After directing Jeff Bridges to a Best Actor Oscar with 2009’s safe, humble, crowd-pleasing Crazy Heart, it’s admirable for writer-director Scott Cooper to turn...
Sometimes a well-written story is all you truly need to make a successful film and I believe author Pascal Mercier's novel Night Train to Lisbon provides one. A...
In much the same way J.R. Hughto’s characters interact with one another in made-up dialogue with fictitious personas used to record “rehearsal” conversations or...
After a long journey dating back to 2010, director Craig Lahiff finally has his Australian crime thriller Swerve arriving in American theaters. It took a year t...
To disclose my feelings on Thirty Seconds to Mars off the bat, I'm a huge fan of the band. When "Capricorn (A Brand New Name)" hit the radio waves, I was sold—n...
I admit I’m unfamiliar with Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity, a libretto that serves as the source material for Fox Searchlight's latest release, but I have a fe...
When Kathleen Hanna is shown sitting at her home discussing her exit from fronting Le Tigre, she says, “I felt I had said everything I wanted to say.” It’s the ...
Coming hot off the heels of the original's 10-year anniversary, Spike Lee's remake of Chan-wook Park's Oldboy may succeed in swaying domestic audiences unfamili...
Over half a century in the making, Disney’s adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen has finally made it to the big screen. It was 1943 when Walt ...
For a certain type of moviegoer, the on-paper credentials of Homefront are undeniably encouraging: written by Sylvester Stallone (whose initial intentions here ...
