An essential documentary given the dominance of headlines chronicling a new heroin epidemic, Laura Naylor’s The Fix, currently screening at AFI Docs, is a simpl...
If you've ever dabbled in theoretical physics--or watched The Big Bang Theory--you've probably heard of Schrödinger's Cat. The cat that's simultaneously dead an...
A Coffee in Berlin, also known by the name Oh Boy, is calm, cool and collected, a black and white German indie thats as much French New Wave as it is early Rich...
Lullaby is the kind of film that’s best described as a having been cobbled together from an indie scrapyard. Written and directed by first-time filmmaker Andrew...
There’s not a single frame of Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s 22 Jump Street that isn’t acutely aware of its own status as a lazy, cash-grabbing sequel, but after ...
I can still remember those childhood movie moments that forever solidified my love of the cinema. They were found, unsurprisingly, in pictures we would describe...
In crafting a series of gripping, mature dramas, the releases from Australia's Blue-Tongue Films have certainly left a stamp on independent cinema in recent yea...
In Five Star, a film about a teenage boy named John (John Diaz) whose gangster father was killed by a “stray bullet,” John “Primo” Grant, a member of the Bloods...
One of the first real stunners of the year has arrived with Kat Candler's heart-wrenching drama Hellion. Much like last year's Short Term 12, this is a feature-...
What if you could go all Inception on The Bad Seed, or mind-meld with Damien from The Omen? I suspect it was a theoretical mash-up along these lines that served...
