Focus Features | USA | 107 mins
There's never a moment in Noah Baumbach's new film in which we openly root for Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), the film's...
Certainly, by all accounts, the best film ever made about a hot tub time machine, this is a dumb, dirty, disastrously-made comic gem that finds a sloppy bal...
Shrek and Kung Fu Panda can step aside, Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders have delivered the best Dreamworks animation with How To Train Your Dragon. The story is one of a familiar mold, but the way it is delivered is impeccable....
I hold Atom Egoyan in high esteem above most filmmakers, for a deeply personal reason in that we share an Armenian heritage. As a filmmaker myself, I look up to him as both a role model and established auteur with an impressive body of work that has reflected themes of memory, identity and perception that I often connect with. ...
In his first feature-length documentary, director Jason Spingarn-Koff explores the growing virtual community of Second Life in Life 2.0. This virtual online world is accessed daily by hundreds of thousands of users from around the world, where they use avatars to assume alternate personas. Assuming his own avatar, Spingarn-Koff immerses himself in this alternate landscape, and reveals to us how quickly the lines between reality and virtual reality can be blurred....
Repo Men is nothing but self-aware. It never loses sight of its B-movie style, it embraces it. The first and last act, especially the climax, actually makes this stand apart from the rest of the high concept films out there. It's bloody, silly, competently made, and, at times, even ambitious....
Paramount Pictures | USA | 104 mins
Romantic comedies, of the R-rated raunchy varietal, are nearly a dime a dozen these days. The hero comes in with some han...
So it is that despite the middling reviews and unnecessarily cult-like Robert Pattinson fandom, Remember Me, directed by the very capable Allen Coulter (Hollywoodland), is a simple, well-made love story about two young, tortured souls and the families that torture them....
