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[Tribeca Review] A Brony Tale

Like many, I learn about my subcultures from The Howard Stern Show, which had sent a correspondent to cover this year’s BronyCon, an annual fan convention for f...

[Review] 13 Sins

How far would you go for the “right” amount of money? The very rich preying on the desperation of the poor is obviously not a new concept in fiction, but rec...

[Review] Proxy

I learned something while watching Zack Parker's horror (though psychological thriller is a more apt genre label) film Proxy: Richmond, Indiana is a hotbed for ...

[SXSW Review] The Great Invisible

Margaret Brown’s The Great Invisible is often a frank reminder of what George W. Bush once said: “America is addicted to oil.” Exploring the event and aftermath...

10 Films to See In March

Featuring new features from a handful of cinema's greatest auteurs, along with a few well-crafted genre movies, a documentary on one of music's finest bands and another on perhaps the best film we'll never see, it's a stellar month for film....

Posterized March 2014: ‘Noah’, ‘Nymphomaniac,’ ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel,’ ‘Enemy’ & More

Has summer started early? Big blockbusters like Divergent, Noah, 300: Rise of an Empire, and Need for Speed are releasing in March—I guess they must therefore be the studios’ lesser box office juggernauts. You know, the ones they aren’t quite sure will earn the bank they had hoped when forking over the cash for production. Tween action/romances did not fare well last year, no one knows who Noah is targeting besides Darren Aronofsky fans, Rise looks like a 300 rip-off, and Need for Speed is, well, exactly what you’d think from a racing video game property. At least some of their posters are pretty …...

[Review] The Bag Man

Once upon a time before Jason Blum's Blumhouse, there was Trimark Pictures. Launched by investors who also controlled video stores in 1988, Trimark was founded ...