Humanity itself is a combination of two divergent forces: reason and fury (at least that's what The Tree of Life teaches us). These are two states of being that...
Putin's Kiss, the Sundance Festival-approved documentary on the modern state of Russia, shares similarities with its subject. Director Lise Birk Pedersen's debu...
Man On A Ledge is a film that will be revered in Screenwriting I classes all across this great nation. Like a beacon of hope, this "action thriller" will embold...
While watching War Horse, the Steven Spielberg picture whose trench warfare sequences evoked the great Stanley Kubrick film Paths of Glory, I was reminded o...
Judging by the advertisements for Contraband, I expected to watch a half-baked actioner with big beats and little brains (let alone heart). Instead the film...
One of the greatest lessons I received from my film school education was a tossaway bon mot from a faculty advise, upset that I didn't have time to take a ...
I was recently afforded the opportunity to talk to Alex Stapleton, the director of the wonderful documentary Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (...
Roger Corman is an interesting character. He's a provocateur, a goof, a "schlockmaster," a great assembler of talent, an independent film legend, an interna...
You can find Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory at the rarefied juncture where reality and art meet, with each pulling the other to form something greater than simp...
The most striking emotion you experience watching Tahrir, the cinéma vérité-styled documentary directed and filmed by Stefano Savona, is joy. And not just w...
