File this one under, "how can it be wrong when it feels so right." Grown Ups 2 isn’t quite a guilty pleasure, but as a fun summer comedy it hits the spot, or pe...
Directed by Leslie Small and Tim Story, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain is more of a Comedy Central special than a theatrical film. This isn’t to say Kevin Hart does...
Yi-Kwan Kang’s Juvenile Offender is a film 2Pac would have endorsed, as its struggle feels completely universal: misguided youths are bound to repeat when anoth...
More snarky than academic, Jamie Kastner’s Secret Disco Revolution begins with the thesis that disco was an underground movement orchestrated by the shadowy pow...
Even by today’s standards, The Morton Downey Jr. Show was extreme; described as a talk show with a hockey crowd, his show has been viewed as a predecessor for c...
Fresh Meat takes several “-isms" and throws them into a hilarious blender. The film works as an uncompromisingly dark horror comedy with director Danny Mulheron...
1st Night is a classy screwball comedy, so gorgeously lensed and very British, we almost forget just how silly the material might be had the same premise been a...
I don’t know any birders in real life, but on the whole, they sure do seem like nice folks. After the delightful, yet little seen, The Big Year and the even mor...
Kanpur, India is known as the Manchester of the East; an industrial town in the North, it's grappling with the realities of globalization, embodying the fundame...
John Fink is a New York City area-based critic, filmmaker, educator and curator. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Buffalo International Film Festival.
