[Review] Bellflower
Bellflower is a tough film to describe, which might exactly be its raison d'être. Nothing about it is expected. Take the premise, for example: Woodrow (writ...
Mike Anton
[Review] The Interrupters
Chicago is plagued with a violence epidemic, a corrosive force infecting its inhabitants. Murder rates grow while a generation of young people disappears. C...
[Review] The Future
The Future, Miranda July's follow-up to 2005's critically acclaimed, Me and You and Everyone We Know is aptly named. Much like the future, it turns out dim,...
[Interview] David Robert Mitchell, Writer/Director of ‘The Myth of the American Sleepover’
I recently had the chance to sit down with David Robert Mitchell, the writer/director of The Myth of the American Sleepover, a fun little ode to growing up....
[NYAFF Review] Battlefield Heroes
Paradoxes abound in Battlefield Heroes, a South Korean film showing at the New York Asian Film Festival. Even the title itself, an English slap-on as Americ...
[NYAFF Review] A Boy and His Samurai
A Boy and His Samurai (Chonmage Purin/ちょんまげぷりん) follows a tried-and-true comedic formula: take someone from the past, stick them in the future, and laugh al...
[Review] Project Nim
A mother chimp cradles her baby in her arms. The child, named by caretakers as Nim, has been selected for an experiment to see if a chimp could learn sign l...
Transformers: A Teenage Love Song
As battle wages between the Decepticons and Autobots in Transformers: Dark of the Moon is nearly as important as the one raging around the movie between cri...
[Review] A Better Life
The idea of an "American Dream" is predicated on the idea that we all live in the same America. A Better Life, the new film from director Chris Weitz (About...
[Review] Prom
Ah, prom, that yearly event that forces boys into tuxedos, girls into gowns and parents into renting limos. It's a carefree, lighthearted final romp with yo...
