'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...
Film Review: 'the Secret Life of Walter Mitty' on Hollywood.com
I don't think I realized how much I loved the new film directed by Ben Stiller, the Secret Life of Walter Mitty, until I...
Film Review: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ offers elegiac portrait of struggling folky
With their new film Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen Brothers show a profound understanding of the existential quandary of musicians. As a longtime chronicler of...
Film Review: 'Faust' presents classic tale as a nightmare ride with...
More than two years, since it took the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film, Aleksandr Sokurov’s Faust finally arrives in Miami theaters. The...
Read Hans Morgenstern's 'Nebraska' review in Hollywood.com, as it opens in...
Though it would have found a fine home on this blog, I was able to write a review for the new Alexander Payne film, Nebraska for...
Film Review: 'The Great Beauty' earns it's title by looking beyond...
If there’s one thing coming to all celebrities, it’s death. But what could be worse than that for the famous? Irrelevance.
Paolo Sorrentino’s new film,...
Documentary review: 'A Symphony of the Soil' digs for change
Life emanates from the smallest component. This is the premise of the new documentary Symphony of Soil, where even the most minuscule organisms are...
Film Review: ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ and the pain of...
There is a lot of noise surrounding this year’s Palme d'Or-crowned Blue is the Warmest Color. As it finally hits theaters in the U.S., it...
Film Review: 'Camille Claudel 1915' – madness and the deprived artist
French director Bruno Dumont works in an elliptical manner. Though he consistently works with powerful visuals, his work requires an audience with an open...
Film Review: 'Capital' presents soul-crushing portrait of CEO life
Let’s face it, it’s hard to sympathize with anyone inhabiting the world of the one-percenter. It’s no surprise then that legendary filmmaker Costa-Gavras gleefully...