By Miles Trahan
In the age of Judd Apatow, the American comedy film has undergone something of a renaissance. It seems more so now than through the entir...
Judd Apatow’s (The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up) latest film Funny People is his best film to date (directed or otherwise). It reverses the standard “Apat...
By Miles Trahan
What’s South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook been doing since 2003’s Old Boy? Getting in touch with his feminine side. Beginning with 200...
Funny People is Judd Apatow's most profound and funniest work to date. Most films are inept of achieving this level of emotional and comedic grandeur. It st...
Adam is a simplistic story that succeeds thanks to two excellent lead performances. Sweet, well told, and refreshing uncynical. With the recent wave of crap...
Anything Park Chan-Wook creates is guaranteed to be unique, brilliant, and very twisted at a minimum. Well, anything that isn’t I’m a Cyborg at least. Park’s newest film titled THIRST is a vampire romance-erotic-thriller-dark comedy-drama -- yes, that is a lot of adjectives -- inspired by the 19th century French novel by Emile Zola titled Therese Raquin. Park creates a uniquely Korean, and uniquely Park, vision of the vampire mythos and asks the audience to explore the dilemma of a Catholic priest discovering himself having a thirst for blood and the moral and spiritual crisis that would develop. Park delivers on the elements you would hope but definitely falls short of masterpiece quality like Oldboy or even that of Lady Vengeance. Heavily bloated with a narrative that often loses itself much less the audience, THIRST desperately needed another trip through the cutting room. It crawls when it should be running but luckily brings it back home before losing the audience completely. As negative as it may sound the positives definitely outweigh the negatives and another volume has without a doubt been added to the dark and twisted Zeitgeist of Park Chan-Wook film....
Orphan, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, is one of those horror films that earns more unintentional laughs than scares. It's a laugh-at film that will be pla...
The Ugly Truth is one of the average cliche romantic comedies that isn't funny and is more so annoying. Its predictable story is at the level of The Proposa...
Zack Snyder's anti-superhero epic was released back in March and was met with a rather mixed response. While many seemed unimpressed by Snyder's ambitious a...
500 Days of Summer is a wildly likable film that actually delivers on some originality. Marc Webb, in his impressive directorial debut shows us an admirable...
