There is something appealingly ambiguous about the story at the heart of Hateship Loveship. It goes through the paces and hangs itself on the narrative framewor...
Why do so many kid-friendly animated series race ahead in their character’s histories so they might tell stories about reluctant parents? When fashioning an eng...
Kevin Costner built his career as a movie star on one American Pastime. With Draft Day, directed by Ivan Reitman, we get the aged actor's continued attempt at a...
A sort-of counter-balance to Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, The Retrieval is the story of Will (Ashton Sanders) on the run from, and in collaboration with, w...
The road to action movie stardom is paved with as many missteps as successes. For every Rambo: First Blood, there’s a Cobra. For every Terminator, there’s a Com...
The reputation Lars von Trier's culled for himself in recent years has indeed been laid on thick, to the end that no more than a slight mention of world cinema’...
Rings of blinding light morph into the iris of a human eye in the opening to Jonathan Glazer’s stunning Under the Skin. Like much of the imagery that follows, t...
Despite the audience's embrace of their output, Marvel still hasn't released that "A"-quality film quite yet. Don't get me wrong, the universe they have created...
A guy walks into a bar in a sleepy suburban town, asks a girl where the nearest motel is; girl takes boy home and asks him to stay for good. Jessica Goldberg’s ...
Diego Luna’s Cesar Chavez is an entertaining history lesson, but not quite an exact biopic; the story restricts its focus to a five-year period, ending with the...
