High Life puts Eros and Thanatos against space-time
For all the assumptions about what might an art house director like Claire Denis be doing making a science fiction movie, the genre actually fits...
My prediction: gullibles will make 2012 #1 at Box Office
OK, so tonight 2012 hits theaters. I ain’t seeing it, but I’m fascinated by humanity’s arrogance that they might live to see the end of...
Interview with Spanish sci-fi revisionist Nacho Vigalondo in ‘New Times’
Thanks to the Cultist blog at "the Miami New Times" I had a chance to speak with one of Spain's most exciting young directors,...
Moonlight heightens intimacy with exquisitely tempered cinematic technique — a film...
The unanimity of praise for Moonlight has been deafening. Along with the critical praise, the film's limited early release opened incredibly strong, an amazing...
Love is flawed in almost every cinematic way possible — a...
I’m of the view that Gaspar Noé's 2001 movie Irreversible is nothing more than an exercise in shallow self-indulgence. It’s a cruel film whose real...
Film Review: ‘Holy Motors’ pays tribute to cinema while exploring its...
How appropriate that I had dreamt of seeing Holy Motors before I even saw it. I rarely ever dream of movies. Movies are dreams...
My Friend Dahmer vividly explores the anti-social life of a would-be...
Though My Friend Dahmer is about infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, its focus is not on the murders, rapes, necrophilia and cannibalism he committed...
‘Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life’ debuts in South Florida with special screening...
Tonight, one day ahead of its commercial release in my area (Miami), the University of Miami's Cosford Cinema will host a preview screening of...
Support the Girls finds uneasy humor in the mundane
The most glamorous visual associated with the new movie Support the Girls can be found in its poster art. Everything inside the film, however, is...
Hitchcock/Truffaut transmits the desire of filmmaking for all to fall in...
It can be a tricky proposition: making a film about films. Even trickier is the idea of making a film based on a book...