In Tesoros adventures create the basis for community — A Miami...
Tesoros, the wonderful new film by Director María Novaro, of Danzón fame, already stands as one of the best films this writer has seen this...
An older sister is unstoppable in Fanny’s Journey – a film...
The beautiful bucolic landscape of France and Italy is the place where Director Lola Dillon takes us to explore another angle of World War II....
'Young & Beautiful' explores women's sexuality with a nuanced touch
Of all the filmmakers across the globe, the French always seem to deliver the deepest ruminations on human relationships through intimate corporeal exchanges. One...
Film Review: 'After Lucia' holds unflinching lens to bullying
A bold and important film debuted in Miami during the Miami International Film Festival in March that only recently found a distributor. The Miami...
‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’: the last of the great...
Though it was David Bowie's first starring role in a feature film, Nicolas Roeg's 1976 movie the Man Who Fell to Earth is far...
Creepy stumbles on concern for plot over authentically creepy moments —...
Though a bit bogged down by the superficiality of constraints of the police procedural, Creepy (Kuripi: Itsuwari no rinjin), the new movie by Japanese...
American Psycho and the undying vitality of yuppie scum — a...
Bret Easton Ellis’ 1991 book American Psycho offered a rather harrowing look back at the seeming end of yuppie relevance in the late 1980s...
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...
As Pink Floyd reissue mania continues, allow me a few words...
Pink Floyd has seen quite a resurgence in interest these past couple of years. Since the blog began, I have referenced them often. There...