Is there a way for a village to get wiped out—buildings and people—and still ensure the dogs are safe? No. So why do Michael Mann and Morgan Davis Foehl write B...
Like filmmakers before him who have crafted works expressing the fears and anxieties surrounding Y2K (Wong Kar-wai, David Fincher, and Gary Burns spring to mind...
The saying “it is what it is” comes to mind when describing Taken 3. While that's certainly a cop-out in film criticism, unlike the thrillers that promise thril...
Don’t let the generic title fool you. Paul Harrill’s Something, Anything gently tells its story through detailed specificity. One might not be able to place the...
There is much talk about whether Li’l Quinquin, the latest from Bruno Dumont (Camille Claudel 1915, L'Humanité, Flandres) is a TV series or a film. It was commi...
With a kind of quiet reserve, Big Eyes is a rare effort from the Tim Burton that plays it straight. The director wisely keeps the Burton-esque touches to a mini...
There are certain figures in history that are so endlessly studied, referenced, and revered that their name alone conjures the narrative of an entire movement o...
Opening with cold, narrative efficiency, Rupert Wyatt’s remake of Karel Reisz’s 1974 film is a stylish mess. Mark Wahlberg stars as Jim Bennett, a down-on-his-l...
Who would've thought a movie complete with Katy Perry and fecal jokes could cause so much brouhaha? The Interview did just that by royally pissing off North Kor...
Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, the true-life story of Olympic winner Louis Zamperini’s World War II travails, is a film that specializes in visions both mythic and ...
