An Ambitious Beauty Lost In Its Own Woods
DIRECTED BY DEREK CIANOFRANCE/2013
The Place Beyond the Pines is a beautiful mess of a film in three distinct acts...
Selfless, Cold, And Composed
DIRECTED BY ANDREW BROTZMAN/2012
An angstrom is a unit of length, infinitesimally small; one hundred millionth of a centimeter....
A Much Needed Trip To The Hospital
DIRECTED BY PETER NICKS/2013
In 2010, Waiting for Superman made waves as a stinging documentary that exposed stubborn pol...
The Just Credible Burt Wonderstone
DIRECTED BY DON SCARDINO/2013
Oh how years ago in days of old, when magic filled the airwaves. Penn & Teller, Siegfri...
Abbas Kiarostami Takes us to Japan for his Newest Film
DIRECTED BY ABBAS KIAROSTAMI/JAPANESE/2013 (U.S. theatrical release)
The opening shot of Like Someone...
A 110-Minute Commercial With A Killer Soundtrack
DIRECTED BY RAMONA S. DIAZ/2013
From what I’ve pieced together about the 80s, it was as understated as a py...
Tepid, Hackneyed And Other College Words
DIRECTED BY JON LUCAS & SCOTT MOORE/2013
21 & Over has been informally marketed as “The Hangover for colleg...
Dwayne Johnson Rises Above The Rock
DIRECTED BY RIC ROMAN WAUGH/2013
If you’ve heard anything about Snitch, it’s probably that Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock,...
Calling An Audible In The Third Act
DIRECTED BY DAVID O. RUSSELL/2012
Full disclosure: I did not see the entirety of Silver Linings Playbook; two minutes ha...
The Remake of the 1980 Classic
DIRECTED BY FRANCK KHALFOUN/2013 (U.S. theatrical release)
Maniac was one of my favorite slasher movies of the 80s. But in ac...
