Last night at the Academy Awards, something odd happened. Brie Larson, who won an Oscar last year for Best Actress for her portrayal of a survivor of sexual assault in […]

Believe it or not, this micro-budget, semi-autobiographical comedy about the life of singer-comedian Henry Phillips is actually a sequel to his 2009 collaboration with director Gregori Viens, Punching the Clown, […]

Providing a genuinely unique, sometimes terrifying, usually hilarious vantage point of the life of a stand-up comic, Dying Laughing features dozens of interviews from top American and British comics, walking […]

This odd, dark romantic-comedy is really just an excuse to watch Gael García Bernal (Y Tu Mamá También, “Mozart in the Jungle”) act up a storm in a story that […]

The set up might seem like it’s from a family-friendly film from a major Hollywood studio that wants to counter-program against so many movies aimed at dog lovers. But Turkish-born […]

I’m genuinely shocked and more than a little troubled that a film as near perfect and genuinely original and effective as The Girl with All the Gifts is getting such […]

The surprise midnight screening at the Sundance Film Festival this year wasn’t much of a surprise by the time it began rolling, but I think it shocked more that a […]

When we first meet Sergius Alexander (Emil Jannings) we are told he is a bit-part actor with little experience. A Hollywood director however is intrigued by his head-shot and wants […]

“Eye opening” doesn’t even begin to describe my reaction to director Mehrdad Oskouei’s Starless Dreams, a deeply revealing documentary that takes a look inside an all-female, mostly juvenile prison in […]

In an effort to expand on the current wave of female-directed horror breakthroughs—such as Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation, Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Jennifer Kent’s […]

A wonderful trend in the last year of film has been the uncovering of long-forgotten (and sometimes, virtually unknown) stories about ground-breaking achievements that have quite literally changed history. While […]

In many strange ways, the raunchy comedy Fist Fight has a few important messages buried in its brutality, most of which have to do with the decline of the public […]