Year: 2010

Dueling Snow Whites

With the huge financial success that was Tim Burton's twisted take on Alice in Wonderland, studios have been clamoring to revamp classic tales with similar ...

[NYFF Review] Of Gods and Men

In 1996, a group of French Cistercian monks residing in Tibhirine, Algeria were kidnapped and then later killed, supposedly when negotiations broke down between the French government and the terrorist group. Based on factual events Xavier Beauvois' Of Gods & Men (Des hommes et des dieux) examines the decision by the monks to remain in the war-torn country, even after being threatened by Islamic extremists....