A user took to Instagram to share a review of a Miniso sipper sparking alarm over the safety of the brand’s products, with a video that shows a woman unknowingly ingesting sharp plastic bits ...

Albert Birney’s endearingly crafted, black-and-white idiosyncratic vision of a life consumed by media dabbles in darkness while on a quest to its life-affirming intent. Hand-labeled VHS tapes ...

This is hand-crafted cinema. Conor, a recluse making a living by “redrawing” photographs on his Mac computer using symbols, won’t even leave the house to get groceries. Instead, his neighbor ...

This analog library of thrilling fictions and ephemeral images preserved on tape is part of the bevy of references in “Obex,” a miniature epic of melancholic whimsy endearingly conceived in ...

Heimann makes the most of limited resources, crafting a vibrant and alive world. The film’s lo-fi aesthetic is part of its charm, adding intimacy. Its influences from zany vintage Japanese ...

“Inheritance,” directed by Neil Burger and written by Burger and Olen Steinhauer, immediately plunges us into Maya’s world, captured with a gritty, grungy lo-fi aesthetic. Soundtracked to ...

but ultimately hollow sci-fi aesthetic. Section 31 deeply wants to evoke to its audience that its heroes are cool, what they’re doing is cool, and even that the way that they’re all atypical ...

“Inheritance” is lively in its nervous, handheld-camera aesthetic, but never terribly exciting or suspenseful. That’s okay, since our protagonist isn’t Jason Bourne. She’s a youth in way ...

Within the first five minutes of “Inheritance,” Maya (Phoebe Dynevor) has stolen a bottle of tequila, gone home with a stranger from a rave and dangled her legs out his window while smoking.