Month: November 2014

[AFI Fest Review] Merchants of Doubt

Climate change deniers say a lot of ridiculous things, but there’s one specific straw man argument they frequently fall back on that is so insulting in its ridi...

[AFI Fest Review] Buzzard

In an episode of my podcast, The Cinephiliacs, colleague Vadim Rizov noted a humorous but mostly essential statement when describing his disappointment with the...

[AFI Fest Review] The Iron Ministry

While not technically made under the auspices of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, The Iron Ministry, directed by associated member J.P. Sniadecki, begins wi...

[Review] Beyond the Lights

The heady, emotional lyrics of Nina Simone’s Blackbird keep rising up under the skin of Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Beyond the Lights, revealing the earnest, strivi...

[AFI Fest Review] American Sniper

The thirty-one-month gap between the theatrical releases of 2011’s J. Edgar and this year’s Jersey Boys marked the longest such stretch in the forty-three-year-...