 20th anniversary of Mysterious Skin‘s theatrical release, writer and director Gregg Araki is revisiting one of his most emotionally raw films, which is now more timely than ever. “When I ...

Of all the representations of pedophilia in movies recently, from "Mystic River" to Kevin Bacon's powerful performance as a recovering abuser in "The Woodsman" to Todd Solondz's treatment of the ...

"So many people have come up to me after screenings of that movie, and because they’ve been abused, it’s so, so triggering," Araki told IndieWire of his 2004 indie landmark starring Joseph ...