Film Review: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ offers elegiac portrait of struggling folky
With their new film Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen Brothers show a profound understanding of the existential quandary of musicians. As a longtime chronicler of...
Film Review: 'Faust' presents classic tale as a nightmare ride with...
More than two years, since it took the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film, Aleksandr Sokurov’s Faust finally arrives in Miami theaters. The...
Miami Jewish Film Festival reveals 2014 line-up; Indie Ethos will host...
This morning the Miami Jewish Film Festival announced its line-up of 30 premiere films to the Miami area under a brand new director, Igor Shteyrenberg. He brings...
Read Hans Morgenstern's 'Nebraska' review in Hollywood.com, as it opens in...
Though it would have found a fine home on this blog, I was able to write a review for the new Alexander Payne film, Nebraska for...
Film Review: 'The Great Beauty' earns it's title by looking beyond...
If there’s one thing coming to all celebrities, it’s death. But what could be worse than that for the famous? Irrelevance.
Paolo Sorrentino’s new film,...
Bonding with the filmmakers of ‘The Book Thief’ over my father’s...
As the much-anticipated Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire opens wide this weekend, allow us to direct you to a much different story about a...
Film Review: ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ and the pain of...
There is a lot of noise surrounding this year’s Palme d'Or-crowned Blue is the Warmest Color. As it finally hits theaters in the U.S., it...
Film Review: 'Camille Claudel 1915' – madness and the deprived artist
French director Bruno Dumont works in an elliptical manner. Though he consistently works with powerful visuals, his work requires an audience with an open...
Film Review: 'Capital' presents soul-crushing portrait of CEO life
Let’s face it, it’s hard to sympathize with anyone inhabiting the world of the one-percenter. It’s no surprise then that legendary filmmaker Costa-Gavras gleefully...
Paradise: Hope offers poetic capper to trilogy of humanist discomfort
For his final film in the “Paradise Trilogy,” Paradise: Hope, the most stunning aspect of director Ulrich Seidl's fifth feature film is that he shows...