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[SXSW Review] Somebody Up There Likes Me

Many a Whit Stillman character has pondered if people really change. In Barcelona it’s argued that you can’t change, but you can change your context. Somebody U...

[Review] The Raven

After making a splash with his directorial debut, V for Vendetta,  James McTeigue's follow-up Ninja Assassin left much to be desired. With his third feature, Th...

[SXSW Review] Eating Alabama

A running theme in SXSW is urbanites returning to the land. Either that or as sometimes happens when you’re seeing 3-6 screenings a day, unconscious themes neve...

[SXSW Review] Fat Kid Rules the World

After Jacob Wysocki's shining performance in the title role of Terri, Azazel Jacobs’ story of an overweight loner’s unlikely friendship with his principal, he i...

[Review] Silent House

Silent House is the kind of movie that will likely divide views along a pretty solid line. However, whereas many films would divide people along the lines of "l...

[Review] Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

I'd be remiss if I didn't explain the two most pressing points about Salmon Fishing in the Yemen right up front. Yes, they do get salmon in the Yemen, and of co...

[Review] Footnote

Joseph Cedar's Footnote, winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and one of four runners-up to Asghar Farhadi's A Separation for th...

[Review] John Carter

There is a whole lot going on in filmmaker Andrew Stanton's live-action feature debut John Carter, a very big budget adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' tale A ...

[Review] 21 Jump Street

Screenwriters Michael Bacall and Jonah Hill made the right move when they decided their 21 Jump Street would be a continuation of the original television series...

[Review] The Lorax

I loved The Land Before Time when I was a kid. It was a cute story with memorable characters in a world full of dinosaurs that utterly fascinated me. I remember...