In a summer overstuffed (and fluffed) with superhero sagas and crude comedies, I was eager to take in this simpler tale of a silly old bear. Tapping into th...
Academy Award-winning documentarian Errol Morris is known for fearlessly tackling controversy in his films, from Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuch...
Paradoxes abound in Battlefield Heroes, a South Korean film showing at the New York Asian Film Festival. Even the title itself, an English slap-on as Americ...
This year’s New York Asian Film Festival was graced with the North American premiere of a film almost three decades in the making. The critically acclaimed...
What is the point of giving Zookeeper a rating? There really is none. The people who want to see it will see it, the kids who its aimed for will eat up the...
A Boy and His Samurai (Chonmage Purin/ちょんまげぷりん) follows a tried-and-true comedic formula: take someone from the past, stick them in the future, and laugh al...
Director Jonathan English leads the charge in Ironclad, an earnest action flick that aims to blend historical gravitas with gruesome battle damage. But once...
As the most telling quote of Machete Maidens Unleashed! exclaims, “The stories are 10 times better than the actual films”. The anecdotes and memories of tho...
Last December I deemed Catherine Breillat’s postmodern Bluebeard one of my favorite films of the year. So I was eager to see what the quirky French director w...
I had such high hopes. Between Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, and Charlie Day being the leads, Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, and Jennifer Aniston the support...
