There’s not a single frame of Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s 22 Jump Street that isn’t acutely aware of its own status as a lazy, cash-grabbing sequel, but after ...
I can still remember those childhood movie moments that forever solidified my love of the cinema. They were found, unsurprisingly, in pictures we would describe...
In crafting a series of gripping, mature dramas, the releases from Australia's Blue-Tongue Films have certainly left a stamp on independent cinema in recent yea...
In Five Star, a film about a teenage boy named John (John Diaz) whose gangster father was killed by a “stray bullet,” John “Primo” Grant, a member of the Bloods...
One of the first real stunners of the year has arrived with Kat Candler's heart-wrenching drama Hellion. Much like last year's Short Term 12, this is a feature-...
What if you could go all Inception on The Bad Seed, or mind-meld with Damien from The Omen? I suspect it was a theoretical mash-up along these lines that served...
My teenage years may be decades removed from me at this point, but that didn’t stop me from reconnecting with my brooding, uncertain inner teen when reading Joh...
The newest film by Marco Bellocchio, one of Italy’s most revered directors, Dormant Beauty, initially seems like a risky proposition, being that it intends to m...
Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise’s latest summer action vehicle, fits nicely into the group of recent blockbusters concerned with altering a distant past. Like X-Me...
At a recent panel at the Montclair Film Festival, Michael Moore and several filmmakers working within the mode of documentary film discussed the tension between...
