Considering I started conjuring images of an Indian sidekick named Hadji when first made aware of news Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson were directing a T...
One of the greatest lessons I received from my film school education was a tossaway bon mot from a faculty advise, upset that I didn't have time to take a ...
If it was without the charm of its leads and the flashy, but empty style of Guy Ritchie, Sherlock Homes: A Game of Shadows would perhaps be one of the dulle...
The latest feature from internationally heralded Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, The Flowers of War, is not a tale of soldiers and strategies, but rather of the ...
There's very little reason to come out of Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol doubting Brad Bird's skill as a live-action filmmaker. To date, of course, h...
The next time Roman Polanski confronts material with roots in the theater, I won't be looking forward to it. Carnage, his thoroughly disappointing adaptatio...
Director Tomas Alfredson, most recently the wizard behind the gorgeous, spookily moving Let the Right One In, takes the concept of slow-burn thrillers to a ...
Suggesting from its opening credits the idea of a zero-sum game, My Piece of the Pie is slightly more allegorical than it should be – this type of Trojan ho...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo book is B material. It's a standard crime investigation story, the kind one reads on a long plane ride and forgets about onc...
Director David Gordon Green has one of the most unique filmmaker voices of the 21st century. Snow Angels, All the Real Girls and George Washington are beaut...
