A Star in The East
Arriving in local theaters this week, The East is not only as good a thriller as you’ll find right now but also the latest...
Nocturnal Animals: Creatures of Darkness
Set in sunny Southern California and the backroads of Texas, Nocturnal Animals is nevertheless a piece of work that will chill you to your...
Colossal: Seoul Destroyer
Look, I get it. You don’t like Anne Hathaway. Her adorability seems overly calculated to you. She floats through too many films with an...
Mini Marvel
Movie fanboys, including me, were disappointed when Edgar Wright, the British cult director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End,...
Racing Dreams: You’ve Got a Fast Kart
How cool is it that we’ve had so many notable documentaries showing at our multiplexes lately? There’s even better news: Racing Dreams is the...
Well Drilled
I did something unusual while preparing to write my review of There Will Be Blood: I read everybody else's reviews.
Specifically, I read the ones...
The Joneses: Life Is a TV Commercial
You may have gotten your dose of movie satire last weekend at Kick-Ass. If that’s the case, I’m betting you had a better time...
Sacrificing Stars
The road to the remake of the 1973 pagan drama The Wicker Man was paved with good intentions, not to mention some formidable talent....
Annette: La La La Means I Love You
Leos Carax! You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting to write about this French filmmaker whose view of life and movies is...
School’s Out
Quam Odunsi was born in Chicago to Nigerian parents and raised mostly in his parents’ homeland.
His first feature film, Borland, takes place in a...
