When one sees 250+ films in a given year one tends to remember both the really good ones and the ones that insulted your intelligence or wasted your time. T...
Tom Petty was right – the waiting is, indeed, the hardest part. Paranormal Activity 3 involves much waiting, some neat effects, more waiting, and then an en...
An angsty teenager looking to find himself falls in love and deals with tremendous personal pain. Sound familiar? It should; that could be the basic log lin...
A number of noteworthy films on this year's festival circuit have dealt with fear of impending doom. But while Lars Von Trier's Melancholia and Jeff Nichols' Ta...
While many films have explored themes of post-9/11 paranoia and its resulting xenophobia, none have dared do so with the unrepentant joie de vivre of Le Havre...
While scouting locations for her next shoot, photographer turned music-videomaker Alma Har'el was inspired to create a film, documenting the curious community s...
Arthur Schnitzler’s 1900 play La Ronde has had quite a legacy. The author initially wrote it as a private play to share amongst his bohemian friends, but it...
Roger Corman is an interesting character. He's a provocateur, a goof, a "schlockmaster," a great assembler of talent, an independent film legend, an interna...
You may have noticed a veil of intrigue and mystery has persistently clung to Pedro Almodóvar's latest effort The Skin I Live In. The drama's promotional poster...
John Carpenter's 1982 classic The Thing is a movie that hinges on a sense of unknown dread and suspense. Whenever an intellectual property maintains a built...