January is a terrible month for film-goers. There is just no way around it. A few Oscar-hopefuls see expansion and we get a few film festival leftovers, but f...
One of the biggest cinephiles-turned-directors, at least publicly, is Quentin Tarantino. The eccentric writer/director has likely had a tough year, as his l...
After some NYC set indies, bittersweet docs and dramas, I continued soldiering through my Netflix Queue and trekking to theaters for matinee shows, taking i...
In the latest episode of The Film Stage podcast, co-host Dan Mecca and I (Jordan Raup) bring you a special episode looking back on 2010. We tell you what we...
Around last year at this time, when we were all compiling our Top Films of the Decade, I thought back on what the best decade for cinema. In my personal opi...
True Grit showed extraordinary staying power, only falling 1% in its second weekend, bringing in $24.5 million. Now the Coen Brothers' highest-grossing film...
The worst film I saw at Toronto International Film Festival this year, and a contender for all of 2010, was John Carpenter's The Ward. I posted a capsule re...
Andrew Dominik took two of my favorite movie stars (Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck) and turned out one of the most amazing movies I've ever seen (The Assassina...
For New Years all I wanted is a 4-second low-quality video of Chris Evans in motion as Captain America. Well, it looks like 2011 will be my lucky year, as B...
If anyone can turn a franchise largely unknown outside of Europe into a Stateside crowd-pleaser, it would Steven Spielberg. /Film brings us some beautiful high-...