Paris Can Wait captures frustrating mysteries of love — a film...
Though straightforward and not without some technical impurities, not to mention a few trite romantic comedy tropes, Paris Can Wait has a creeping appeal...
Güeros: Coming of age in an ode to Mexico City —...
Balancing humor and poetically stunning black and white cinematography, Güeros tells the story of two brothers: Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and young Tomás (Sebastián Aguirre). After...
My personal favorite film: ‘Rumble Fish;’ read my ode to Coppola’s...
Whenever I am asked what my favorite movie is, I declare, from the gut, without hesitation: 1983's Rumble Fish, by Francis Ford Coppola, starring...
Film Review: Andrea Arnold’s raw and impressionistic take on ‘Wuthering Heights’
I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through...
A consideration of the 1984 BBC adaptation of Z For Zachariah;...
Last week, I reviewed Z For Zachariah, the latest film by director Craig Zobel (read it here), which is based on Robert C. O’Brien’s posthumous 1974 novel of the...
Lisa Leone, Renaissance lady of Eyes Wide Shut talks working with...
Miami has a living connection to Stanley Kubrick’s final film Eyes Wide Shut. Lisa Leone is the Vice President of Artistic Programs at The...
The Lobster offers brilliant satire of the corrupted expectations of human...
Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos burst onto the International film scene in 2009 with the disturbing, Oscar-nominated family drama Dogtooth. There was no way it...
Jake Gyllenhaal shines above superficial story in ‘Nightcrawler’ – a film...
A great teaser trailer released a few months back hinted that Nightcrawler would present a character study of a manic man determined to get a job...
'Wolf of Wall Street' is one nasty, vulgar film about nasty,...
Despite his status as a big time Hollywood director, Martin Scorsese deserves consideration as an auteur who can still assert his independent ethos to...
Lessons in decadence for 2 distinct Queens of Versailles
Two movies about two different queens of two different Versailles hit local indie art houses today. Though one focuses on the most famous queen...