Month: March 2015

[ND/NF Review] The Fool

By now, the lengthy following shot to open a film is an art-house approved cliché. But in The Fool, Yuri Bykov complicates the shot in a way that makes it feel ...

[ND/NF Review] K

For Franz Kafka, The Castle is about the plight of the individual within oppressive societal customs and the absurd attempt to reach an unattainable. Michael Ha...

[ND/NF Review] The Great Man

A Great Man is divided up into five chapters, the first four of which trace the latter half of the first chapter’s “Hamilton and Markov” duo, while the final, f...

[ND/NF Review] Fort Buchanan

To the right crowd, there are a lot of familiar faces in Benjamin Crotty’s Fort Buchanan, a look into the life of a number of mostly-sexually frustrated army sp...

[SXSW Review] We Are Still Here

Throwback horror film We Are Still Here never loses a sense of quiet fun running underneath it. Clearly a loving send-up to films of the past, writer-director T...

[SXSW Review] The Final Girls

Horror comedy has long been one of the most difficult genres mixes to pull off successfully. For The Final Girls, a high-concept meta riff on the slasher horror...