Film Review: 'Stranger By the Lake' uses mysterious questions to drive...
Stranger by the Lake, the first U.S.-distributed film by French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie stands out as a strikingly confident work. His little-known filmography dates...
Film Review: 'Gloria,' living life without a compass
Black humor that is at once in touch with mortality, yet life-affirming is not an easy feat. In Gloria, Chilean director Sebastián Lelio achieves...
Film Review: ‘Lenny Cooke’ offers compelling lessons of a talented loser
In recent years, several sports documentary filmmakers have made some celebrated documentaries about winners. In 2008, you had two major ones: Harvard Beats Yale...
'Act of Killing' directors respond to Oscar nomination
This morning, the nominees for the Oscar® awards were announced. Among those nominated for best documentary* was the already plenty-award-winning film the Act of Killing, which also won best documentary from us...
Film Review: ‘Her’ explores loner experience by deconstructing intimacy through hyper-real...
With Her, director Spike Jonze offers one of the strongest and most prescient films of his career. Using a delicate sense of humor and compassion, his fourth...
Film Review: 'August: Osage County' on Hollywood.com
Black Comedy is a difficult brand of humor to pull off. The line between what’s funny and sad or horrific becomes so slender many...
A chat with actress Margot Robbie on Scorsese, DiCaprio and ‘the...
Everyone who follows this blog (and we know we don't thank you enough for it, as we close in on 3,000 subscribers for the...
An Essential Guide to Mumblecore
As film genres go, mumblecore is as independent and obscure a label as it gets. Consider this post a guide to that film movement,...
Some of the greatest films encountered in 2013
This year proved quite fruitful for worthwhile cinema experiences for this writer. So much so, I want to vary up my year-end list. There...
'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...