The best horror stories often obscure their real subject with the nightmare elements that roam their surface, hiding the focus beneath a veneer of the frighteni...
Set in pre-Colonial times in New Zealand, Toa Fraser’s The Dead Lands follows tribal conflict between two factions that is both illuminating and frustratingly c...
Before Gareth Edwards brought Godzilla back to life, he made his directorial debut with the 2010 indie hit Monsters. The revisionist monster movie – for which E...
“Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for awhile.” A genetic researcher utters these words halfway through Dan Bush’s moody indie sci-fi The Recons...
While several films open every year chronicle the multiple facets of the European Jewish experience of World War II, there's only a select few about the Armenia...
It’s easy to feel like a bully when approaching a movie based off a Nicholas Sparks book. The bestselling author has long since identified his particular saccha...
Jason Schwartzman has again nailed the slacker anti-hero in writer/director Bob Byington's 7 Chinese Brothers. The film revolves around 30-ish Larry (Schwartzma...
On the surface, a black and white near-future film about advertising executives struggling to sell eyeglasses that augment reality in order to help fund their w...
On group vacations, minor inconveniences are common: a car rental company doesn't have the reservation, the weather isn't cooperating, a bed isn’t comfortable. ...
After watching the trailer and reading the synopsis, it's hard not to see The Last Time You Had Fun in a sort of "been there, done that" light. We've seen it be...
