Monsieur Lazhar: Bonjour, Classe
The French-Canadian drama Monsieur Lazhar was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this past year, and there were observers who tipped...
Reactor Reanimation
Chernobyl Diaries has all the makings of a great horror movie: a wholly original and sinister setting, engaging historical backstory, creepy Eastern European dudes...
Marigold Hotel: Indian Summer
We’ve all seen movies about British people who travel abroad to find their true selves. There is no shortage of examples, from the pretty...
Filming Mystics with Mark Hanshaw
Mark Hanshaw doesn’t sound like a filmmaker. Instead of talking in sales pitches, this professor of religion at Texas Wesleyan University is happy to...
The Not-So-Great Dictator
I jumped the gun on calling this once before, but now it truly appears that Sacha Baron Cohen has become too famous to keep...
What to Expect: Friends with Kids
Ah, the advice-book movie! The last 10 years have seen a trend of Hollywood piggybacking off the popularity of self-help books through similarly titled...
Dark Shadows: Angelique Diabolique
It takes peculiar talent to make the Goth crowd laugh. Back in 1988, Tim Burton did just that with Beetlejuice, which marked him as...
Girl in Progress: All About My Mother
And still no one has discovered a reliable way to draw Latino audiences to movie theaters the way Tyler Perry has been able to...
Avengers: Hammer and SHIELD
Joss Whedon looks poised to become the king of American pop culture, and I don’t mind it one bit. Having already established himself as...
Five Years Too Long?
A few years ago, the films associated with Judd Apatow –– a handful he wrote and directed himself and several others he produced ––...
