Film
One might call “Mama,” one of the classiest horror films in years, a case of shock and awww …
Read MoreBroken City covers familiar territory, but this time it’s Marky-Mark to the rescue and he brings a gruff and troubled groundedness to the role of a man on a mission to find out The Truth in a corrupt world.
Read MoreFuse film critic Tim Jackson picks the best of the past year in movies, a round-up that includes some grievously overlooked documentaries, independent, and foreign films.
Read More“The Sopranos” creator is the latest filmmaker to tackle the 1960s. He provides an antidote to the rose-tinted lenses of nostalgia, a grounded portrayal that evokes the truth of the period rather than the mythology.
Read MoreIs it sexist to feel the need to point out that the two best action/war movies in recent times have been made by a woman director?
Read MoreThere is so much of a certain kind of violence here — the kind you’ve seen in Tarantino movies before — that it in a sense takes the violence out of violence.
Read More‘Tis the pre-Oscar season, but you might pause for some uncommon documentaries on the arts, sports, or farming. And take in one great revival.
Read More“The Friends of Eddie Coyle” was simply too good a movie, perfect, in its way, and the director of “Killing Them Softly” wants to avoid comparison.
Read MoreJack Kerouac once said that “On the Road” “was really a story about 2 Catholic buddies roaming the country in search of God,” but the spiritual element of his journey is completely lacking in the film.
Read MoreIn his book “Ferocious Reality,” Eric Ames offers an insightful, well organized, and readable study of Werner Herzog’s documentary work that explores the director’s earliest films as well as his most recent ones.
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