9 years ago
Features (10 posts found)
For Your Reconsideration: ‘The Dirties’
Oftentimes a critic's impassioned praise for a smaller, independent film is not enough to get people into the seats, and therefore the movie's impact is mostly missed. This happens to be the instance for the little-seen but highly powerful Canadian film, The D...
Read more →
Top 10 Unsung Gems Of 2013
10. Kiss Of The Damned
Unlike any genre picture one saw during 2013, this nostalgic take on the films of directors like Jean Rollin and Jess Franco is easily this year’s most underrated “horror” film. A breath of fresh, lusty air, this erotic vampire tale f...
Read more →
The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: ‘Porco Rosso’
There's a scene in Porco Rosso where our porcine hero, a sky bounty hunter during the time between the two World Wars, is looking to rebuild his plane with a new engine. The mechanic shows him their latest model, which is adorned with the name "GHIBLI" in big,...
Read more →
For Your Reconsideration: ‘Stoker’
Expectations were high for Stoker, the English-language debut of famed Korean director Chan-Wook Park. Upon its release in the cinematic doldrums of March, however, critics and audiences were largely unimpressed. Many rightly praised the technical prowess of P...
Read more →
Looking Back: ‘Perfume: The Story of a Murderer’
Looking back at my history with Perfume: The Story of a Murderer started about as well as it did for everyone in the United States, with a “huh”? I can remember seeing the little screen number placard at the theater and being intrigued by the title, but like m...
Read more →
For Your Reconsideration: ‘The Great Gatsby’
There have been many “In Defense Of” pieces about The Great Gatsby over the last year. Baz Luhrmann’s extravagant adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel was initially condemned for the simple sin of being too much: too much hip-hop music and Lana del Rey...
Read more →
For Your Reconsideration: ‘The Lone Ranger’
Maligned by critics and the public alike, Jake Mulligan contends 'The Lone Ranger' is worth another look.
Read more →
For Your Reconsideration: ‘Wrong’
Quentin Dupieux's surreal anti-comedy deserves more attention.
Read more →
Looking Back: ‘Adventureland’
High school graduate James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) is going to Europe in the summer and Columbia University after that. However, his parents—who are in dire straits financially—advise him to take up a summer job. James ends up a lowly games operator at a sha...
Read more →
For Your Reconsideration: ‘Beyond the Hills’
There have been many pictures that really stuck with me over the course of this fine year of film, and yet there's one that has lingered through my memory more than most, and I happened to see it in the beginning of March: Cristian Mungiu's quietly harrowing B...
Read more →
