Following the Second World War, European auteurs probed its lingering national psychological fallout resulting in films such as Night and Fog, Hiroshima Mon Amo...
When Guillermo Del Toro produces an animated film about traveling into the afterlife and then releases it in time for Halloween, one would be right to expect so...
Contrary to early, perhaps reactionary, accounts, Rosewater is not entirely devoid of comedy. Of course those who think of Jon Stewart as a comedian first, jour...
Beginning as a straightforward melodrama about an abducted child, Dearest, the new film from Peter Ho-Sun Chan, spirals off in several directions to the point w...
Pulpy, violent, exploitative and trashy, The Salvation harkens back to the spaghetti Western era before the genre became introspective with the likes of Unforgi...
Following the leads, pushing for the truth, and refusing to back down are the qualities that distinguish the great news journalists from everyone else. In Micha...
The year is 1945. An opening title card states that “every man, woman and child” have been mobilized to kill the Allies. David Ayer’s latest film, Fury, spends ...
Zipping through its six unconnected stories, Wild Tales is a mix of Buñuel-ian absurdism and violent black comedy, subtly raising issues of sexual and national ...
Sometimes cinema’s depiction of vampires feels stuck in the Victorian era, with a dangerously seductive Dracula-type awakening equally dangerous sexual desire i...
Let’s just admit it up front: every religion has interesting, funny, good-hearted folks that are trying to make the world a better place. In fact, I’m willing t...
