An early synopsis for McG's latest told us that This Means War follows "two top CIA operatives waging an epic battle against one another over a new love." With ...
There's a weird kind of war at the heart of The Vow that the film never manages to resolve. At the core of this story is an existential and moral dilema that co...
In which we learn, if you're a C.I.A. operative who's captured a world-class baddie, whatever you do, do not got to a safe house. In Safe House, directed by Dan...
The opening event of Béla Tarr's The Turin Horse may, perhaps, set up false expectations for many a viewer -- set over a pitch-black screen, a coarse-graine...
After making a boatload of money—that's the equivalent to one hundred millions dollars if you didn't know—Journey to the Center of the Earth was almost guar...
War is hell.
This is a truism that is almost universally accepted and evinced by all pieces of serious-minded cinema and art in general. The other side of th...
The world needs more horror films like The Woman in Black. Not only is the film's love for old-fashioned storytelling amiss in countless modern genre ventures, ...
Despite a varied critical reaction, "found-footage" has proven successful as a subset of cinema, with its allowance of cheap production design and minimal effec...
Overly long and overly repetitive, Big Miracle, directed by Ken Kwapis, is nothing if not straight from the heart. Or at least aiming to be. After all, everybod...
After his music being featured in Antonio Campos' Simon Killer, and appearing with Tim Heidecker in The Comedy, LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy is back in...
