The title Paul Williams: Still Alive is either the meanest or the most life-affirming in recent documentary history, and after watching Stephen Kessler’s film a...
In Robert Zemeckis’ first non-CG film since Cast Away, the much-adored Hollywood director tackles the serious issue of substance abuse with the dramatic backdro...
Miguel Gomes's Tabu, one of the year's true incarnations of movie magic, is an irresistible tailspin into a world that covers everything from an old woman's gam...
Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is one of the most divisive novels ever written with equal numbers hailing her Objectivist manifesto as Bible or deriding it as blasph...
That-guy actor Martin Papazian goes for dramatic gravitas in his directorial debut Least Among Saints and finds more success than not in the process. Wanting to...
Let's face it, I haven't thoroughly enjoyed a straight Happy Madison production -- I exclude Apatow's and Binder's because they would have probably been made wi...
Saying Dodookdeul is the Korean Ocean's 11—like I had been after reading the synopsis—ended up not being as hyperbolic as I originally thought. Coming from one...
Each era has its film movement. Millennials found theirs with mumblecore, its chicly boring indie nature reflecting the confusion of a well-educated yet directi...
A tale about family, its many definitions and its discovery through the prism of an unstable time, Marianne Fredriksson's international bestseller Simon och eka...
In an ironic way, Not Fade Away is perhaps most interesting when it's explicitly referencing the small-screen roots of its writer-director, Sopranos honcho Davi...
