If Daniel Radcliffe is hoping for an acting life after Harry Potter, he might want to be choosier than this…
Like Cassavetes in the sticks, this Mount Vernon indie was self-financed and shot by Jennifer Shainin and Randy Walker using…
Young gun director Jason Kohn taps into the evil-genius ecosystem of supply and demand run amok in Manda Bala, his…
Wolfgang Amadeus gets lionized—and somewhat embalmed—in this solemn Festschrift by British filmmaker Phil Grabsky. At two hours plus, In Search…
Based on a 2000 novel by then–University of Michigan prof Charles Baxter, Feast of Love transposes the setting from an…
To some, the story of Christopher Johnson McCandless, the 24-year-old Emory University graduate who starved to death in the Alaskan…
First, the 16 mm New Wave; then the Super-8 No Wave; and now, an American film movement, based on digital…
In the program guide for SIFF this spring, the official description of Vanaja was deceptive. The summary claimed the film…
Based on a 2004 New York Times Magazine article about the sex-trafficking business and starring a very straight-faced Kevin Kline,…
Michael Douglas is a mental patient on the loose, out to liberate Spanish gold buried beneath a Costco—or maybe a…
Just a guess here, but the majority of Amanda Bynes fans probably didn’t get most of the Shakespeare references in…
No matter how awesome the view of Earth from space, nor how thrilling the liftoff of those thundering giant rockets…
Inland Empire‘s Justin Theroux pops his directorial cherry with this obnoxious Sundance throwaway, a by-the-numbers romantic comedy that mistakenly believes…
For better or for worse, the year’s true movie season now begins in September, as Hollywood studios and indies alike…
When 16-year-old Finn (Anton Yelchin) gets busted scoring drugs for his coke-snorting, alcoholic masseuse of a mother (Diane Lane), Mom…
What’s a rural Japanese town do when the coal mine closes? Why, build a Hawaiian-themed tourist attraction, of course. It’s…
In 1968—a year that seems surprisingly ancient when viewed through Deep Water‘s faded, sleepy shots of English coastal towns—the Sunday…
Simon (Richard Gere) and Duck (Terrence Howard) are hot-shit reporters in the hot zone, drinking and carousing their way through…
The crisis in Darfur—the slaughter of 400,000 black African citizens by the Arab-led Sudanese government and its Janjaweed militia—compels the…
For fans of cute-kid docs like Spellbound and Mad Hot Ballroom, Summercamp!, which follows a group of Wisconsin nature-campers around…
