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[Review] Thor: The Dark World

There was something off with 2011's Thor: while many believe Iron Man 2 was nothing but an evolutionary bridge for its hero to move closer towards what The Aven...

[Review] The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology is a rather challenging film to review; like his other, rather useful The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (and his collaborations with...

[Review] Last Vegas

The great Gene Siskel famously had a test a film with this stellar of a cast would have to pass: is it more interesting than watching a documentary of these act...

[Review] The Broken Circle Breakdown

The Broken Circle Breakdown may yield only a single moment of genuine subversion, but one can at least appreciate it having arrived with the very first image: a...

[Review] Ender’s Game

The blockbuster season has now officially passed, and gone with it are the nauseating evocations of the September 11th terrorist attacks that were present in so...

[Review] Capital

Capital, accomplished filmmaker Costa-Gavras' new film set within the world of corporate finance, is a fast-paced, cynical piece of entertainment that serves as...

[Review] Big Sur

I’ve never read a novel by Jack Kerouac—the only Beat Generation tome I have leafed through is William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch—but I imagine the experience is...