Although only coined in the last decade, the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" archetype can be traced back to screwball comedies and has been spoofed as early as Annie ...
Steph Green’s Run & Jump is a film that will grow on you, slowly and subtly absorbing you into its world. With an observant structure, we are the third whee...
Oh, the internet. I wonder if you really have lead to a decrease in my productivity: on one hand, it’s full of almost everything, including cute cats. Then ther...
The Tribeca Film Festival continues its legacy of programming work about experimental film with Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton, an insightful docume...
Lenny Cooke is to basketball as Anvil is to rock-n-roll, and like Anvil, he now has a documentary. A departure for filmmakers Ben and Joshua Safdie who’s previo...
Frankenstein’s Army is a B-movie in every sense of the word. Not without laughs, moments of blood, gore and primitive surgery as its name suggests, the film unf...
It was no doubt a daunting task for French director Yves Montmayeur to tackle one of cinema’s most enigmatic and controversial filmmakers, Austrian born Michael...
Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion opens with images of Jack Harper's (Tom Cruise) memory: black-and-white glimpses of a meeting atop the Empire State Building, the han...
A few years ago a professor of mine once cautioned that when times get tough, young people are more likely to sell their soul for cash, allowing themselves to b...
What happens inside one’s home is sacred. Your skeletons are exposed, carefully manufactured façades rest for the night, and pent up frustrations boil to the su...
