Adults need fairy tales too and Thomas McCarthy--with cowriter Paul Sado--deliver one in The Cobbler. They don't try to pretend it's something more, either, as ...
Sometimes one just needs to cleanse their palette or expand their mind by checking out a film even the director says is all about the experience. So when Peter ...
Forty-two short films were selected as part of the Toronto International Film Festivals 2014 iteration of Short Cuts Canada. Showcasing a slew of up-and...
Who knew cows could be a symbol of freedom, resistance, self-sufficiency, and identity? On the surface it's absurd and yet they became Palestinian town Beit Sah...
There are some huge ebbs and flows in Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler. At times I loved it, others I felt bad for laughing, and some instances made me wonder what exa...
There's a great reference in Welcome to Me about Cindy Sherman that many may gloss over. Director Shira Piven and screenwriter Eliot Laurence made mention to Ne...
After enjoying Ruba Nadda's Inescapable and hearing praise for Cairo Time I was intrigued by her latest effort, October Gale. For whatever reason Nadda doesn't ...
I kept trying to think about what films Zhang Yimou's Coming Home reminded me of while watching. Obvious ones came to mind like Away From Her and Amour where Go...
Every movie should have a score by Ludovico Einaudi and it's comforting to see Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano agree. After using his haunting music on the sk...
We are the pale blue dot of Earth? No. We're the intermittently blinking light on the end of an out-of-touch parent's device for transparently spying on the ele...
