Fresh Meat takes several “-isms" and throws them into a hilarious blender. The film works as an uncompromisingly dark horror comedy with director Danny Mulheron...
1st Night is a classy screwball comedy, so gorgeously lensed and very British, we almost forget just how silly the material might be had the same premise been a...
I don’t know any birders in real life, but on the whole, they sure do seem like nice folks. After the delightful, yet little seen, The Big Year and the even mor...
Kanpur, India is known as the Manchester of the East; an industrial town in the North, it's grappling with the realities of globalization, embodying the fundame...
We never put a name to the face, as names are not required. It is brave of the residents of Oceana, West Virginia, the epicenter of OxyContin addiction to engag...
Almost Christmas, the long-awaited second feature film Phil Morrison (Junebug) is an unexpected buddy comedy. Just released from a four years in Quebec jail, an...
Inspired by a true story, director and co-writer Mo Ogrodnik finds perhaps the least interesting way to tell what might have been a compelling narrative. I’m in...
Since you have arrived at this film review, you do not like to enter the theater cold. Here’s my challenge; Some Velvet Morning is a demanding film to talk abou...
The year is 1985. The extremist African-American liberation group MOVE has headquartered itself in a West Philadelphia house in a densely populated neighborhood...
John Fink is a New York City area-based critic, filmmaker, educator and curator. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Buffalo International Film Festival.
