Something's happening in Kuala Lampur—something that cannot be explained. Deaths in the vein of Bryan Fuller's gorgeously ornate displays of murder from "Hannib...
Small-time private detective Tommy Akhtar (Riz Ahmed) has all the swagger of a hard-boiled snoop: leather jacket on his shoulders and cigarette in his mouth, le...
The romantic comedy formula is one that can't help but become redundant in premise. How many different scenarios are there for two people to converge? Even so, ...
Remakes repackaging foreign films for American audiences are justifiable if done correctly. I’d hope our movie-going public would willingly read subtitles and e...
Life for a woman like Elmas (Ecem Uzun) in Turkey is a living nightmare. An eighteen-year old all but sold to a willing husband (Serkan Keskin's Koca) much olde...
With a title like Catfight and the only available image showing a bloodied and battered chokehold between Anne Heche and Sandra Oh, our expectations are forced ...
If my limited experience with Philip Roth adaptations is any indication, his novels deal in emotion. There are existential crises concerning identity involved, ...
If forty's the new thirty, twenty-three can easily become the new thirteen. I think first-time director Rasmus Heisterberg would agree as the man behind screenp...
Adolescent hijinks turn tragic on multiple fronts in Fernando Guzzoni's Jesús despite my not being sure there was going to be a solid point to the film until mi...
When your author and illustrator both win Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for the same book, you can bet Hollywood will come knocking. Even though the production ...
