Diary of a Wimpy Kid appeals to me much in the same way that watching a rerun of Full House on ABC Family does. It’s become comfort food. Luckily, the three fil...
Dance movies, not unlike pornography, deliver exactly what they promise, sometimes dressed up with a “plot.” Step Up Revolution delivers both a plot (a lame lov...
I suppose you can describe The Watch (formerly Neighborhood Watch) as high concept, and perhaps high might be the state one would be in to enjoy it. Here we hav...
Having worked both within the studio system and out of it, the brothers Mark and Jay Duplass whose work can be categorized as the must successful of the mum...
While not exactly “lost” for four years – we all know the perils of keeping busy - Mark and Jay Duplass' The Do-Deca-Pentathlon was shot before Cyrus and ha...
Sports in films have been a cultural celebration, predating Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia also owing its linage to Thomas Edison’s early experiments in motion. Cro...
In their hit song, "Hey Jealousy," the Gin Blossoms suggest that if “you don’t expect too much from me, you might not get let down.” I admit I approached What t...
If only October Baby played it straight with no agenda. The advent of the mega-church I believe has led to a mega-church sponsored filmmaking, with Courageous b...
IS 318, a Brooklyn public school residing in an area with a 70% poverty rate, with a top ranked chess team is the subject of the uplifting doc Brooklyn Castle. ...
Gayby is not without laughs – however while half the jokes do land, there is a realization the film is at its core a sitcom. It’s saving grace is that it has mo...
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.
