Month: January 2013

[Sundance Review] Fruitvale Station

On New Year’s Day 2009, 22-year-old Oscar Grant's life was taken by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California, leaving behind his longterm gi...

[Sundance Review] Touchy Feely

Something of a Sundance darling, Lynn Shelton mastered the art of the micro-drama with Humpday and Your Sister's Sister, two small indies with high concepts and...

[Sundance Review] I Used To Be Darker

There is an ease at which Matthew Porterfield's I Used To Be Darker moves that is at once aggravating and captivating. Telling the deceivingly simple tale of on...

[Review] Parker

There's an energy to Parker in the violence and kinetic action that is, at times, stunning. Yet, somehow the star of the film is pushed to the side by those ele...

[Review] Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

Fairy tales are a nasty business, and the works of the Brothers Grimm are no exception. The watered down versions readers know now once scared German tots with ...

[Sundance Review] Don Jon

One has to give props to the multi-talented Joseph Gordon-Levitt for pulling off something special with his directorial debut Don Jon's Addiction. In addition t...

[Sundance Review] Hell Baby

With its title and talent, one can at least establish some expectations for the experience that is Hell Baby, the latest absurd, idiotic and mostly hilarious fi...