Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow’s follow-up to her much acclaimed film The Hurt Locker (2008) was the fictionalized retelling of the historical record of the CIA’s manhunt for Osama bin Laden Zero Dark… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
You Are Not I
Sara Driver’s career in film has been as prolific as it is unheralded in public and commercial discourse. Driver, who has written and directed a number of her own films,… Read more »
D.E.B.S.
D.E.B.S. (2004) is indisputably a film by Angela Robinson. Not only did Robinson write and direct D.E.B.S., but she also edited the film. The basic idea for D.E.B.S. is to… Read more »
Between The Lines
Joan Micklin Silver’s second theatrical feature, Between The Lines (1977), draws on her experiences as a writer for the Village Voice to create an authentic representation of a radical newspaper’s… Read more »
You’ve Got Mail
You’ve Got Mail (1998) is one of the bonafide popular classics of the “golden age” of romantic comedies. Nora Ephron’s remake of The Shop Around The Corner (1940) updates Illatszertár… Read more »
Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen
Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen (2004) was the crest of the wave of Lindsay Lohan’s popularity. For a minute there, one couldn’t go a day without seeing Lohan’s likeness… Read more »
Sedmikrásky
Sedmikrásky (1966), or Daisies as it is known in english, is one of those milestone films in every cinephile’s life. Once you see Sedmikrásky it changes you. Since the arrival… Read more »
Lady Beware
When Katya Yarno (Diane Lane) lands a job as a window dresser at a department store in downtown Pittsburgh she gets the attention of Jack Price (Michael Woods), an x-ray… Read more »
Clockwatchers
Clockwatchers (1997) opens with Iris (Toni Collette) arriving for a new temp job with a credit company. Almost immediately, Iris begins a friendship with the other temps (Parker Posey, Lisa… Read more »
Mikey & Nicky
Elaine May re-teamed with her Luv (1967) co-star Peter Falk for her definitive statement on masculine frailty Mikey & Nicky (1976). May spent a long time in pre-production on the… Read more »
