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...
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...
Fassbinder’s prophetic 1973 sci-fi work ‘World on a Wire’ finally sees...
A three-hour-plus sci-fi experience, World on a Wire (Welt am Draht), seemed to have existed as mere legend in the filmography of Rainer Werner...
'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...
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...
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...
eXistenZ, the stronger testament to ‘The Matrix’ of escapism from 1999
Before its 20-year anniversary passes, I’d like to write something about one of 1999’s more overlooked movies. This film I want to dwell on...
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...