The tragedy of the X-Men films is that, despite being responsible for the current boom-industry of comic-book films, they have almost uniformly felt like second...
With a gentle humor in the light of the pain it explores, Julio Medem’s Ma Ma keeps it lens squarely focused on Penélope Cruz’s Magda, a young mother diagnosed ...
It may be called Pelé: Birth of a Legend, but Jeff and Michael Zimbalist's film is really about Ginga soccer and Brazil at risk of losing its soul. The climax d...
An arson insurance scam attempt gone tragically wrong leaves low-rent criminal Elvis Martini (Nickola Shreli) with little to hold onto besides his young daughte...
Like its namesake mutt, Dream Alliance, Dark Horse is an easy documentary to underestimate -- an archetypal underdog story of a working-class town coming toget...
It all begins with Once Upon a Time. Such a simple introduction for Belladonna of Sadness, a 1973 Japanese animated feature whose newfound legacy includes a dec...
After a string of hits in the 80s and 90s, director Rob Reiner has struggled to achieve the same success. Some of his projects post-2000 have made money and som...
There are indie film scenes like the one chronicled in Actor Martinez everywhere, ones where those with a day job have ambitions that cannot and never will pay ...
In seeking to create an expansive multi-film universe, Marvel has managed to both bless and curse each of its subsequent films. The blessing comes in the form o...
I have no doubt that one day gifted visual storyteller Ed Gass-Donnelly will make a brilliant work. With four features under his belt, including This Beautiful ...
