Beginners is a heartbreaking, soulful exploration of both hetero and homosexual repression. It’s a deeply personal and haunting narrative recalling other ho...
Note: although South by Southwest’s programming department considered last night’s screening of the upcoming comedy Bridesmaids a work in progress, in his intro...
Blacktino is nothing short of revolutionary. As a crowdpleaser, it’s so frank about diversity, the notion is reduced to its smallest unit: the individual. Aaron...
As the title may imply, Girls Walks into a Bar is largely a one-joke film, and not a very funny joke as it follows a group of strangers in several strange bar...
Inside America is a study of institutionalized behavior turning its lens to Brownsville, South Texas and to conditions that may produce either a homegrown terro...
In three or four months when your walking past your local RedBox and you see a DVD titled Take Me Home Tonight, please don’t take its advice. The sin of the fil...
Leave it to the Brothers Farrelly to provide an answer to the immature comedy Just Go With It. Hall Pass deals with similar themes - including aging "grac...
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never is a good-natured examination of “Bieber Fever” – to it’s credit it’s not simply a 3D concert film, but provides Bieber novices...
Ever apparent in this year's Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts selections is that the dominant force in filmmaking (Hollywood) and various governmental ent...
The Eagle is a vivid and at times lucid action adventure, a step above Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, owing more to Terrence Malick with a nod to Italian neorealism...
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.
