The Commune is just stupid adults doing stupid things– a film...
Anyone who has seen The Celebration, a Dogme film from 1998 by Thomas Vinterberg, knows that the Danish writer-director can take family dysfunction to...
'X-Men: Days of Future Past:' an Independent Ethos take on a...
With X-Men: Days of Future Past, Bryan Singer returns to directing the characters he first successfully brought to the big screen more than 10 years...
‘The Dark Knight Rises:’ an Independent Ethos take on another Hollywood...
You have to admire Christopher Nolan. Count him among those few Hollywood directors alluded to in an earlier post who can prop up a...
Come What May offers a striking reminder of the perils of...
Wars are shocking and impactful phenomena that have devastating consequences for the human experience. As Betrand Russel once said, “War does not determine who...
Sunset cinematic mansplaining that reveals woman’s early 20th century woman’s experience
With Sunset, the Oscar-winning director of Son of Saul (Son of Saul, a grim out-of-body experience at Auschwitz — a film review) returns with...
What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy depicts two distinct views...
As World War II stretches further in the past, its history remains no less striking. This writer understands the horrors of the war at...
‘The Trip to Italy’ makes no apologies for being a sequel...
Following their 2011 film The Trip, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and Michael Winterbottom reunite again for The Trip to Italy, which follows the same format as...
Film Review: ‘Upstream Color’ settles on a fence of gaping interpretation
I consider Shane Carruth's Primer among the best films of I saw in 2004. I caught it in an almost empty theater during a free...
Film Review: 'Museum Hours' poetically melds life, death and art
In the 1958 comedy by Ronald Neame, the Horse’s Mouth, the film’s main character, an artist named Gulley Jimson, portrayed as equal parts guru...
Arrival offers power in perspective via sci-fi narrative — a film...
After all of its hype since its world premiere at the 73rd Venice Film Festival, in September, Arrival is likely to leave some disappointed. But...