Reviews

[Review] Get Hard

The premise behind Etan Cohen's directorial debut, Get Hard, should work. A super-rich finance wiz named James King (Will Ferrell) is convicted for numerous cou...

[Review] Man From Reno

Even though it’s a slow-boil mystery, Man From Reno is film that engages quickly and keeps one transfixed. Like the hard-boiled detective films and noir fiction...

[SXSW Review] Heaven Knows What

There’s a repulsion instinct that makes Heaven Knows What one of the more compelling films on the festival tour this past year. Exploring the plights of the mid...

[SXSW Review] Peace Officer

We all like to trust in law enforcement and the justice system, but when it comes to the police of our municipalities it has become increasingly evident that so...

[SXSW Review] The Invitation

When you play in the midnight slot of a film festival nowadays, audiences can expect something to go horribly wrong within the world of the movie. So going into...

[Review] Zombeavers

Right from the start of director Jordan Rubin's Zombeavers, the film scores points for originality. Its horror-comedy tone is familiar, but not until 2015, some...

[ND/NF Review] The Fool

By now, the lengthy following shot to open a film is an art-house approved cliché. But in The Fool, Yuri Bykov complicates the shot in a way that makes it feel ...

[ND/NF Review] K

For Franz Kafka, The Castle is about the plight of the individual within oppressive societal customs and the absurd attempt to reach an unattainable. Michael Ha...

[ND/NF Review] The Great Man

A Great Man is divided up into five chapters, the first four of which trace the latter half of the first chapter’s “Hamilton and Markov” duo, while the final, f...

[ND/NF Review] Fort Buchanan

To the right crowd, there are a lot of familiar faces in Benjamin Crotty’s Fort Buchanan, a look into the life of a number of mostly-sexually frustrated army sp...