Reviews

[SXSW Review] Chef

How close is too close to home? That has to be the question going through the mind of anyone familiar with the last decade of Jon Favreau’s career while watchin...

[Review] Repentance

Set in gothic New Orleans, the first act of Repentance seems to offer more than its second and third acts deliver. One has to give director Philippe Caland poin...

[Review] Awful Nice

Homer Simpson once described Branson, the setting for Todd Sklar’s Awful Nice, as “Vegas run by Ned Flanders.”  With that said, like the Cedar Rapids of Miguel ...

[Review] Blood Glacier

Blood Glacier boldly announces itself before running through a list of familiar horror movie tropes. A team of scientists led by the burly and morose Janek (Ger...

[Review] The Face of Love

Melodramatic confrontations and unrelenting wistfulness fills Arie Posin’s inept film, The Face of Love. Annette Bening stars as a widow named Nikki who, severa...

[Review] Particle Fever

Science! You either see it as the backbone to understanding or you don't, and everyone who doesn't, may want to avoid Mark Levinson's Particle Fever because it'...

[Review] The Grand Budapest Hotel

A funny thing happened at some point in these past few years: Wes Anderson became embraced once more. While America’s tidiest teller of tragicomic stories had n...

[Review] 300: Rise of an Empire

This is what a copy of a copy looks like. It pretends to be equal to the original—and in some aspects proves to be exactly the same—yet arrives seven years afte...

[Review] The Wind Rises

Hayao Miyazaki, the great Japanese animator and founder of the prestigious Studio Ghibli, has teased retirement from feature films for over a decade. Now, that ...