Jason says: “For all the elements in CHICO & RITA that seem like they should make it more exciting (animation! jazz! passion! globetrotting! jealousy! revolution!), it turns out to be a strangely inert movie. It’s fairly unique – non-fantastical period
Bruce says: “After their huge success with PERSEPOLIS, filmmakers Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud were surprised to find that money for their second feature was so difficult to raise. It’s not that investors were down on the filmmaking duo, rather
Thom says: “I don’t have much experience with avant-garde Lynch (daughter of illustrious David) other than her 2008 good drama/mystery SURVEILLANCE, but who can forget the Kim Basinger/BOXING HELENA stink? So, basically I wanted to see this disturbing effort due
Jason says: “THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE states the reason for its existence plainly toward the end: To in some small way close the gap between how loudly its subjects’ guilt was proclaimed twenty-odd years ago and the attention paid to
Thom says: “This historical drama is about Greek hero Ioannas Varvakis who rose from being a Greek pirate to an international Russian caviar baron who has the ear of Catherine the Great. Later in life he returns to Greece to
Bruce says: “THE CAT VANISHES was the film I was most looking forward to at the 2012 Miami International Film Festival. It should probably surprise no one that it was my least favorite – that’s how things work sometimes. Too
Jason says: “So you’ve created a dystopic future based on existing brutalist architecture and creative cruelty. Now what? That’s a question that one can easily spend a lot of time asking during CARRE BLANC before it ultimately offers an answer.
Chris says: “You may argue that the world wasn’t waiting for a Carol Channing documentary, to which I respond, ‘Yes, but can anyone name another performer remotely like her?’ That instantly recognizable voice alone could inspire its own Broadway musical.
Thom says: “I went to see this film at a theatre only 4 blocks from where I live. My brother is a huge Roman Polanski fan and I do admire his work greatly so off we went. Then a dear
Thom says: “CALL GIRL is set in the late 1970s – The film takes us on an excursion from the lowest of Swedish society (young teenage girls who are emotionally fucked-up, to the point where they refuse to respond to
Thom says: “Director Vallée made a splash a few years back with C.R.A.Z.Y. & I quite liked his THE YOUNG VICTORIA (2009) (another entry that was denied me at TIFF 2009) so I went into the film with my eyes
Thom says: “Being a huge Josh Whedon fan (I’ve loved ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, ‘Dollhouse’, ‘Firefly’, ‘Angel’, SERENITY, & hopefully THE AVENGERS I naturally had to see this with his participation in this horror film. First rate production and clever
Matt says: “Everyone involved with the production of BUTTER no doubt wanted to make a funny and moving film about butter carving, politics, and obsessive competition. Unfortunately, all that hard work has churned out a product as dull, tasteless, and
Jason says: “It’s sad to say but true – Detroit has been known for its fires for a long time, and the recent economic tumult which has hit the Motor City especially hard has not slowed that activity down in
Thom says: “Here’s another film I had high expectations for that ended up being disappointing. I’m all for the purpose of the film as I loathe bullies. I’ve been rather lucky as I never was much bothered by bullies until
Jason says: “BULLHEAD stands as evidence that if you make the effort, you can find an epic tale in the most unlikely of places. Here, writer/director Michael R. Roskam takes us to a cattle farm in Limburg, Belgium, where seemingly
Jason says: “A friend of mine recently lamented on Twitter about the demise of the mystery movie in Hollywood, and the best thing I could point him to was a Chinese movie that will likely be more considered a martial
Bruce says: “Norman Foster is one of the greatest living architects. His Reichstag in Berlin, the British Museum, the London gherkin, the Bilbao subway, the Hearst building in New York and the HSBC headquarters in Hong Kong are all worldwide
Diane says: “How nice that I didn’t need to know anything about chess to enjoy this film. As a matter of fact, I didn’t even learn anything about chess from it. “Another ‘let’s root for the school kids’ doc, BROOKLYN
Bruce says: “When we first see Roman Kolger he is being taken to task because he has botched his first day on the job as a metal worker. Apparently a pattern has formed; this is not his first failure. Back
