“Question those who offer you simple solutions to big and complex problems,” advises one student speaking to his peers at a protest. Throughout At Berkeley, dir...
There was something off with 2011's Thor: while many believe Iron Man 2 was nothing but an evolutionary bridge for its hero to move closer towards what The Aven...
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology is a rather challenging film to review; like his other, rather useful The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (and his collaborations with...
The great Gene Siskel famously had a test a film with this stellar of a cast would have to pass: is it more interesting than watching a documentary of these act...
The Broken Circle Breakdown may yield only a single moment of genuine subversion, but one can at least appreciate it having arrived with the very first image: a...
The blockbuster season has now officially passed, and gone with it are the nauseating evocations of the September 11th terrorist attacks that were present in so...
Capital, accomplished filmmaker Costa-Gavras' new film set within the world of corporate finance, is a fast-paced, cynical piece of entertainment that serves as...
I’ve never read a novel by Jack Kerouac—the only Beat Generation tome I have leafed through is William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch—but I imagine the experience is...
Do not watch the trailer for writer-director Sandra Nettelbeck’s Last Love (formerly Mr. Morgan’s Last Love). For many that shouldn’t be a problem because, like...
If tasked with finding any consistent, recurring motif in the ever-expanding Ridley Scott canon, one -- even an admirer -- might be inclined to admit that it ge...
