Gerald Peary
The Zellner brothers’ excellent film is inspired by a Japanese urban legend of a young woman who came to America supposedly because of Fargo, and then committed suicide in the snows.
Read MoreDirector Abderrahmane Sissako wants the viewer to have the golden-age city in mind when, today, 2015, we see how terrible life has become there.
Read MoreWhat Oscar Wilde was peddling in America was beauty. Art for art’s sake. Gorgeous flowers. Ravishing colors.
Read MoreThese films demonstrate what’s often so great about documentaries: here’s where you find real courage and everyday heroism, and not in mythic, muscular, blockbusters.
Read MoreWhy did Patton Oswalt submit himself, for a time, to drowning in movies? I never quite understood that..
Read MoreWhat is served at Wasabi is so-o-o-o fresh.
Read MorePerhaps Top Five is Chris Rock’s penance for doing lucrative-paying voices for the insanely popular Madagascar animation franchise.
Read MoreAce film blogger Farran Smith Nehme’s first novel grows directly out of her adoration of classic American cinema.
Read MoreAre men totally useless in Zero Motivation? Well, they can come in handy when you want to use one of them as a sexual object.
Read MoreTommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman could have been an old-fashioned Hollywood Western. Thankfully, it isn’t.
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