Anyone even slightly versed in Hollywood lore knows that the scandals that make TMZ twitter are child’s play compared to…
The idea that addiction (drugs, alcoholism) is a disease is still scoffed at in some quarters, but what traction the…
“Lots of people hate anything that’s different,” says Cindy Green (Jennifer Garner) to her Pinterest/vision-board child Timothy (CJ Adams) while…
There’s a vague echo of John Waters’ Serial Mom in director Anne Renton’s The Perfect Family. But where Waters’ satiric…
Right from the start, this documentary lets viewers know there will be no easy answers to the questions it’s posing,…
Lean, fast-moving, and filled with brutally beautiful (or beautifully brutal) game-changing fight sequences, Gareth Evans’ Indonesian martial-arts film lives up…
Director Joshua Marston demonstrated his ability to sustain almost unbearable dramatic tension in his debut feature film, Maria Full of…
One of the goals of writer/director Alrick Brown’s Kinyarwanda, set in the midst of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, is…
“They should have been the band that went way beyond any of us who were influenced by them,” says Primus’…
Based on the true story of the collusion between British and Australian governments to illegally ship tens of thousands of…
There’s much to savor in director Patrick Takaya Solomon’s documentary about the life—but mainly the work—of the late Joseph Campbell,…
In heavily outlining the tragedies and injustices that befell the musically gifted older sister of Wolfgang “Amadeus,” writer/director René Féret…
Written and directed by New Orleans resident Harry Shearer, The Big Uneasy illustrates in detail what many folks intuited or…
After chambermaid Hélène (Sandrine Bonnaire) glimpses an American couple (Jennifer Beals and Dominic Gould) playing chess in the upscale Corsican…
“The circus is tough and beautiful,” says a talking head in Aaron Schock’s documentary on the small, struggling, family-owned Circo…
“Lemmy is the baddest motherfucker in the world,” exclaims Dave Grohl in this fawning new music doc. It’s a sentiment…
In Julie Taymor’s hands, Shakespeare’s The Tempest becomes a listless feminist parable. The duchess Prospera (Helen Mirren) has been forced…
Although now swathed in nostalgic longing/hipster appropriation, the art of burlesque was once a vibrant, multitiered cultural enterprise—escapist family entertainment…
Last fall saw the documentary Walt & El Grupo, about Walt Disney and a team of his most talented animators…
Adapted from Shahrnoush Parsipour’s novel of the same name, Women Without Men opens with an act of suicide and the…
Already a blogosphere punching bag for right-wing Christians, Creation—about Charles Darwin’s writing of On the Origin of Species—commits the sin…
By the time the brilliant fuck-up of a hero says to the heroine, “Why do you do that—say something super-smart…
Soul Power documents the three-day music festival that accompanied the iconic 1974 Muhammad Ali/George Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle” boxing…
