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...
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: ‘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...
'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...
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...
A Final Post and Message
Well, that was an interesting year to take a sabbatical. I saw a total of three movies in theaters, and it wasn’t because of...
‘Oslo, August 31st:’ a film about those small wasted opportunities of...
At first, Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31st might feel like an indulgent, meandering film filled with chatty people who cannot stop saying the obvious or...
Neon Demon examines the superficial with the subversively superficial — a...
The manner in which the majority of media audiences value, perceive and consume beauty is something so deeply ingrained in our society, it’s hard to...
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...
‘Sleeping Beauty’ offers ominous exploration of the prostitution of the female...
The last film I can remember having left me feeling as puzzled and intrigued as Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty was Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide...