Although I think it is valid to view a film through the prism of political conditions, I shall tread lightly here. To ignore this, largely ignores “Film His...
I’m not sure there’s a way to discuss Random, an adaptation of a one-women show, without discussing the random event at the core of the film. A film like th...
Interested in the end results of globalization, David Redmond and Ashley Sabin previously chronicled the end product of Mardi Gras party beads in Mardi Gras: ...
Alois Nebel, the first feature film of director Tomáš Luňák, is a moody black-and-white animated film that diverts from the conventional rules of film form ...
It would be ignorant to deny certain preconceived notions going into a Joel Schumacher home invasion movie starring Nicolas Cage. I was dumbfounded when it ...
Rod Lurie's Straw Dogs is a tough film to watch. Not in terms of onscreen violence, but in evaluating the film as a whole. Sam Peckinpah's original film is ...
Aside from being creepily old, if the Brontë sisters were still alive today, they would be delighted. After their work has been adapted a dozen times over, ...
Three years after their first collaboration—and the director’s debut film—Steve McQueen and star Michael Fassbender return with the viscerally intense Shame...
The good news about Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star is that it’s not half bad! It’s not half good either, and perhaps I’m feeling a sense of good willing to...
Here’s a funny tale. In 1954, there was a struggling British painter called John Bratby who had monumentally failed to make a name for himself in the art co...