Reviews

[Review] The Canyons

Paul Schrader’s Los Angeles has changed: the fast cars, smooth clothes, and electronically edged pop music of American Gigolo may survive, but are reworked and ...

[Fantasia Review] Big Bad Wolves

In supposing that there’s entertainment to be found watching torture onscreen, a horror/thriller subgenre was created that emphasized it to “pornographic” heigh...

[Fantasia Review] Big Ass Spider!

The feat of articulating what it is exactly that actually separates Big Ass Spider! from recent SyFy channel monster mockbusters like Atlantic Rim or the tired ...

[Review] The To Do List

Above all, the To Do List announces the arrival of Aubrey Plaza, movie star, with a role that takes full advantage of the awkward persona she's now best-known f...

[Review] The Time Being

The life of an artist is often pigeonholed into some lofty, depression-laden existence built upon selfish ambitions and creative genius leaving no room for anyt...

[Fantasia Review] The Dirties

If the found-footage concept relies on the belief that hand-held images will instantly signal reality, then it’s refreshing that The Dirties has the intelligenc...

[Fantasia Review] Lesson of the Evil

Is it possible for images to swallow each other whole? Meaning a process in which each progressive striking composition not just tops the other, but rather summ...

[Review] The Wolverine

Fox seems to be at a crossroads with its X-Men franchise, gearing up for something genuinely interesting with X-Men: Days of Future Past and moving beyond what ...

[Review] Blackfish

After hearing about the death of top Orca trainer Dawn Brancheau on February 24, 2010, writer/director Gabriela Cowperthwaite became intrigued by the SeaWorld p...

[Review] The World’s End

Shaun of the Dead opened with the notes of classic horror layered over studio logos from the 21st century. The initial aural-visual impressions from Hot Fuzz ar...