An intense focus on globalization connects three strands at the core of the Elemental. although the broader theme is we are all connected by virtue of starting ...
A film like Tai Chi Zero makes one wonder how far a wink and a smile can take you. Within 94 minutes one hurtles from irrational fast-paced action to droll dram...
Allow me to evoke the great Tom Petty once more: the waiting is the hardest part. The Paranormal Activity “brand”-- because at this point they aren’t movies, s...
Amongst the many reasons that David Fincher directed Zodiac, his painstakingly methodical and precise look into the investigation of the Zodiac killer, was to k...
The title Paul Williams: Still Alive is either the meanest or the most life-affirming in recent documentary history, and after watching Stephen Kessler’s film a...
In Robert Zemeckis’ first non-CG film since Cast Away, the much-adored Hollywood director tackles the serious issue of substance abuse with the dramatic backdro...
Miguel Gomes's Tabu, one of the year's true incarnations of movie magic, is an irresistible tailspin into a world that covers everything from an old woman's gam...
Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is one of the most divisive novels ever written with equal numbers hailing her Objectivist manifesto as Bible or deriding it as blasph...
That-guy actor Martin Papazian goes for dramatic gravitas in his directorial debut Least Among Saints and finds more success than not in the process. Wanting to...
Let's face it, I haven't thoroughly enjoyed a straight Happy Madison production -- I exclude Apatow's and Binder's because they would have probably been made wi...
