A sporadically hard-selling homage to a cult hero from an overchronicled era, Radio Unnameable considers the career of Bob Fass,…
“You’re as free as the wind,” says Paul Exben (Romain Duris) to the son of a legal client to whom…
Anyone even slightly versed in Hollywood lore knows that the scandals that make TMZ twitter are child’s play compared to…
Reportedly inspired by a violent mugging experienced by writer/director Ciarán Foy, this hopelessly muddled horror movie takes place in a…
Sulky indie drama might not have been the best path through a story of mushroomers in a troubled marriage; that…
“I can’t think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to…
Tolstoy’s family epic has been smartly contoured to fit just more than two hours of screen time by Sir Tom…
If you took the fighting out of The Fighter, David O. Russell’s previous movie, you’d be left with a close,…
If you don’t have the patience for Cloud Atlas‘ six plots in three hours, how about two in two? This…
A stacked-deck theological inquiry filtered through a spectacular Titanic-by-way-of-Slumdog Millionaire narrative, Life of Pi manages occasional spiritual wonder through its…
A decade’s fretting and futzing, and the few ecstatic moments rendered along the way, are compressed into 77 minutes in…
The demolished buildings of Salvador, Brazil, are substrates for public art to one native son. Bel Borba, a mixed-media artist…
Equating teens and animals has long been a handy horror-cinema way to tackle pubescent sexual development. So with its most…
Unclassifiable, expansive, and breathtaking, Leos Carax’s Holy Motors stars Denis Lavant, the simian, sinewy actor who played the lead in…
The way to a queen’s heart is through Rousseau in A Royal Affair, in which church and state oppression can’t,…
The first few minutes of Lincoln (review) play out like a parody of the expectations of Steven Spielberg’s detractors. The Great…
It begins as an ordinary, if bittersweet, family event. The 98-year-old grandmother of Israeli filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger has died, and…
The invaluable American independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke (1919–1997) once said: “There is no real difference between a traditional fiction film…
American filmmaker Caveh Zahedi professes to know nothing about Sharjah, one of the United Arab Emirates, when he accepts a…
The Parc Safari in Hemmingford, Quebec, is, per its website, home to 500 animals of 75 different species; its goal…
