Fun size candy is always a disappointment -- much like the movie of the same name, also misleading in suggesting it's both “fun” and a critique of “Halloween," ...
An intense focus on globalization connects three strands at the core of the Elemental. although the broader theme is we are all connected by virtue of starting ...
Allow me to evoke the great Tom Petty once more: the waiting is the hardest part. The Paranormal Activity “brand”-- because at this point they aren’t movies, s...
Opening next week, Seven Psychopaths contains a scene that sums up the MacGuffin driving Taken 2 – Sam Rockwell ponders the a validity of “an eye for an eye," c...
London - The Modern Babylon inspires envy: someone needs to make a film like this about every town and city, worldwide. Many aren’t as culturally as significant...
Perhaps all of the films are starting to run together. Nina Davenport’s often hilarious and extraordinarily brave First Comes Love finishes a trilogy of very ho...
It’s so easy to take cheap shots at the Tea Party; in fact what Bill Maher can do in a joke or a monologue, Janeane from Des Moines spends 77 minutes doing with...
Dan Algrant’s Greetings from Tim Buckley simultaneously tracks the artistic development of musician father and son Tim and Jeff Buckley at around the same times...
The opening title explains that the Ship of Theseus was replaced, piece by piece, and rebuilt into a new ship – therefore the questions is asked: which ship is ...
It takes a deranged mind to be this fascinated with psychopaths, let alone seven of them. Colin Farrell’s Marty gets to quite literally take his work home with ...
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.
