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[Review] Out of the Furnace

After directing Jeff Bridges to a Best Actor Oscar with 2009’s safe, humble, crowd-pleasing Crazy Heart, it’s admirable for writer-director Scott Cooper to turn...

[Review] Night Train to Lisbon

Sometimes a well-written story is all you truly need to make a successful film and I believe author Pascal Mercier's novel Night Train to Lisbon provides one. A...

[Review] Diamond on Vinyl

In much the same way J.R. Hughto’s characters interact with one another in made-up dialogue with fictitious personas used to record “rehearsal” conversations or...

[Review] Swerve

After a long journey dating back to 2010, director Craig Lahiff finally has his Australian crime thriller Swerve arriving in American theaters. It took a year t...

[Review] Artifact

To disclose my feelings on Thirty Seconds to Mars off the bat, I'm a huge fan of the band. When "Capricorn (A Brand New Name)" hit the radio waves, I was sold—n...

[Review] Black Nativity

I admit I’m unfamiliar with Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity, a libretto that serves as the source material for Fox Searchlight's latest release, but I have a fe...

[Review] The Punk Singer

When Kathleen Hanna is shown sitting at her home discussing her exit from fronting Le Tigre, she says, “I felt I had said everything I wanted to say.” It’s the ...

[Review] Oldboy

Coming hot off the heels of the original's 10-year anniversary, Spike Lee's remake of Chan-wook Park's Oldboy may succeed in swaying domestic audiences unfamili...