Reviews

[Review] Closed Circuit

Director John Crowley is a man with a good eye for picking dynamic screenplays. His feature film debut Intermission is a fun Irish romp, while his sophomore eff...

[Review] Thérèse

Only a 1927 novel can get away with its titular character yearning for a marriage built on land and stability instead of love for no other reason than to quiet ...

[Review] Una Noche

If people didn’t know about the 90-mile expanse of Caribbean waters between Havana, Cuba and Key West, Florida before Elián González in 1999, they certainly did...

[Review] The Grandmaster

As The Grandmaster wheels into its third act and the star-crossed male & female of a decades-old unrequited love begin their final exchanges, Wong Kar-wai m...

[Review] Abandoned Mine

Actor-turned-director Jeff Chamberlain’s Abandoned Mine is harmless enough, which is a major letdown considering this is a horror/thriller. The premise is simpl...

[Review] 3 Days of Normal

The romantic comedy is derivative as a point of fact—there are only so many ways an unsuspecting boy and girl can meet and thaw before falling desperately in lo...

[Review] Sparrows Dance

It only seems appropriate that I reviewed a romantic comedy yesterday where I posited its derivativeness to be a direct result of the genre simply having been e...

[Review] This is Martin Bonner

We’re all human beings. I think this is the message writer/director Chad Hartigan shares in his sophomore effort This is Martin Bonner. We make mistakes, we pay...

[Review] Jobs

Jobs is the kind of biopic that I arrive at with baggage; while I did not personally know Steve Jobs, I’ve been a follower of his life, from his famous product ...