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[Review] The Wait

Actor-turned-filmmaker M. Blash has shown a penchant for subdued, character-driven indies – in the past, he took small roles in Kelly Reichart’s road movie Wend...

[Review] Redlands

As an art-house piece, AMOK Books founder/owner John Brian King's debut feature film Redlands is pretty much what you'd expect from someone who's curated an exh...

[Review] Dhoom 3

Written and directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya, Dhoom 3 is a stand-alone film that has been breaking global box-office records. If you, like me, missed the first...

[Review] 47 Ronin

There have been numerous iterations of Japan's unofficial, national legend about forty-seven ronin who avenged their master's death at the start of the eighteen...

[Review] Lone Survivor

In its best moments, Lone Survivor, directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg, is a lean, mean thrill machine reminiscent of something like Black Hawk D...

[Review] Grudge Match

Someone had the brilliant idea of putting Rocky Balboa and Jake LaMotta in the ring together at the ripe old comedic age of seventy and their Hollywood surrogat...

[Review] August: Osage County

Performances aside, August: Osage County mostly directs itself. In adapting his own Pulitzer-Prize winning play, Tracy Letts has made a compressed-but-extremely...