The To Do List
Long anticipated and then maligned by critics and audiences when it was released, Maggie Carey’s lone feature film The To Do List (2013) was controversial only for its frank depiction… Read more »
Long anticipated and then maligned by critics and audiences when it was released, Maggie Carey’s lone feature film The To Do List (2013) was controversial only for its frank depiction… Read more »
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 »
Having lived in and around Philadelphia my entire life I felt a certain affinity for the general milieu of Night Catches Us (2010). Personally, one of the things that I… Read more »
Despite generally unfavorable reviews when it was first released, Burlesque (2010) has gone on to garner a kind of cult following. People enjoy the high camp of the film as… Read more »
Screenwriter Emma Thompson filters all the elegance and melodrama that is Merchant Ivory Productions’ stock and trade through the emotional evocations of environment which defined Andrea Arnolds’ Wuthering Heights (2011)… Read more »
With it’s ragtag tail of two Canadian thieves going straight (Paul Giamatti and Paul Rudd) and selling Christmas Trees in Brooklyn, All Is Bright (2013) is a throw back to… Read more »
Cosmos (2015) was the last film that Andrzej Żuławski ever made. It’s clear from the start that Żuławski intends to bid adieu to the cinema. Cosmos is full of self-referential… Read more »
Die Rache der Wanderhure (2012) is the sequel to Die Wanderhure (2010), a highly successful German television film based on the novel by Iny Lorentz. Die Rache der Wanderhure picks… Read more »
The Russian film I Am Dragon (2015) was clearly envisioned as a way of exploiting the success of the Twilight movies. However, I Am Dragon is based on a young… Read more »
Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (2010) follows the same rape/revenge formula as Yasuomi Umetsu’s Kite (1998) and Mezzo Forte (2001). Mardock Scramble: The First Compression is set in a super… Read more »