What begins as duel storylines on either side of the U.S.-Mexican border come crashing together in a symphony of violence, passion, dance, and music to become a truly singular experience […]
Finnish-born writer/director Jalmari Helander (Rare Exports, Big Game) has done something very few filmmakers have or would have the guts to even try: make an entire film that is meant […]
With his second film as writer/director, Franklin Ritch (who also edited the film and co-stars) has created a science fiction morality play in The Artifice Girl that ranks up there […]
Many times when critics review an issue-oriented documentary, the writer will focus more on the issue and less on the filmmaking, and judge the film on how well the filmmaker […]
Forgive me for getting stuck on this, but this movie took four people to write; I won’t name them here because I don’t want to embarrass them. And those are […]
Profiling a familiar family dynamic, but with unexpectedly heartfelt and emotional results, director/co-writer/star Ray Romano makes his feature directing debut with Somewhere in Queens, the story of lovable loser Leo […]
It’s best to start with a confession: I’m no Blume-ite. Never was, either. During those turbulent pre-teen years when every kid is looking for answers and intel about life’s most […]
Although not based on a specific true story, Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant (likely named that so the film is not confused with Renny Harlin’s 2006 supernatural thrill The Covenant) is […]
Even devotees of the Evil Dead properties may not recall this, but in Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness film (aka Evil Dead III), it is established that there are, in […]
This may come as a surprise to some of you, but the comedy troupe known as Broken Lizard (Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beer Fest) doesn’t really care that much about […]
Director Rebecca Zlotowski (Planetarium, An Easy Girl) began writing the screenplay for Other People’s Children thinking of the void in the life of a 40-year-old woman who longs for children but has […]
If the films of Kelly Reichardt have a binding theme, it’s that her works are populated by characters in search of their place in the world, both in a geographical […]