War, of course, is hell. We know this, but it stands that we should be reminded now and again. With The Yellow Birds, filmmaker Alexandre Moors tries to find be...
One of the finest comedy directors working today, Friends with Money and Enough Said helmer Nicole Holofcener has set her ensemble for her latest feature Th...
What happens when your mother is in prison, and feel like you could no longer afford to attend college? For the characters in Deidra & Laney Rob a Train...
“I have loved you for the last time,” Sufjan Stevens sings in his original song “Visions of Gideon” in Call Me By Your Name. It’s a moment of both bittersweet h...
The glitz, the glamour, the gift baskets that do as much to sway voters as a slaved-over work of art -- it's the 89th Academy Awards! AMPAS unveiled their t...
The road to a respectable life is a demanding one for Menashe. He barely makes enough money as a grocery clerk to pay the rent of his small apartment. He is shu...
If you've seen Touch of Evil in its restored 1998 edition and never bothered to learn its history, you might be shocked that a work so deftly orchestrated -...
It's one of the more preposterous set-ups for an action movie in recent years, and potentially among the most offensive: a male assassin is kidnapped by his...
It's commonplace for a fan to say of an actor or actress they like: "I would watch him or her in anything." The Hero, written and directed by Brett Haley, makes...
Having completed his "clusterfuck trilogy," Jeremy Saulnier has hit the big time: Netflix, baby! The Calgary Herald have learned the Blue Ruin and Green Roo...