Saying Dodookdeul is the Korean Ocean's 11—like I had been after reading the synopsis—ended up not being as hyperbolic as I originally thought. Coming from one...
Each era has its film movement. Millennials found theirs with mumblecore, its chicly boring indie nature reflecting the confusion of a well-educated yet directi...
A tale about family, its many definitions and its discovery through the prism of an unstable time, Marianne Fredriksson's international bestseller Simon och eka...
In an ironic way, Not Fade Away is perhaps most interesting when it's explicitly referencing the small-screen roots of its writer-director, Sopranos honcho Davi...
Opening next week, Seven Psychopaths contains a scene that sums up the MacGuffin driving Taken 2 – Sam Rockwell ponders the a validity of “an eye for an eye," c...
Butter, directed by Jim Field Smith, begins brave and strong, like so many pieces of satire. And while it does form into a pleasantly light, sweet-hearted exami...
The Oranges, the feature directorial debut of Julian Farino (producer of HBO’s Entourage), operates within a setting so brutally common within the world of the ...
Life of Pi, Ang Lee's gallant, visually overwhelming adaptation of Yann Martel's bestseller, takes a little while to get going. The animals-are-precious opening...
A suitably grim atmosphere, an invested lead and a lack of a knowing wink are what Solomon Kane has going for it. That may scare people away from this sword-and...
When watching a film made more than four decades ago, there is a tendency to think that some of the atmosphere and intensity might be lost. After all, horror fi...
