Film
Don’t you just love the holiday season? It’s the time for the release of big budget flops and Oscar wannabes.
Read MoreRuminations on age and memory are inevitably sunk deep into the flesh and the glue of personal relationships.
Read More“Fictional movies seem more and more made from recipes. Documentaries seem a much more open, adventurous field.”
Read MoreDirector Vicki Vasilopoulos has masterfully crafted a documentary about tailors, clothing, and the painstaking search for excellence.
Read MoreThe protagonist’s confrontation with his past barbarity is far and away the most compelling part of Out of My Hand.
Read MoreChi-Raq is a work of agitprop—preachy, strident, sentimental, even sacramental.
Read MoreYet another cinematic variation on Mary Shelley’s novel—and this one too often opts for slick jolts of adrenaline over credibility.
Read MoreCreed easily taps into the sensibility and adrenaline of the original Rocky.
Read MoreTrumbo is content to be a potted history lesson rather than a thought-provoking work of art.
Read MoreLaurie Anderson’s abstract drawings, 8mm documentary, found footage, and scratched-on celluloid are combined in a frequently mesmerizing way.
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